Hispanic Health Projects HHP creates educational and documentary videos by and for the local Hispanic community.

Cooking with Sylvia

Prevention through diet

Based on research that has been done since 1999

Created to bring further awareness to the community about the illnesses that are affecting them the most

Created to give health workers in the Hispanic Community a deeper understanding about the way illness are perceived in the Mexican Culture

Participants from the community spoke openly about their initial understanding of the disease, their understanding of it now, and what they are doing in their life to prevent the disease from happening to them and their family

Clinical Approach

Hispanic Health Projects Video Productions

videos and their importance in the community

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A Local Participant in our latest video, “The Many Faces of Diabetes”

Local participants are interviewed for each video

Videos are used by health promatoras in their in-home educational visits and in local hospitals and clinics.

The Videos help open up dialogue between the health promatoras and the participant

Personal look at diabetes and the effects it has on the individuals living with it.

research done by HHP in conjunction with the Idaho Health and Welfare Department was used to show that if left untreated it could cause further complications such as blindness, kidney failure and amputation.

Through the stories of the participants in the video the emotional side of diabetes was addressed as well the complications that arise from the disease.

Hispanic Health Projects Teen Program

This year, HHP is beginning a new program entitled, “El Mundo en Tus Manos/The World is in Your Hands”

Idaho State University Club, H.A.L.O. posing for our promotional poster

El Mundo en Tus Manos/The World is in Your Hands teaches local teens:

Documentary Filmmaking

Documentary Photography

Graphic Arts

After learning all the techniques teens will:

Create their own multi media project about a problem facing Hispanic Teens in their area

First Workshop with new Teen Program

Juana, a participant in our first workshop with teens listens and records as a fellow teen tells a narrative story

HHP held our first teen workshop in December 2007 in which teens:

Used images we provided to create a photo essay

Wrote a narrative story to go with the images

Recorded their story in both Spanish and English

Created a Narrative Photo Essay using Final Cut Pro

Teens prepare to say their narrative in Spanish

First Workshop with new Teen Program

The Future of Hispanic Health Projects

Is with our teens of today

Is in the lessons we learn from each other

Is in the understanding that there are different models of education

Is in knowing that we can use different media to promote the message

Is in the knowledge that we must first listen to what the community needs before we can begin to help!

Hispanic Health Projects Growing a Healthy Community

Children from the American Falls Community participate in a free dental program provided by Idaho State University Dental

Program and Hispanic Health Projects

Aerobics - Deb Mitchell

Computer Classes - Sergio Mendez

Cooking Classes - Silvia Herrera

Saturday Clinics - Betty Pedroza

Video Production - Mary Anne Benner

Entire HHP Program - Dr. Elizabeth Cartwright