Welcome to MLOV’s New Community Health Organizer Tiffany Finck-Haynes (rightyt, enjoying the official MLOV hammock) is MLOV’s new Community Health Organizer. Tiffany will liaise with the Vietnamese American Community Service Center (VACSC) to address specific barriers nail salon workers, and use lessons learned from this project to similarly address the barriers that workers in other service industries experience. She has prior organizing experience with labor solidarity and environmental stewardship campaigns to promote environmental and social justice. Hailing from the green mountains of Vermont, Tiffany’s feet landed in Washington to pursue a degree in International Affairs at George Washington University. She is fluent in Spanish and has had experience working with communities in South America.
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Health Updates Many Languages One Voice’s Health program organizes workers who speak English as an Additional Language, creating community-led solutions for overcoming barriers to accessing quality health care services in DC. We’re happy to welcome Tiffany Finck-Haynes as a new full-time Health Organizer, and Keiko Alvarez (see next page), who will be researching and conducting outreach in Spanish and French to develop a health campaign that reflects the needs of DC’s immigrant communities. MLOV will continue its work with the Nail Salon Project, working with nail salon workers and owners to achieve better occupational health conditions in nail salons while also addressing the issues of healthcare accessibility, health literacy and language access. MLOV has started organizing with day laborers and childcare workers regarding similar issues. MLOV is also working to promote measures that ensure quality translation and interpretation in all clinics and hospitals in the district. MLOV is also in the process of planning several community health fairs for members of our limited-English proficient immigrant communities to receive linguistically and culturally appropriate health resources.