Fellsmere

Fellsmere Office

29 S. Maple Street, Unit A

Fellsmere, FL 32948

772-571-0081

FWAF Programs in Fellsmere

* FWAF launched the innovative Youth Empowerment Program in Apopka, Fellsmere, Pierson, Immokalee and Homestead. An HIV/AIDS education, awareness and prevention program for Haitian and Hispanic youth in at-risk and farmworker communities, the program uses the internet and social networking tools to keep the young people engaged and connected through interactive, relevant, continually evolving communications networks. With a three-year grant from the Florida Department of Health’s HIV/AIDS Bureau, YEP’s aim is to be a model program that can be replicated in other communities around the country, helping to educate and inform young people, and even helping to save lives. Just completing its first year, the program has already engaged over 72 young people in youth group sessions, a camping trip, and digital storytelling workshops which were not only fun, creative, and community-building, but also helped to raise the consciousness about disease risks and prevention. January ushers in the beginning of the second year of this already very successful project.

* Baby, I Love You is a newly launched program that provides healthy pregnancy and well-woman education to women of childbearing age in farmworker communities, funded by the Florida Department of Health’s Closing the Gap program. Outreach workers connect with at-risk farmworker women in all five satellite office areas of FWAF, helping women to become better informed, more self-confident, more knowledgeable, and better prepared for pregnancy and for a healthier life. Through this program, women are empowered to gain control over their own health by understanding the importance of good nutrition, preventive health care, managing stress, avoiding risky behaviors, home and car safety, addressing domestic violence and the availability of services and assistance in their community. The program started in July, and expects to reach 1000 farmworker and rural, low-income women in its first year.