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Recruiting Chapters for Community Outreach Initiative - Thank you to all of you who came to our breakout session at the APAMSA National Conference this past October. We shared some exciting projects from APAMSA chapters from across the country and sparked some great discussion and feedback from the audience. This workshop was the first of its kind for the National Conference, and [...]
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Affordable Health Care Act - Did you know? Did you know that 20% of Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders (NHOPIs), and 17% of Asian Americans (AAs), are uninsured? That’s higher than the national uninsurance rate of 16%. Did you know that 30-31% of Korean-Americans are uninsured? That’s as high as the national uninsurance rate for Hispanic-Americans and Native Americans. [...]
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Community Outreach Initiative (Region VI) Spotlight: MCW’s Hmong Health Education Program - APAMSA Chapter: Medical College of Wisconsin (Region VI – Milwaukee, WI) Project: Hmong Health Education Program Project Description: A multimedia, community-based approach to providing health education to Wisconsin’s underserved Hmong communities. Annual activities include the broadcast of six 1-hr talk shows and 72 public service announcements on eight Hmong radio stations throughout Wisconsin, as well as 24 in-person health education lectures. Activities focus on [...]
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Census 2010: Door-to-Door Campaign to Continue to Mid-July - Census workers get ready for door-to-door count By DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press Writer Deepti Hajela, Associated Press Writer Sat May 1, 7:31 pm ET NEW YORK – It sounds simple enough. Knock on some doors, ask some questions, get some answers. But for the more than 600,000 people going door-to-door to reach those who haven’t mailed [...]
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Census 2010: What APAMSA Can Do - The 2010 Census arrived in the mailboxes of more than 120 million households. Is your community ready? We are asking leaders nationwide to take part in the Take 10 Challenge – Inspire your constituents to take 10 minutes to fill out and mail back their 2010 Census forms. Here’s what you can do: 1. CHALLENGE [...]
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Affordable Health Care Act - Did you know? Did you know that 20% of Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders (NHOPIs), and 17% of Asian Americans (AAs), are uninsured? That’s higher than the national uninsurance rate of 16%. Did you know that 30-31% of Korean-Americans are uninsured? That’s as high as the national uninsurance rate for Hispanic-Americans and Native Americans. [...] Read more...
Census 2010: Door-to-Door Campaign to Continue to Mid-July - Census workers get ready for door-to-door count By DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press Writer Deepti Hajela, Associated Press Writer Sat May 1, 7:31 pm ET NEW YORK – It sounds simple enough. Knock on some doors, ask some questions, get some answers. But for the more than 600,000 people going door-to-door to reach those who haven’t mailed [...] Read more...
