Día de la Mujer Latina Launches its Quinceañera Celebration focusing on Cervical Cancer Awareness
January 12, 2012, Houston, TX — Latina women have the highest mortality rate due to cervical cancer. Día de la Mujer Latina (DML) will be celebrating its 15th birthday of successful community intervention on beast and cervical cancer – its Quinceañera on January 21, 2012. To kick-off the milestones and in recognition of National Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, DML will be offering free cervical cancer screening of (Pap Smears) in partnership with Methodist Hospital, College of American Pathologists and the City of Houston at our next Health Fiesta cultural event at Southwest MultiService Center, 6400 High Star, Houston TX, 77074 on Saturday, from 9am to 2pm.. We will provide free breast exams and pap smears, as well as other STD screenings. All of these early detection screenings will be covered with only a $20 Registration Fee for 2012 as member of DML's Familia. Expected attendance is 500+.
Since 1997, Día de la Mujer Latina (DML), a 501 C3 national Latina health & wellness community-based organization , has been celebrating its signature health fiestas annually in thirty seven states and Puerto Rico with a complimentary training program for Promotores /Community Health Workers. Today, DML has trained over 350 Promotores nationally and served nearly 74,000 clients. DML became the 1st Latina CBO approved as State Sponsored Certification Training Program providing the 160 Hour bi-lingual P/CHW training throughout Texas. DML Promotores, both male and female, are respected community members whose firm knowledge and relationships in their neighborhoods enable them to deliver culturally and linguistically proficient one-on one education and patient navigation services.
"Our mission is to motive, inform, navigate and empower communities at-risk in a culturally and linguistically proficient manner. DML's signature health and wellness fiesta facilitates early detection screening to breast and cervical cancer plus other health challenges, i.e. diabetes, hypertension, obesity and HIV. Our Promotores are community-based navigators, trained to educate and navigate on health screening and ongoing care and patient case management," stated DML's CEO/Founder, Venus Ginés.
For further information on DML and its training program, please call 281-489-1111.
Día de la Mujer Latina CEO /Founder, Venus Ginés selected to serve as the Chair of the National Steering Committee for Promotores (as) de Salud/Community Health Workers (P/CHW) by U.S. Dept. of Health and
May 20, 2011 - Día de la Mujer Latina CEO/Founder, Venus Ginés has been honored to have been selected to serve as the Chair of the National Steering Committee for Promotores (as) de Salud/Community Health Workers (P/CHW). The Office of Minority Health in partnership with other US Department of Health and Human Services' agencies is charged with developing and managing the National Steering Committee for Promotores de Salud/CHWs. Learn more.
HHS Announces Promotores de Salud Initiative
May 18, 2011 - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced an initiative to promote utilization of Promotores de Salud as a means of strengthening outreach and education on the availability of health services and insurance coverage to underserved Hispanic/Latino communities. Learn more.
Venus Ginés Appointed to APHA (American Public Health Association) Committee on Women's Rights
May 11, 2011 - Learn more.
Día de la Mujer Latina Receives Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas Award to Train Promotores/Community Health Workers and Host Health Fiestas in 5 Cities
March 15, 2010, Houston, TX —Día de La Mujer Latina, Inc announced today that the funds provided by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas will enable the training of 100 Promotores de Salud and the celebration of five DML Health Fiestas to serve Latino/Hispanic communities in Dallas, Houston, Corpus Christi, El Paso and Austin, Texas, over the next year. On March 27th, DML, in partnership with the Hispanic Community Advisory Council, will co-host Feria de Salud 2010 at the Dallas Market Hall, on 2100 Stemmons Freeway in Dallas 75207. The following dates have been confirmed with other key collaborators in these cities: May 22 (Houston); June 19 (El Paso); August 7 (Corpus Christi); and September 25 (Austin). Learn more.
Dia de la Mujer Latina ™ expresses concern with the New Screening Recommendations
HOUSTON– Nov. 16, 2009 – Día de la Mujer Latina™ (DML) is a national nonprofit organization, dedicated to educating and eliminating health disparities to breast and cervical cancer access to screening among Latinas. For the last 12 years, DML has conducted health fiestas across 30 states in the US as well as in Puerto Rico, reaching over 55,000 and training over 129 Promoters and Community Health Workers. After reviewing the new recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Forces (USPSTF) regarding mammography screening for women over 50; DML feels as if this announcement has set back all the work that has been accomplished over the years in raising awareness of the importance of early detection at age 40.
DML realizes that the current mammography screening may have some deficiencies; however,it is still better to be on the side of caution rather than risking your life to a mortality statistic. Venus Ginés, founder of DML has creatively raised awareness over the importance of early detection screening at 40 and older, due to her breast cancer being detected at 41years of age. Many of the trained Promotoras (Community Health Workers) across the country have tirelessly educated and navigated those underserved and uninsured populations at-risk to early detection screening, such as clinical breast exams and mammograms at DML health fiestas. Due to the fact that Latinas survival rates to breast cancer are poorer than other racial and ethnic groups, DML stands by the current guidelines and will continue to encourage Latinos to get screened at 40 years and older and earlier if there is family history.
Contact Venus Gines for more information.
US Preventive Services Task Forces opposes routine mammograms for women age 40-49 and recommends routine mammography screenings every two years for women ages 50-74
Dia de la Mujer Latina & the Intercultural Ctr. for Health & Wellness extends its condolences over the untimely passing of Sara Gonzalez and will pay tribute to her as "Amiga Latina" at its May 10th Health Fiesta
ATLANTA, February 19th 2008-- On behalf of Dia de la Mujer Latina, Inc and the Intercutural Center for Health & Wellness, inc., we wish to convey our sincerest sympathy to the family of Sara Gonzalez, as well as to the GHCC members and staff. Sara and I met in 1993 when I first moved to Atlanta and as the Director of Community Relations, she offered a warm welcome to me and my family and a friendship that spanned 14 years. We worked together at the Olympic Games and subsequently at the Governor's Latino Commission. Since Sara was also a fellow breast cancer survivor, she offered her support to Dia de la Mujer Latina since 1997. Sara loved her Latino community and wanted to do everything possible to empower them. What saddens me more is that her most passionate wish was for Fidel Castro to step down; ironically he finally did-- one day after her passing. I hope the Latino Commmission would consider a request to the Governor to name a street after Sara-- a beloved friend and champion of all Georgians.
Dia de la Mujer Latina, Inc (DML) CEO Venus Ginés Announces its New Name and New Headquarters
ATLANTA, November 13, 2007 -- After 10 years of providing culturally and linguistically proficient health promotion with its signature health fiestas and culturally-designed cancer education and disease preventive programs in Atlanta, founder and CEO Venus Ginés, announced today that the Board of Directors voted to change its name to National Dia de la Mujer Latina and to move its headquarters to Houston, Texas as of January 2008. Learn more.
Why Many Latinas Don't Participate in Clinical Trials. By Venus Ginés
2007 -- Published in EDICT, Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Trials.
Latino versus Hispanic: What are the historical roots behind the terms "Hispanic" and "Latino"?
2007 -- It is difficult to make assumptions about Latinos since they represent a mix of racial and ethnic lines from 22 different countries of origin. This specific population has unique demographic characteristics and degrees of acculturation in addition to differences in history and cultural background. The terms Hispanic or Latino, used by many to classify the culture continues to be a source of contention because the former implies a connection to ancient Spain and its language while the latter represents a nationality, that of Latin America. The category term of Hispanic was first used in the l980 Census and caused uproar among Latinos in the Southwest, Chicago and New. Learn more.
