El Proyecto Bienestar (EPB) or, Well Being Project, is a long-standing community health intervention effort guided by a Yakima Valley community advisory board. The partnership is comprised of: The University of Washington; Northwest Communities Education Center/Radio KDNA; Heritage University; and Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic.
This stakeholder driven project aimed to reduce un-permitted harvesting of special forest products (SFPs) in the Forks, Washington area and increase the overall health of the environment and the workers. In a one-year effort, the Sustainable Harvest project brought together harvesters, public and private landowners, and local city and tribal government representatives.
This sub-project was housed under another program, The Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research, which worked to understand the mechanisms that define children’s susceptibility to pesticides. Center researchers, including some that also worked at PNASH led field studies with a farmworker community to bring a unique and successful approach to the study of children’s environmental health. This center was funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and NIEHS.
