WHYY’s Latina Health Project Radio Series Examines Hispanic Women’s Health
WHYY, a public radio station serving Delaware, New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania, this week will air a four-part series on the health of local Hispanic women as part of its Latina Health Project. The segments will air June 24-27 during the station's broadcast of NPR's "Morning Edition." The following are synopses of each segment:
- The first part of the series features Project Salud of La Comunidad Hispana, a nurse-managed health center serving Puerto Rican and Mexican migrant farm workers. The center began to notice increasing numbers of workers settling in the community with their wives and children and thus became more family-oriented and expanded the kinds of services it provided.
- The second part of the series discusses the Lutheran Settlement House's Bilingual Domestic Violence Project, which for the first time received entries in Spanish for their annual art and writing contest to educate children about domestic violence. The segment features interviews with LSH Director Bia Vieira, BDVP Director Evelyn Anne Cunningham and students from the Potter-Thomas Spanish Bilingual School and George Washington Carver High School who participated in the contest.
- The third part of the series examines a lawsuit recently brought against two local hospitals in the predominantly Hispanic neighborhood of Bushwick in Brooklyn, N.Y., for allegedly failing to provide language services to their Spanish-speaking patients (Berliner, Latina Health Project, WHYY, 6/20). Under a federal guidance released Aug. 30, 2000, health care entities receiving federal funds must provide limited English proficiency persons with interpreters (Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, 2/28/01). The segment includes interviews with Carmen Paris, deputy health commissioner for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, and Jon Blazer, a lawyer with Community Legal Services.
- In the fourth segment, Ana Santoyo, Latino outreach coordinator for the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging and Mayra Palencia, Hispanic outreach worker for the senior advocacy organization CARIE, discuss the difficulties of encouraging Hispanic women to access social services. Many Latinas distrust public assistance programs, and some prefer to have their problems addressed in their own community.
Transcripts and audio clips of the segments will be available online after the broadcasts (Latina Health Project, WHYY, 6/20).
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