Latin Heritage Work Group
Welcome to our Latin Heritage Work Group!
Celebrating our foods, recipes and traditions
The Latin Heritage Work Group was officially consolidated in 2019. Its members have been past and current OSU employees who are bilingual / bicultural and already had ample expertise conducting programming in Spanish with Latin American audiences. This internal affinity group was born out of the desire from these employees to better serve the communities they represent utilizing culturally specific community engagement strategies as well as top quality culturally relevant resources.
Goals
- Provide culturally responsive technical assistance to projects that address the social determinants of health and/or policy, systems and environmental changes that impact Latin American communities in Oregon.
Brindar asistencia técnica culturalmente sensible a proyectos que aborden los determinantes sociales de la salud y/o políticas, sistemas y cambios ambientales que impacten a las comunidades latinoamericanas en Oregón. - Support the development, revision, and implementation of nutrition education resources in Spanish that are culturally appropriate for Latin American audiences.
Apoyar el desarrollo, asesoría, revisión e implementación de recursos de educación nutricional en español que sean culturalmente apropiados para audiencias latinoamericanas. - Identify culturally relevant foods and/or recipes to be tested and included in the Food Hero social marketing campaign.
Identificar alimentos y/o recetas culturalmente relevantes que puedan ser probadas e incluidas en la campaña de marketing social de Héroe de Alimentos.
Our projects
The Latin Heritage Work Group maintains a hefty list of projects. While some are ongoing and others have been completed successfully, the group operates under the premise that culturally responsive work is by nature in constant evolution and there is always room for improvement.
The list below includes a few of the projects where the group has provided technical assistance (including translation, review, adaptation, development and/or evaluation) since 2020:
- Growing Healthy Kids curriculum
- BEPA 2.0 Toolkit / Kit BEPA 2.0
- Video scripts for Oregon Harvest for Schools
- Oregon Bee Book
- Oregon Bee Project videos in Spanish
- Food Hero English – Spanish glossary
- Food Hero content in Spanish for social media channels (Facebook-Pinterest-YouTube)
- New Latin American recipes that will be included on Food Hero
- Food Hero monthly newsletters
- Community engagement strategies for Latin American audiences
Oregon Harvest for Schools Latinx
Growing, preserving and using herbs for traditional Latin dishes.
Our team
Members of the OSU Latin Heritage Work Group
Countries represented (since 2020)
Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, México, Panamá, Venezuela, United States
Latin Heritage Work Group co-leads
Current members
- Rosario Santana
- Lucy Lores Lezcano
- Yolanda Márquez
- Matilde Rodríguez Ortiz
- Beatriz Botello Salgado
- Diana Camacho-Figueroa
- Maria-Ximena Williams
- Maria Falcón
- Francis López
- Yolanda Rodríguez
- Lupita Zamora
- Carolina Muñiz
- Dalia McMullin
- Shannon LaFon
- Ellen Radcliffe
- Iris Carrera
- Sara Bautista Ortiz
- Jazmin Aguilar
Past contributors
- Zednia Linares
- Christopher Scadden
- Diana Cárdenas
- Belén Garrido
- Elena Illescas
- Patty Ortega-Flores
- Abraham Piok
Our partners
The Latin Heritage workgroup collaborates with community partners, government and non-profit agencies to expand our outreach throughout the state. These partnerships include:
- Oregon Child Development Coalition
- Latino Network
- Programa Hispano
- Guerreras Latinas
- Multnomah County Health Department
- Todos Juntos
- Centro Latino Americano
- Food for Lane County
- Migrant Education Program
- Arcoiris Cultural Center
- Conexión Fénix
- Hispanic Interagency Networking Team (HINT)
- Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center
- Centro Cultural Cornelius
- Community Action Organization
- Juntos Aprendemos
- Immigrant & Refugee Community Organization (IRCO)
- Providence Health & Services
- Salem/Keizer School District
- Northwest Human Services (NWHS)
- Marion, Polk Food Share Youth Farm (MPFS)
- Our Community Family Services, Inc
- Housing Authority Yamhill County
- Head Start
- WIC
- Catholic Community Services
- Familias en Acción
Resources
BEPA 2.0 Activity Take Home Sheets (in Spanish) - Help students play BEPA 2.0 activities at home with the Spanish instructions!
BE Physically Active 2Day (BEPA 2.0) is a classroom-based physical activity program for use in before, during, or after school settings, both indoors and outdoors.
Latin American Flavors poster - celebrating our recipes, foods and traditions.
Check out additional resources in the Food Hero Latin Heritage toolkit, including recipes, coloring pages, monthly magazines, posters, gardening tips, videos and a virtual classroom.
Food Hero Latin Heritage resources
Food Hero is an initiative of Oregon Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) program and was developed by Oregon State University Extension Service and funded jointly by OSU Extension Service, Oregon Department of Human Services, and the United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service.
Food Hero is organized into workgroups that inform programming at all levels – direct/indirect education; policy, systems, and environment (PSE); and social marketing through Food Hero. The cultural workgroups enhance Food Hero’s reach to communities that disproportionately experience health and resource disparities.