ESOL-Coordinated Health Activities

Refugee and Diversity > Health > ESOL

Discussions about good health can't be confined to community clinics and doctors’ offices.

Here, health messages and activities were regularly intermixed into MDA's ESOL classes directed by Betsy Renfrew. Sensitive topics such as depression and PTSD were introduced. A conversation between mothers and daughters was started. Health professionals came into the class. UNCG AmeriCorps workers assisted. UNCG public health grad Dr Huaibo Xin directly assisted lay community health workers Khin and Kwol, giving them confidence and experience.