Spanish-Language
Health Resources
Knowledge Path
Knowledge Path Table of Contents
Resources on Specific Maternal and Child Health Topics
- Child Care
- Child Maltreatment
- Consumer Safety
- Diabetes
- Domestic Violence
- Drug and Alcohol Use
- Environmental Health
- Mental Health and Well-Being
- Nutrition
- Oral Health
- Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Special Needs
- Sudden and Other Unexpected Infant Death
Please provide feedback on this knowledge path.
This knowledge
path has been compiled by the MCH Library at
Georgetown University. It points to current,
high-quality Spanish-language health
resources for health professionals and
consumers. The first section presents
general resources that cover a wide range
of health topics,
while the second section lists resources
that focus on specific aspects of maternal
and child health. This
knowledge path will be updated periodically.
Related topic:
Please see
our knowledge path, Racial
and ethnic disparities in health.
It includes a section with resources
about cultural and linguistic competence
to remove
barriers
to care and narrow health disparities.
- Insure
Kids Now/Asegure a sus Hijos Ahora.
Offers information about the State
Children's Health Insurance Program
and links to each state's
child and adolescent
health
insurance
program
website. Telephone:
(877) 543-7669 (KIDS-NOW) (English
or Spanish).
- National
Alliance for Hispanic Health/Su
Familia: The National Hispanic
Family Health Helpline.
Provides referrals to local
health professionals
and information
in English and Spanish on a wide
range of health topics. Telephone:
(866) 783-2645 (SU-FAMILIA) (English
or Spanish).
- National
Library of Medicine: Health Hotlines.
Presents information about health-related
organizations that offer toll-free
telephone services with Spanish-speaking
operators.
- Also see the Childhelp
National Child Abuse Hotline, First
Candle/SIDS Alliance, the National Hispanic Prenatal
Helpline, the National Mental Health Information
Center, and Planned
Parenthood Federation of America
(PPFA).
- Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ)/Salud: Información
en Español.
Contains Spanish-language consumer
health information about health
care quality, prevention, and wellness;
choosing a health plan; and medication
safety. AHRQ is the health services
research arm of the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Initiatives include
Be a Superhero/Superhéroes. Presents tips on ways to stay healthy and talk with a doctor, recommendations on preventive testing, help in understanding prescriptions, and a glossary of medical terms. Superhéroes is a public service campaign that urges Hispanics to stay healthy for their loved ones by visiting their doctor for regular screenings.
- American
Academy of Family Physicians: familydoctor.org
en Español.
Presents Spanish-language consumer
information about medical conditions
and illnesses,
health
promotion, health insurance, over-the-counter
medications, and health information
for women, men, families, and senior
citizens.
- American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Patient
Education
Online. Presents a
collection of patient-education handouts
on infant, child, and adolescent health
and safety topics. Most materials are
available in English and Spanish.
- Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) en Español/Centros
Para el Control y la Prevención
de Enfermedades.
Contains a wealth of information
in Spanish for health professionals
and consumers about diseases and
conditions; health
promotion; emergency preparedness
and response; travelers' health;
life stages and populations (e.g.,
infants and children); and workplace
safety and health. Other resources
in Spanish include data;
podcasts;
health news;
conference information; and information
about CDC, its mission, and its
centers. CDC is
an agency of the Department
of Health and Human Service (DHHS).
- Children's
Health Fund (CHF): Health Education.
Presents health-promotion materials
in English and Spanish for children
and
their families. Materials adhere
to low-literacy writing and design
conventions.
Topics include promoting healthy
behaviors,
growth and
development,
preventing disease, and managing
chronic illness. CHF is committed
to providing health care to the
nation's most
medically
underserved children and their
families.
- Children's
Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota:
Patient/Family Education Materials
A-Z.
Offers a collection of Spanish-language
health education handouts
for families about medical conditions
and procedures,
medications, first aid, infant
care, and well-child health visits.
The handouts are written in
English on one side and Spanish
on the other. Many
handouts have illustrations.
- healthfinder® en
Español.
Offers a gateway to Spanish-language
consumer health information from government and
nonprofit sources. healthfinder® is
a service of the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
- Health
Information Translations.
Offers a wealth of translated health-education
materials that are written in English
on one side and Spanish
on the other. Materials are organized
by category as follows:
disaster preparedness, diagnostic tests,
diseases
and medical conditions, exercise and
rehabilitation, nutrition, health and
wellness, home care, pain and comfort,
pediatrics, pregnancy and infant care,
safety, stress and coping, and surgeries
and treatments. The site also offers
a
set of common hospital signs
for hospitals,
clinics, emergency response teams,
and others who assist the public during
emergencies and at other times. Health
Information Translations is presented
by health-education professionals
from Ohio State
University Medical Center, Mount
Carmel Health System, and OhioHealth.
- Healthy
Roads Media.
Presents multilingual health-education
information in written, audio,
and video formats. Spanish-language
materials cover a wide range of
topics about diseases and conditions,
medications, immunizations, infant
care, child health, women's health,
mental health, oral
health, nutrition, emergencies,
and domestic violence. Healthy
Roads
Media is
supported by the National
Library of Medicine (NLM).
- KidsHealth.
Contains a wealth of doctor-approved
information in English and Spanish
for parents, children, and adolescents
on topics that include child
and adolescent
development, nutrition,
physical activity,
chronic
illnesses and disabilities, medical
and surgical conditions
and treatments, first aid,
safety, and parenting.
KidsHealth
is a service
of the Nemours Foundation's Center
for Children's Health Media.
- Medical
Library Association: Descifrando
el Lenguaje Médico.
Presents a glossary of medical terms
and
their definitions in Spanish and
an English translation of the
terms.
- MedlinePlus:
Información de Salud para
Usted.
Provides links to a wealth of health
information in Spanish about medical
conditions, diseases, and wellness.
Also presents information
about prescription and over-the-counter
medicines,
herbs, and supplements; an online
medical encyclopedia; interactive
health tutorials; health news;
and videos of surgical procedures.
In addition, non-Spanish-speaking
health professionals looking for
Spanish-language materials for
their patients can click the
"Español" button on an English-language
MedlinePlus page
to view its corresponding Spanish-language
page. The topic page Hispanic
American Health links
to organizations, news, research, and
other resources related to the
health of Hispanic Americans. The magazine, NIH
MedlinePlus Salud, presents Spanish-language
health information for consumers. MedlinePlus
is a health information service of
the National
Library of Medicine.
- National
Alliance for Hispanic Health.
Offers consumer health fact sheets
and publications in Spanish and
English. Also provides news and
legislative information about
health issues important to the
Hispanic community and toll-free health
hotlines. The alliance is
a network of health and human service
providers for over 15 million Hispanic
consumers throughout the United States.
- National
Center for Cultural Competence
(NCCC) en Español.
Contains policy briefs and checklists
in Spanish for health professionals
and policymakers about designing,
implementing, and evaluating culturally
and linguistically competent health
and mental health services. Also
provides personal stories in Spanish
about families' experiences with
the
health care system and links to
Spanish-language health resources
for families.
NCCC is part of the Georgetown
University Center for Child and
Human Development.
- National
Institutes of Health (NIH)/Institutos
Nacionales de la Salud: Institutos
y Centros.
Contains links
to the Spanish-language health
websites developed by individual
NIH institutes. Also presents NIH
Radio en Español, a
collection of MP3 audio reports
and their transcripts on consumer
health topics. NIH is part of the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
- New
York Online Access to Health (NOAH)/Acceso
Computerizado a la Salud de Nueva
York.
Links to evaluated, full-text consumer
health information in English and
Spanish on a wide range of topics.
NOAH is a partnership of several
New York City library organizations.
- NSW
Multicultural Health Communication
Service.
Presents approximately 450 publications
on a wide range of health topics
in a variety of languages, including
Spanish. New publications are added
and outdated ones are removed regularly.
The New South Wales Department
of Health in Australia funds the
service and endorses the multilingual
health information presented on
the website.
- Office
of Minority
(OMH)/Oficina de Salud de las
Minorías.
Offers Spanish-language health
information on a wide range
of health topics, a profile about
the health of Hispanic Americans,
and health news. OMH is
part of the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
- womenshealth.gov:
El Centro Nacional de Información
sobre la Salud de la Mujer.
Contains links to Spanish-language
health resources on a wide range
of women's health topics including
pregnancy, breastfeeding, heart
disease, diabetes, and nutrition.
NWHIC is a project of the Office
on Women's Health, Department
of Health and Human Services.
Additional Electronic Publications
- Mayer
R, Anastasi J, Clark EM. 2006. What
to expect and when to seek help: A
Bright Futures developmental tool for
families and providers.
Washington, DC: National
Technical Assistance Center for Children's
Mental Health, Georgetown
University Center for Child and Human
Development,
with National
Center for Education in Maternal and
Child Health (NCEMCH). This
set of publications in English and
Spanish is designed to help families
and professionals support the healthy
social and emotional development of
children and adolescents. The set includes
four tools about development during
infancy (birth through age 12 months),
early childhood (ages 1-4), middle
childhood (ages 5-10), and adolescence
(ages 11-21). A companion referral
tool is designed to help service providers
guide families to available resources
by identifying a roster of education,
mental health, family support, child
care, and other services that can address
identified needs or concerns.
- National
Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD). 2006. Adventures
in parenting: How responding, preventing,
monitoring, mentoring, and modeling
can help you be a successful parent/Qué significa
ser padres?: Guia para ayudarles a
tener éxito como padres y madres
de familia. Bethesda, MD: National
Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD).
This booklet
for parents is available in English and Spanish.
- Office
of the Surgeon General.
2009. My
family health portrait/Mi historia de salud familiar.
Washington, DC: Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
This document is
part of the Surgeon General's national
initiative to improve health by encouraging
people to track their family health
history. Available in English and
Spanish, it provides a chart of
a family tree that individuals
can
fill in with family members' relevant
health information.
- Office
of Women's Health (OWH).
2008. My bright
future: Physical activity and healthy eating guide
for adult women/Mi futuro será brillante: Actividad física
y alimentación
saludable --
Para mujeres adultasas. Rockville, MD: Health
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). This Spanish-language booklet
and
series
of
tip sheets address the connection between
women's mental
and physical health across the lifespan.
- Zero
To Three: National Center for Infants,
Toddlers, and Families.
2007. Everyday
ways to support your baby's and toddler's
early learning/Formas cotidianas de
apoyar el
aprendizaje temprano
de su bebé y niño pequeño.
Washington,
DC: Zero To Three: National Center
for Infants, Toddlers, and Families.
This fact sheet for parents provides
information about ways to support infants'
and young childrens' learning. The fact
sheet informs parents about how infants
and young children develop language and
communication, thinking skills, self-control, and self-confidence.
The fact sheet is written in English
on one side and Spanish on the other.
The databases listed below are excellent tools for identifying additional Spanish-language health resources. Many of the entries below contain tips on how to use the databases efficiently. Please note that databases vary in how terms should be entered; for example, some require quotation marks and others don't. Enter search phrases as shown in bold below.
- Children,
Youth and Families Education and
Research Network (CYFERnet): Search
Options for Resources en Español.
Presents information about organizations
and programs
as well as educational materials
for families, professionals,
and community leaders who work
with children, adolescents,
and families. Resources are
reviewed by college and university
faculty and address the care
and nurturing of young children,
the needs of students in
kindergarten to eighth grade,
the enhancement of social competence
and the reduction of risk behaviors
among adolescents, what parents
can do to raise healthy children,
and developing community and
individual capacity to build
stronger families and communities.
Use the database search form
to identify Spanish-language
resources on your topic of
interest. CYFERnet is a national
network of land-grant university
faculty and county extension
educators working to support
community-based educational
programs for children, adolescents,
and families.
- Discretionary
Grant Information
System (DGIS). Contains
information about grants issued
by the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau (MCHB),
including grants that develop Spanish-language
materials as part of their work.
To identify
these projects,
click on
Abstracts, enter Spanish in
the Search Word or Phrase field,
and click on
Search to get your results.
- MCH Library at
the National
Center for Education in Maternal
and Child Health (NCEMCH),
Georgetown University. Maintains
several databases to collect, manage,
and disseminate knowledge about
maternal and child health (MCH),
with special emphasis on knowledge
gained
from
initiatives
and programs
supported by the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).
Use the Non-English
Materials and Resources Index to
identify resources written in many
non-English languages, including
Spanish. For searches on particular
MCH topics, you may search the
databases separately, as follows:
MCHLine®. Comprises an online catalog of materials in the MCH Library. To identify materials in Spanish, type "Spanish language materials" in the keyword field of the database search form. Enter the code as it is shown, and click on Search to get your results. To narrow your search, add keywords such as "infant care", immunization, "oral health", or pregnancy. Or add a publication year or range of years.
- PubMed.
Contains over 20 million citations
for biomedical articles from MEDLINE
and life science journals. Citations
may include links to full-text articles
from PubMed Central or publisher websites. To identify citations in Spanish,
enter your topic
of interest in the search box. Use
the MeSH
(Medical Subject Headings) database to
identify search terms. Click
on Limits, and select Languages:
Spanish. Selecting
a publication date range and/or ages
will further limit your
search. PubMed
is a service of the National
Library of Medicine.
Related search tools include
BabelMeSH: Multilanguage Search for MEDLINE/PubMed/Búsqueda MEDLINE/PubMed en Español. This search tool allows you to search PubMed in Spanish. Spanish medical terms or phrases can be entered in the search form, and the citations returned will be in English. This tool by the National Library of Medicine is under development, and feedback is encouraged.
PubMed Enhanced Search/Búsqueda Mejorada en PubMed. This tool is available in English and Spanish. It offers a guided search of PubMed by asking questions about the type of article a user is looking for with reminders about search features such as truncation and MeSH terms to improve search results. This tool is a service of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
- Also see AGRICOLA,
the Child
Welfare Information Gateway, the Food
and Nutrition Information Center
(FNIC), and the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource
Center (OHRC) Library.
Resources on Specific Maternal and Child Health Topics
- Child
Care Aware/El Servico de Información
Más Confiable de Estados Unidos Sobre el Cuidado de Ninos.
Offers families child care information for
families in Spanish on topics such as choosing
high-quality care, types of care, licensing, and accreditation.
- Childhelp
National Child Abuse Hotline. Call for help with reporting
child abuse and neglect or to speak with a counselor. The hotline
is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with professional crisis
counselors who, through interpreters,
can provide assistance in 170 languages, including Spanish. The
hotline offers crisis intervention, information, literature, and
referrals
to thousands
of emergency, social service, and support resources. All calls
are anonymous and confidential. Telephone: (800)
422-4453 (4-A-CHILD).
- Child
Welfare Information Gateway: Resources
in Spanish.
Presents Spanish-language resources
on child abuse and neglect prevention
and intervention, child protective
services, foster care, and adoption. Search the gateway library for additional
Spanish-language child welfare resources
by entering spanish in
the keyword field. Narrow your search
by adding keywords or
a publication year. Click on Go to
get your results. The gateway
is
a
service
of the Department
of Health and Human Service (DHHS).
- Consumer
Product Safety Commission (CPSC)/El
Mundo Hispano de la CPSC.
Presents safety
notices and publications in Spanish
about potentially hazardous
consumer products, such as children's
furniture and toys. Also offers
an e-mail announcement service
in Spanish
for consumer product recall and
safety news.
CPSC evaluates the safety of products
sold to the public.
- Food
and Drug Administration (FDA)/Publicaciones
en Español.
Presents consumer publications
in Spanish about medicines, food
safety, medical devices, radiological
health,
veterinary
medicine, health promotion,
and medical conditions. FDA is
an agency of the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
- American
Diabetes Association (ADA): La Diabetes
y Los Latinos Información
en Español.
Describes the major types of diabetes
and presents information in Spanish
about diabetes risk
factors,
diagnosis,
management, and complications. Includes
Spanish-language resources for parents
whose child has just been diagnosed
with
diabetes.
- National
Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic
Violence/Alianza Latina Nacional para Erradicar
la Violencia Doméstica (Alianza).
Offers reports and brochures in
Spanish about domestic violence affecting Latino
communities.
Alianza represents
a national network of Latina and Latino advocates,
service providers, researchers, community activists,
and survivors of domestic violence.
- National
Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug
Information (NCADI): Spanish Publications.
Offers Spanish-language brochures for
families about alcohol and drug abuse
prevention and addiction treatment.
NCADI is a service of the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA).
- National
Pesticide Information Center (NPIC)/El
Centro
de Información Nacional del
Pesticida. Presents information
in Spanish about pesticides including
production, regulations, safety,
and emergencies. NPIC
provides a toll-free English
and Spanish telephone service
for professionals and consumers. Telephone:
(800) 858-7378.
NPIC is a cooperative agreement between
Oregon State University and the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA).
- Tox
Town en Español.
Offers information in Spanish for
consumers about the connections
between chemicals,
the environment, and the public's
health. Tox Town is a project of
the National
Library of Medicine.
- About
Our Kids en Español.
Presents information in Spanish for professionals
and families about child and adolescent
mental health challenges and parenting.
Resources include science-based
articles, newsletters, a glossary
of medical terms, and lists
of recommended resources.
About Our Kids is a resource of
the New York University Child
Study Center.
- American
Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry (AACAP): Información
para la Familia.
Offers a set of Spanish-language
fact sheets for
families on a wide range
of topics about healthy social
and emotional development as well as emotional,
behavioral, and mental health challenges in
children and adolescents.
- American
Psychological Association (APA)
Help Center/El Centro de Apoyo
de la APA. Gives
information in Spanish
about work and school, family and
relationships, health and emotional
wellness, and talking to a psychologist.
- National
Alliance on Mental Illness
(NAMI)/La Alianza Nacional de
Enfermedades Mentales. Presents Spanish-language
fact sheets, a newsletter, electronic
discussion groups, and educational
programs about emotional, behavioral,
and mental health challenges.
NAMI is a national support and
advocacy organization. Telephone: (800) 950-6264 (English
or Spanish).
- National
Mental Health Information Center:
Líneas Nacionales de Ayuda.
Presents information about mental
health organizations that offer
toll-free telephone helplines and
resources in Spanish.
- Miles P, Bruns EJ, Osher
TW, Walker JS, National Wraparound
Initiative Advisory Group. 2007. The
wraparound process user's guide:
A handbook for families/Manual de
usuario del proceso del
wraparound (asistencia integral):
Una guia para familias. Portland,
OR: Research
and Training Center on Family
Support and Children's Mental
Health. This Spanish-language
guide describes the wraparound
process for families with children
and adolescents who have emotional,
behavioral, and mental health
challenges, who are involved
with several child and family
service systems
(e.g. mental health, child welfare, juvenile justice, special education), and
who
are at risk for being placed in institutional settings.
- Also see the National
Dissemination Center for Children
with Disabilities (NICHCY). For resources
about depression during and after
pregnancy, see sexual
and reproductive health.
- AGRICOLA
(AGRICultural OnLine Access).
Contains bibliographic information
for agricultural literature including
many child and adolescent nutrition
publications from USDA's Food
and Nutrition Service; state child
nutrition agencies; Nutrition Education
and Training Program products;
Team Nutrition grantees; cooperative
extension program materials; and
materials from associations, universities,
and the private sector. AGRICOLA
is organized into two data sets
(books and articles). To
identify Spanish-language materials,
click on Keyword Search under Books
or Articles. First select Set
Limits in the bottom right corner
of the
search box. Select Language: Spanish;
select a date range; and click
on Set Limits. Next, enter your
topic of interest (e.g., nutrition).
Use the thesaurus to
identify search terms. AGRICOLA
is a service of the National
Agricultural Library (NAL).
- Food
and Nutrition Information Center
(FNIC) Databases.
Presents a collection of databases
about evaluated food and nutrition
education and training materials
and research reports for nutrition
educators and other health professionals,
school food service and child nutrition
personnel, and consumers. FNIC
is located at the National
Agricultural Library. Databases
with Spanish-language materials
are
Healthy Meals Resource System Education and Training Materials Database. Presents information about educational materials for school personnel and others working in child nutrition programs. To identify Spanish-language materials, browse Search by Keyword and click on Spanish Language Materials.
SNAP-Ed Connection Resource Finder Database. Presents information about training and continuing education resources for nutrition educators working with audiences with low incomes. To find Spanish-language materials, click on Advanced Search. Enter a search term (e.g., breastfeeding), scroll to Select a language, select Spanish, and click on Search to get your results.
WIC Works Education and Training Materials Database. Contains information about books, brochures, training kits, videotapes, posters, and other resources that can be used in staff training or participant education for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). To find Spanish-language materials, select Language: Spanish; select a topic, format, or user group; and select Search to get your results.
- La
Leche League International /La
Liga de la Leche (LLLI).
Offers breastfeeding-education
materials in Spanish and an online
Spanish-speaking breastfeeding-support
group. LLLI aims to help mothers
worldwide
to breastfeed through mother-to-mother
support, education, information,
and encouragement.
- MyPyramid
Food Guidance System. Presents
a nutrition-education tool in English
and Spanish that translates nutritional
recommendations into the kinds
and amounts of food to eat each
day based on a person's age, gender,
and activity level. MyPyramid is
a resource of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA).
- Nutrition.gov
en Español.
Links to Spanish-language food and
nutrition information from
federal agencies. Topics include
dietary
guidelines and weight management,
meal planning, and
federal nutrition-assistance programs.
- Office
of Women's Health (OWH). 2006. An
easy guide to breastfeeding/Una
guía
fácil para la lactancia.
Washington, DC: Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
This booklet is written in English and Spanish. It is geared toward
new or expectant mothers and provides
breastfeeding information and encouragement.
- National
Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource
Center (OHRC) Library.
Presents a collection of materials
to assist health professionals,
program administrators, educators, policymakers, and others
in improving oral health services
for pregnant women, infants, children,
and adolescents. Includes oral health materials for consumers.
To identify Spanish-language
oral health materials, scroll to
the Non-English Language Materials section and click on Spanish.
OHRC is supported
by MCHB, and it collaborates
with the MCH Library on
its oral-health-collection development.
Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Advocates
for Youth: Publicaciones en Español. Contains
Spanish-language publications for health professionals, policymakers,
and families about adolescent sexual and reproductive
health. Topics include sexuality education, HIV and sexually transmitted
disease prevention, contraception, and adolescent pregnancy. Advocates
for Youth aims to help adolescents and young adults make informed
and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health.
- Health
Information: Pregnancy. Presents
fact sheets in Spanish on pregnancy,
childbirth, breastfeeding, and serious
pregnancy and fetal conditions. This information
is presented by the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill Center for Maternal and Infant
Health.
- March
of Dimes (MOD) en Español/Nacersano.
Contains information in Spanish
about preconception, pregnancy,
and infant
care.
MOD is
a national
organization
that strives to improve infants'
health by preventing birth defects,
premature birth, and infant mortality.
- National
Alliance for Hispanic Health: National
Hispanic Prenatal Helpline.
Call for a referral to local prenatal
care services that provide care
in English and Spanish or for culturally
appropriate prenatal care information
in English and Spanish. Telephone:
(800) 504-7081 (English or Spanish).
- Planned
Parenthood Federation of America
(PPFA) En Español.
Gives information in English and Spanish
about sexual and reproductive health.
Topics include sexuality education,
sexually transmitted diseases,
contraception,
and
pregnancy. PPFA and
its health center affiliates provide
reproductive health services and
sexual health information to millions
of women, men, and adolescents
in the United States annually.
For an online
directory of PPFA health
center affiliates
in each state, search by
state and zip code from the website home page. Telephone:
(800) 230-7526.
- Maryland
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
2007. About
postpartum depression, rev. ed./Acerca
de la depresion postparto.
Baltimore, MD: Maryland
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
This brochure for new mothers is written
in English and Spanish, and it provides
an overview of postpartum depression.
- Vexler EJ, Sullentrop
K. 2006. Bridging
two worlds: How teen pregnancy prevention
programs can better serve Latino youth/Un
puente entre dos mundos: Cómo
lograr que los programas para la
prevención del embarazo en la
adolescencia presten mejores servicios
a
los jóvenes latinos.
Washington, DC: National
Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
This publication is written in English
and Spanish. It is intended
for those involved in community programs
that work directly with Hispanic adolescents,
and it offers information
that can help reduce
adolescent pregnancy rates within the
Hispanic community. The publication
provides demographic data about the Hispanic
community,
an overview of pregnancy-prevention
programs shown to be effective with Hispanic
adolescents,
insights from program leaders in the
field, and views of Hispanic adolescents
themselves.
- Wisconsin
Association for Perinatal Care. 2008. Planning
for pregnancy: Women with depression,
rev. ed./Planificación
del embarazo: Mujeres con depresión.
Madison, WI: Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care.
This fact sheet is written in English and Spanish. Iit is intended to help
women with depression plan for pregnancy.
- Global
and Regional Asperger
Syndrome Partnership
(GRASP) en Español.
Offers materials, program information,
and an online discussion
group in Spanish about autism spectrum disorders.
GRASP is an educational
and advocacy organization
serving individuals
on the autism spectrum.
- National
Dissemination Center for Children
with Disabilities (NICHCY):
Nuestros
Productos y Publicaciones.
Provides a wealth of Spanish-language
publications for families, educators,
and other professionals on disabilities
and disability-related issues.
Topics include specific disabilities
such
as autism and more general issues
such as special
education and related services.
Also presents a list of links to Spanish-language
resources on disability
conditions.
The list is written in English
to help
people
looking for Spanish-language materials
to share with Spanish-speaking
families. NICHCY is funded
by the Department
of Education (ED).
- Technical
Assistance Alliance for
Parent Centers (The Alliance):
Spanish Resources. Links to Spanish-language
resources for parents
of children and adolescents
with disabilities (emotional,
learning, mental, and
physical) to enable parents
to participate more effectively
with professionals in
meeting the educational
needs of their children.
The Alliance is funded
by the Department
of Education (ED).
- Doyle BT, Iland ED. 2006. Bilingual
autism resource guide/Guia
bilingüe de recursos sobre autismo. Santa
Clarita, CA: Autism Spectrum Disorders
from A to Z. This guide links to Spanish-language information
for parents and professionals
to help children and
adolescents with autism spectrum disorders.
- Wells C. 2007. Disaster
preparedness for families
of children with special
needs/Preparación
para situaciones de desastre
para familias de niños con necesidades. Sopchoppy,
FL: Florida Institute
for Family Involvement (FIFI). This
guide for families of children
with special health care
needs is written in English
and Spanish. It aims
to assist families with preparing
for and reacting to disasters
and emergencies.
Sudden and Other Unexpected Infant Death
- First
Candle/SIDS Alliance. Provides a nationwide
24-hour toll-free hotline in English and Spanish
on ways to help infants survive and
thrive and for bereavement support.
For expectant and new parents, parents
who have experienced the death of an infant, and professionals
working with families. Telephone:
(800) 221-7437.
- National
Sudden and Unexpected Infant/Child
Death and
Pregnancy Loss Resource Center/Bienvenido
a En Español.
Presents Spanish-language publications
and resources on sudden and unexpected
infant death
with
links to English versions when available.
Spanish-Language Health Resources: Knowledge Path, 3rd ed.
(February 2009). (Updated: September 2011).
Author: Susan
Brune Lorenzo, M.L.S., MCH Library.
Reviewers: Lauren Agoratus, M.A., Family Voices and
Family-To-Family Health Information Resource Center
at the Statewide Parent Advocacy Network of N.J.; Isabella
Lorenzo-Hubert, M.Ed., National Center for Cultural
Competence; Olivia K. Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., MCH Library; Teresa Ramirez, Hemophilia Association of
San Diego County.
Editor: Ruth Barzel, M.A., MCH Library.
