National Día de la Mujer Latina Promotores Network

http://www.diadelamujerlatina.org; Venus Ginés, M.A. P/CHWI  

PH: (713) 798-5715; Toll-Free: (877) 518-8889

Día de la Mujer Latina™, or DML, a nonprofit organization, is dedicated to educating and eliminating health disparities in access to care and early detection screening among Latinas, via its signature Promotores/Community Health Worker (P/CHWs) training program and health fiestas since 1997. Founded by a Latina breast cancer survivor, chair of the HHS National Promotores Initiative, and Texas State Certified Instructor, Venus Ginés, DML is an approved Texas State Health Sponsored Certification Training Program, conducting 160-hour bilingual training on eight Core Competencies: Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Coordination of Services, Community Capacity Building, Advocacy, Teaching, Organization and Knowledge-based, including diabetes, hypertension, breast and cervical cancer, STDs (HPV & HIV), Autism and Heart disease. DML’s P/CHW Network is comprised of 300 Promotores within 39 cities across the United States and Puerto Rico, with many of these P/CHWs serving as patient navigators for those participants at DML Health Fiestas, who needed follow up care after their initial screening.