FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: November 26, 2007
Contact:
Vivian Muzyk
(919) 828-1819
Latino Health Educator Joins N.C. Healthy Start Foundation
Rocio Anderson Joins Effort to Reduce N.C.'s High Infant Mortality
(Raleigh, NC) –The North Carolina Healthy Start Foundation announces the appointment of a new member, Rocío Anderson, as the Latino Outreach Projects Coordinator.
Anderson was born and raised in Quito, Ecuador and has lived in the U.S. for 17 years. She worked as a consultant at the N.C. Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities providing cultural diversity training and education to health and human services agencies throughout the state. Anderson will be working on Latino outreach campaigns for the Foundation. She will also identify Latino organizations and community-based organizations serving Latinos through a grant to the Foundation. This new project, titled "Resources in Communities Helps Encourage Solutions" (RICHES) is funded by the GlaxoSmithKline Foundation.
"Working with an organization that focuses on the well-being of mothers and our children of tomorrow is very inspiring and rewarding on a daily basis," said Anderson.
Janice Freedman, the Foundation's Executive Director, is excited to enhance the existing Latino campaign. "We are delighted that Rocío Anderson has joined our team," Freedman said. "She will strengthen our existing Latino outreach efforts and will work on an exciting new project to identify other organizations that serve Latinas and provide education."
Anderson lives in Apex with her husband, an officer in the Cary Police Department, and their two children.
The N.C. Healthy Start Foundation, a
nonprofit organization established in 1990, conducts
ongoing public education campaigns, advises state and
local policy makers, and provides technical assistance
and professional training focused on reducing infant
death and illness and improving the health of women
and young children in N.C.
