Immigration and Health Seminar Educates the Hispanic Community

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Moline’s American Red Cross will be presenting an educational seminar about health and immigration with expert speaking on these topics.  The seminar will take place at the Moline Township, 620 18th St., in Moline on Sunday, May 25th, starting at 8:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m.  Before the seminar there will be free diabetes and high blood pressure screenings taking place at 7 a.m.
and there will also be a continental breakfast for those who take advantage of this opportunity.  It is required to not eat or drink anything 12 hours before the screening.  The event is coordinated by Teresa Camarillo, who in the past planned educational seminars for many years while working for the City of Moline.

“Now more than ever there is a need for us to be informed due to the problematic situations that are taking place in many places that affect Hispanics,” said Teresa Camarillo, “such as health, economy, politics, and immigration especially.”

The topics that will be discussed that affect the Hispanic community include diabetes, heart disease, and how colonoscopies can save lives; Laura Raya, Immigration Program Coordinator of Diocese of Davenport, will discuss new immigration laws.

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“I would like for everyone to be informed on the latest changes in immigration [policies] so that the current changes for obtaining citizenship can be explained to us,” says Camarillo.

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There will also be presentations from the Moline Township which offers services such as monthly food baskets and free eyeglasses assistance, Trinity Health Systems will talk about the services available in their hospitals, and Moline’s Red Cross offices will talk about the disaster services they provide.  Their mission is to help people, respond to disasters, prepare, for and respond to emergencies.  Their offices also offer CPR classes in Spanish, child care classes, first aid classes, water safety classes, and volunteer opportunities.  Recently they created a committee to better reach the Hispanics in the area.

“We want to let the Latino/Hispanic community to know that our services are also available to them,” said Betsy Pratt, CEO of Moline’s Red Cross Chapter. “The Hispanic partner committee was developed to help provide council, advice to chapter employees to the best way to reach out to the Hispanic community and to the best way to reach out to become volunteers.”

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This seminar is part of a bigger campaign coordinated by Teresa Camarillo to better inform the Hispanic community on the topics that are important in this seminar.

“Statistics prove that we Hispanics are more vulnerable to diabetes, and we’re the least likely to get colonoscopies,” said Mrs. Camarillo.  “With this seminar, we can realize the importance of these topics.”

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For more information, contact Coordinator Teresa Camarillo at (309) 762-3214.

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