AgriSafe Network
A national membership organization, representing rurally-based
hospitals, health clinics, and county health departments that provide
preventive occupational health services for the farming community. One
of the few organizations focusing exclusively on the provision of health
and safety services to farmers and their families.
AgriWellness,
Inc.
Promotes accessible behavioral health services for underserved
and at-risk populations affected by rural crisis in agricultural communities.
Serves farmers, ranchers, farm workers and the associated farm business
community and their families.
Bureau
of Primary Health Care: Migrant Health Program
Provides grants to community nonprofit organizations
for a broad array of culturally and linguistically competent medical
and support services to migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families.
Canadian Agricultural
Injury Surveillance Program
A national program of the Canadian Agricultural Safety
Association (CASA). CAISP was established in 1995 in response to the
need for better information about fatal and hospitalized agricultural
injuries. Provides statistics and reports.
Canadian
Agricultural Safety Association
Established in response to a need for a national farm
safety networking and coordinating agency to address problems of illness,
injuries and accidental death in farmers, their families and agricultural
workers. Since then, its mission has been to improve the health and
safety conditions of those that live, and or, work on Canadian farms.
Center for Agricultural
and Rural Development (CARD)
Conducts innovative public policy and economic research
on agricultural, environmental, and food issues. CARD uniquely combines
academic excellence with engagement and anticipatory thinking to inform
and benefit society.Communication efforts target state and federal policymakers;
the research community; agricultural, food, and environmental groups;
individual decisionmakers; and international audiences.
Center for Food Security and Public Health
The CFSPH is a CDC Center for Public Health Preparedness and is the only Center to focus on veterinary medicine and zoonotic diseases. Located at Iowa State University,
the CFSPH has worked to increase awareness of bioterrorism, agroterrorism and foreign animal diseases among veterinarians, farmers, medical personnel and the general public.
Center for Health
Effects of Environmental Contamination (CHEEC)
Supports and conducts research to identify, measure and
prevent adverse health outcomes related to exposure to environmental
toxins. CHEEC organizes and participates in educational and outreach
programs, provides environmental health expertise to local, state and
federal entities, and serves as a resource to Iowans in the field of
environmental health.
Childhood Agricultural Safety Network
The Childhood Agricultural Safety Network (CASN) was formed to raise awareness and change behaviors to help keep children safer on the farm. The CASN is made up of child safety advocates that have banded together to produce marketing messages for the general public.
Children’s
Safety Network
Works with maternal and child health, public health,
and other injury prevention practitioners to provide technical assistance
and information, facilitate the implementation and evaluation of injury
prevention programs, and conduct analytical and policy activities that
improve injury and violence prevention.
