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Early 1960
The federal government began to formally support community health worker programs through the Federal Migrant Health Act of 1962 -
1960
In the 1960 community health workers began to emerge in the united states as part of the Great society domestic programs. The mission of the Great Society effort was to end poverty, promote equality, improve education, rejuvenate cities and protect the environment. -
Act of september 26
Another law added more exceptions to immigration restrictions by national quotas by categorizing international adoption as a form of family reunification. -
1962
Signed by President John F. Kennedy authorized the delivery of primary and supplemental healthcare services to migrant farm workers, resulting in the Migrant Health care program. Migrant Health Centers receive funding under Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act and provide culturally competent and comprehensive primary and preventive healthcare to migratory and seasonal farm rokers and tehir families. -
Act
Law opened the door to immigration by highly skilled workers from countries with low immigration quotas, anticipating the immigration Act of 1965 emphasis on employment preferences. -
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CHWs
The Federal Migrant Health Act of 1962 mandated outreach, but there was no substantial activity involving indigenous CHWs until the 1970s. -
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Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta
joined the organizing efforts of the
Filipino farm workers and founded
the National Farm Workers
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Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
This law set the main principles for immigration regulation still enforced today, it applied a system of preferences for family reunification (75 percent), employment ( 20 percent), and refugees ( 5 percent) and for the first time capped immigration from within. -
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chws response
During this period, attempts to engage CHWs in low-income communities were experimental responses to the persistent problems of the poor and were related more to antipoverty strategies than to a specific model of CHW intervention for health
improvement.