Cambio de Colores

Latinos in Missouri: Gateway to a New Community

Proceedings of the 2004 annual conference
Including selected papers from 2003

Editor's note
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Edited by Stephen Jeanetta and Corinne Valdivia
Cambio Center

Cambio de Colores as a yearly event aims to strengthen the networks of community organizers, extension professionals, academics, and public and private-sector institutions focused on communities that are changing as a result of newcomer settlements, seeking to facilitate the integration of Latinos in the Midwest.

The 2004 conference included discussions in five major areas:

Change and Well-being, which addresses topics of economic, social and political change, and its effect on well-being.
Youth, Family and Community, focusing on issues of family and youth welfare and community development as newcomer families integrate into the communities where they settle.
Civil Rights, which addresses a broad set of topics, from racial profiling at the state and community levels, federal immigration policy and the perspectives of the state, and basic issues such as knowing your rights.
Health, which includes both mental and physical health issues such as access to services, cultural competencies, disparities, and provision of services.
Education, which spans early childhood to higher education, addressing access to education, approaches and best practices, as well as cultural competencies.

This publication includes abstracts, as well as extended papers, on some of the topics discussed during the 2003 and 2004 Cambio de Colores conferences. Also included is a list of participants.

Session summaries and abstracts

Change and well-being

Hidden Within the Melting Pot: Hispanics in 1970 St. Louis
Ann M. Rynearson
Latinos in St. Louis Today
Daryl J. Hobbs
New Latino Farmers in the U.S. Heartland: An Example of a Growing Trend in U.S. Agriculture
Juan Marinez and Victor Garcia
Bridging and Bonding Social Capital in Communities with Latin In-Migrants
Cornelia Flora and Jan Flora
Livelihoods, Vulnerabilities, and Opportunities in Rural Missouri
Pedro Dozi and Corinne Valdivia
Listening to Latino Business Owners
Gwen Richtermeyer
Financial Services and Assets Building among Latinos in Missouri
Margaret S. Sherraden
University Values -- An Obstacle to Embracing Diversity
Noor Azizan-Gardner
Traditional and Nontraditional Apprenticeship Programs
Don Reese and Kimberly Davis
Integration of Colombian Refugees in Existing Latino/a St. Louis Communities
P. Ariel Burgess
Latinos in Cherokee Street : Words, Images, and Text of an Emerging Group in St. Louis
Michael Armijo
The Experience of the Amigos Program in St. Charles
Lyndel Porterfield, Robert Hoeynck, and Francisco (Paco) Martinez
(written by Adelante staff)

Education

Recruitment and Retention Issues in Higher Education
Lorenzo Covarrubias, Ana Pizarro, Ismael Batancourt, and Hortencia Kayser
Enrolling Higher Education Faculty in Research and Education for the Latino Immigrant Population
Laurence Kaptain
The Community in the ELL Classroom and the ELL Classroom in the Community
Sandra Anderson
Family Education Programs which Provide Parent Outreach Support to Become Active Participants in Children Education
Judy R. Shreves

Youth, families and communities

Mechanisms of Acculturation for Hispanic Immigrants: Family-Planning Exchanges, Attachments, and Bridges
Anne Dannerbeck, Marjorie Sable, and Jim Campbell
Disaster Preparedness Outreach for Hispanic Populations in Missouri
Sherry F. Nelson
Central Campesino -- Housing Migrant Workers
Ann Ziebarth

Health

Cultural Factors Affecting Reproductive Health Care Decisions of Hispanic Latina Women
Ruthann M. Gagnon
Teaching Hispanic Couples the Creighton Model Fertility Care System to Achieve or Avoid Pregnancy Naturally: Experience for St. Louis and St. Charles Counties
Patricia A Rapplean
Perceptions of Health Care Quality: Does Culture Matter?
Christina Vasquez Case, Rex Campbell, Santosh Krishna, and E. Andrew Balas
Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions for Midwestern Hispanics: The 1992-2001 Treatment Episode Data Set
James Topolski
Use of Preventive Health Care for Latinos in Southwest Missouri
Suzanne Walker and Susan Dollar
Health Educational Interventions: Do They Work?
Santosh Krishna, Christina Vasquez Case, and E. Andrew Balas
Medical Training, Changing Demographics, and Latino Health Care: The Case of St. Louis University School of Medicine
Deborah Ayuste
Partnership to Improve Quality Care for Hispanic Seniors
Maria E. Carpenas and Glenda Meachum-Cain
The CLAS Challenge: Implementing the CLAS Guidelines National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care
Kym Hemley
Working with an Interpreter
Nicole Lopresti and Vicky Padilla

Civil rights

Understanding Consumer Rights: Recognizing and Preventing Consumer Fraud in Our Communities
Laura Krasser

Papers

2004

New Latino Farmers in the Midwest: The Case of Southern Michigan
Juan Marinez and Victor Garcia
Livelihoods, Vulnerabilities, and Opportunities in Rural Missouri
Pedro Dozi and Corinne Valdivia
Listening to Latino Business Owners
Gwen Richtermeyer
The Effects of Increasing Hispanic Presence on Cultural and Educational Interaction in Monett , Mo.
Jamaine Abidogun

2003

Police-Latino Community Relations: Addressing Challenges in Rural Communities
Leigh Culver
Missouri 's Efforts to Confront Racial Profiling
James Klahr
Impact of the U.S. Immigration Law on the Latino Workforce
Mira Mdivani
Counterterrorism and the Latino Community Since Sept. 11
Michele Waslin
Ensuring the Health of Women and Children in the 21 st Century
Kay Libbus
Demographic and Census Trends of Latinos in the Kansas City Area
Steven L. Driever
Communities of Practice (2004 conference)

Maps and tables

Map 1
Percent change in Latino population by county, 2002 to 2003
Map 2
Percent change in Latinos working in meat processing by county, 2000 to 2003
Map 3
Total number of Hispanic LEP students by county, 2003
Table 1
Disparity indexes in selected Missouri counties

Keywords

Immigration

Pages

DM7617, new March 2007