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OSU Extension vaccination outreach creates comfortable environments

The event created an environment specifically designed for comfort around potentially confusing and uncomfortable questions about COVID vaccination

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Extension begins grassroots effort to increase vaccine uptake among Latinos

OSU Extension accelerates its local outreach to improve vaccine confidence and uptake in Oregon’s Latino population.

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Community Engagement Features Public Health

Grad student saw Latinx community struggling, so she leaped into action, addressing food insecurity and removing barriers to health

Doctoral student Nancy Vargas saw Oregon’s Latinx communities struggling with food insecurity, so she stepped up to help get them the resources they needed.

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Paying it forward

Mario’s journey to Oregon State began in the summer of 1990 while picking apples in Washington and listening to a Spanish radio station.

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Community Engagement

So much more than summer camp

The hard work and success is Isaac’s. The inspiration, motivation and support is Mario Magana’s. Mario, a CPHHS associate professor, created the summer camps – one for migrant middle schoolers and another for multicultural campers – as a place for a diverse group of Oregon middle school students to converge and gain insight into their personal and career aspirations.

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New 4-H program aims to prepare culturally diverse youth for college

High school students will explore college and career opportunities in a new 4-H program coordinated by the Oregon State University Extension Service.