Promoting Community Preparedness and Resilience: A Latino Immigrant Community-Driven Project Following Hurricane Sandy

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• Personal Author:
  Baron, Sherry L. ; Cuervo I ; Leopold L
• Description:
  As community residents and recovery workers, Latino immigrants play important roles after disasters, yet are rarely included in preparedness planning. A community-university-labor union partnership created a demonstration project after Hurricane Sandy to strengthen connections to disaster preparedness systems to increase community resilience among Latino immigrant communities in New York and New Jersey. Building ongoing ties that connect workers and community based organizations with local disaster preparedness systems provided mutual benefits to disaster planners and local immigrant communities, and also had an impact on national disaster related initiatives. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Emergency Responders Emigration And Immigration Men Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Staff Development Women Workplace
• Keywords:
  Disaster Clean-up Disaster Recovery Humans Immigrant Workers Natural Disasters Racial Factors Rescue Workers Sociological Factors Training Work Environment Workers

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• ISSN:
  0090-0036
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  107
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20050447
• Citation:
  Am J Public Health 2017 Sep; 107(S2):S161-S164
• Contact Point Address:
  Isabel Cuervo, PhD, Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment, Queens College, City University of New York, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Remsen Hall 311, Flushing, NY 11367
• Email:
  icuervo@qc.cuny.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• Performing Organization:
  Queens College, New York
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20130930
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Public Health
• Supplement:
  S2
• End Date:
  20150929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0e65d29ebd0b077f49ee615269ef92c0dc8e0c69b0f1fcd1cae45fb52593ce24f3c87133da92099f4765a467d209054980a3c6ab81a10cc40dcf0a70b7318ce4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/210781/cdc_210781_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 572.41 KB ]