{"id":283,"date":"2016-03-24T18:07:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T18:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box2219.temp.domains\/~toxicfr2\/test\/?p=283"},"modified":"2016-03-24T18:07:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T18:07:14","slug":"march-2016-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/box2219.temp.domains\/~toxicfr2\/test\/march-2016-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2016 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got Food?\u00a0 Thank a Farmworker!\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Celebrate the 17th Annual National Farmworker Awareness Week<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Today kicks off National Farmworker Awareness week, which goes from March 24 \u2013 March 31!\u00a0 It is an exceptional opportunity to create awareness around issues that farmworkers face everyday, such as pesticide exposure, harsh working conditions, immigration issues, and perpetually low wages.\u00a0 Farmworkers are essential to feeding the world, something many of us take for granted everyday.\u00a0 They are especially crucial to North Carolina\u2019s number one, $78 billon agricultural industry and we have to take this time\u00a0to take action to support them<\/a>.\u00a0 If you know a farmworker, past or present, please thank and honor them this week, and throughout the year, for the hard and essential work they do providing fresh food for you and your family\u2019s table.<\/p>\n

Farmworkers in Western NC<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Farmworkers across the state face different problems based on the crops they work in, the geographic climate, and political climate of that region.\u00a0 Click here to read this wonderful blog <\/a>written by Toxic Free NC\u2019s intern, Brooke Eichenlaub, on issues facing Western NC farmworkers and what our supporters can do to take action to suppot them and their efforts to increase wages, improve housing conditions, and decrease pesticide exposures.<\/p>\n

IPM in Child Care, Southeastern North Carolina<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Continuing our outreach campaign to get providers and strategic partners on board with our\u00a0IPM: Plan and Policy<\/a>\u00a0initiative for child care, earlier this month we met with the Region\u2019s Environmental Health Inspectors and leadership at East Coast Migrant Head Start.<\/p>\n

The Environmental Health Inspectors, whose responsibilities include biannual inspections of pest control of child care centers, provided some great insight into how we can decrease exposure to pesticides in child care facilities. Mainly, there is not a formalized pesticide record-keeping procedure which leave the inspectors with an unclear picture of what pest management practices are being implemented. We were happy to report that our IPM policy we are moving child care centers to adopt requires and relies on much stronger communication and record-keeping. We let the Environmental Health Inspectors know that they can ask for the pesticide logs at centers that have our IPM certification sticker!<\/p>\n

We were also able to present at the Telamon Health Advisory Committee meeting, which included leadership from the Southeastern Migrant Head Starts. With farmworker children especially vulnerable to exposure to pesticides, it is a pleasure to work along side such dedicated individuals who help ensure their health and safety. Thanks again for the invite, and we look forward to seeing you at the next one!<\/p>\n

Educating Migrant Education on the revised Worker Protection Standards<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Last week, Toxic Free NC was asked to present on the revised WPS at the annual Migrant Education Program Outreach Worker Regional Conferences in Smithfield and Winston Salem alongside other program officials and the NC Department of Health and Human Services. \u00a0This presentation was crucial in educating outreach workers on the new standards, such as children under 18 not handling, mixing, or applying pesticides, so that they may identify potential violations<\/a> on outreach trips. \u00a0We had some great conversations concerning what outreach workers can do to increase enforcement efforts, how this effects the populations that they work with, and why the revised WPS is a crucial tool in decreasing workers\u2019 exposure to pesticides.\u00a0 We were so appreciative for the opportunity to speak and look forward to continuing the conversation with them and providing resources to help their clients and their community!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got Food?\u00a0 Thank a Farmworker!\u00a0 Celebrate the 17th Annual National Farmworker Awareness Week Today kicks off National Farmworker Awareness week, which goes from March 24 \u2013 March 31!\u00a0 It is an exceptional opportunity to create awareness around issues that farmworkers face everyday, such as pesticide exposure, harsh working conditions, immigration issues, and perpetually low wages.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[16,17,18,11],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletters","tag-agriculture","tag-farmworkers","tag-newsletter","tag-pesticides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/box2219.temp.domains\/~toxicfr2\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/box2219.temp.domains\/~toxicfr2\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/box2219.temp.domains\/~toxicfr2\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/box2219.temp.domains\/~toxicfr2\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/box2219.temp.domains\/~toxicfr2\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/box2219.temp.domains\/~toxicfr2\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"http:\/\/box2219.temp.domains\/~toxicfr2\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/box2219.temp.domains\/~toxicfr2\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/box2219.temp.domains\/~toxicfr2\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/box2219.temp.domains\/~toxicfr2\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/box2219.temp.domains\/~toxicfr2\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}