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Lou DeSitter
...[Lou] has created an absolutely unique outreach program aimed toward realizing a vision of people able to live and work with respect, safety, and dignity; to educate and assist themselves with their own resources; and to take part in creating the health services and programs that can benefit them.
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Community Health Leaders
1993
Area(s) of expertise:
Farmworker health
Leader’s Biography 1993:
Coordinator, La Clinica del Carino, Hood River, OR
DeSitter earned the trust and friendship of Latino farmworkers by showing them how to meet the health and housing needs encountered in this rural Oregon community with few resources. DeSitter involved his neighbors in successfully addressing the dangers of pesticide exposure, alcohol abuse, inadequate housing and discrimination.
Where this Leader can be reached today:
430 Frankton Road
Hood River, OR 97031
(541) 386-6215 |
