California

California AgrAbility staff presented Question, Persuade and Refer (QPR) Gatekeeper suicide prevention training in Spanish at the 8th annual Latino Farmer Conference in San Diego, California. This event continues to gain traction with Latino farmers and this year's event brought together around 200 Latino farmers, agricultural experts, and service providers. Colleagues from Farm Aid and WRASAP staffed an information booth with resources to support farmers and address farm stress in both Spanish and English.

California AgrAbility's Esmeralda Mandujano presented at the AgrAbility Regional Workshop in Reno, Nevada. Esmeralda's presentation, "Applications of Cultural Humility in WRASAP and AgrAbility Service Delivery", highlighted two approaches to engage with community members as service representatives: one being cultural competence, and the other cultural humility, with the latter being an expansion of the former. The presentation explored the difference between the two approaches and how they could be used to develop rapport between the service provider, farmer and farmworker.

Submitted by Angelina Padilla