Community Health Workers in Downstate New York
Folklorists Aaron Paige and Elinor Levy at Arts Westchester in White Plains, New York, working in collaboration with Sun River Health (SRH), received a 2021 Archie Green Fellowship to document "Community Health Workers in Downstate New York." They interviewed 16 of the non-profit’s community health workers in rural, urban and suburban locations in the Hudson River Valley, New York City and Long Island. One of the largest Federally Qualified Health Centers in the country with over 40 locations serving more than 245,000 patients, SRH’s community health employees are trained front-line healthcare workers who typically share cultural values, ethnicity, language, socioeconomic status, and life experiences with the communities they serve. Several of the SRH employees interviewed work specifically with migrant and immigrant farm workers and their families.