MidAmerica International Ag Consortium

"The Changing Face of the Rural Midwest:
Latino/a Immigration Challenges
For Communities and Institutions"

This Conference was held November 7-9, 2001 at the Best Western Village Hotel Convention Center in Lincoln Nebraska. The abstracts of many of the conference speakers are archived below and may be veiwed in .pdf format.

Model for Faith Based Community Development -"Renewing Rural Missouri", Trenton and Milan, Mo. by Ben E. Helmer

Project PLOW" (People Learning Others' Ways - A Model of Assimilation of Latino Workers into Rural Kentucky Communities - : Dr. David Coffey, Department of Agriculture, and Dr. Ron Eckard, Department of English, Western Kentucky University

Working Together We Help Our Community - Debra Schroeder, Extension Educator - Cuming County, Nebraska

Mental Health Services Issues for Hispanics/Latinos in Rural America - Jose J. Soto, Affirmative Action, Equity, and Diversity, Southeast Community College Area, Nebraska (PowerPoint Presentation)

Assessing the Public Health Status of Newcomers: A Report on Selected Immigrant Communities of Iowa - Clementine M. Msengi (MA), Joseph Ogah (MA), Global Health Corps, University of Northern Iowa

The Legal & Racial Implications of the Change of Color in America’s Heartland (PowerPoint Presentation) - Sylvia R. Lazos, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law

Ottumwa Community Voices Leadership Program - Tom Quinn, Iowa State University Extension

Embracing the Ethnic Reality of America: The Garden City Kansas Experience - Carol Young, K-State Southwest Research and Extension Center, Garden City, KS

Relationship Marketing - Building and Maintaining Partnership - Amparo Navarrete

Unofficial Sister Cites: Meatpacking Labor Migration between Villachuato, Mexico and Marshalltown, Iowa - Mark A. Grey and Anne C. Woodrick, Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa

Action Teams developed during the conference

For Information, please contact Tonya Mjelde, Administrative Assistant, MidAmerica International Agricultural Consortium, 18 Curtiss Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
Ph: (515) 294-3803 F: (515) 294-3803 (call first)
email: tmjelde@iastate.edu