NAPA, CA – July 26, 2022 – It was a joyous day in downtown Napa as Napa County farmworkers and their households, and 50 group organizations, took half within the tenth anniversary of Día de la Familia hosted by the Napa Valley Farmworker Basis (FWF) on Sunday, July 24. This annual road competition introduced collectively the group at-large, showcasing its vibrancy, comradery, and good will, which makes Napa Valley an distinctive place to reside and work.
One of many day’s highlights was a go to from Congressman Mike Thompson, who acknowledged Arnulfo Solorio, the Napa Valley Farmworker Basis’s Vice President and companion at Silverado Farming Firm, for his management inside the farmworker group. Since 2011, the FWF has supplied schooling {and professional} growth for over 21,000 farmworkers and their households and far of its success may be attributed to Solorio’s perception that schooling is energy; in Could, Solorio obtained the Napa Valley Grapegrowers 2022 Grower of the 12 months award, which additionally acknowledged his group and business management.
“Día de la Familia is likely one of the Napa Valley Farmworker Basis’s biggest accomplishments,” stated Solorio, “With so many organizations collaborating, group members of all ages can entry important info and schooling multi functional place.”
Collaborating group organizations arrange cubicles alongside Napa Avenue and related attendees with a mess of free assets and help.
“Día de la Familia honors the onerous work and dedication these farm working households convey to Napa Valley. At our sales space, we supplied instruments to be self-sufficient,” stated Blanca Huijon, Government Director for Puertas Abiertas, “which incorporates data and schooling about caring for the physique, well being, and thoughts.”
The competition additionally included mariachi, ballet folklórico, conventional Aztec dance, kids’s actions, alternatives to be taught concerning the essential work completed within the winery, and naturally, nice meals.
This 12 months’s 10th anniversary occasion was made much more particular by the Napa Valley Latino Heritage Committee, who invited attendees to take part of their quilt undertaking, Hilos Visibles, honoring Latino/x communities and cultures. Attendees got material squares to precise themselves by means of tales or cultural concepts, which is able to dangle exterior the Napa County Historic Society, October 7, 2022 – March 24, 2023.
OLE Well being returned this 12 months, as nicely, with complimentary well being screenings. The screenings included blood stress, BMI evaluation, COVID-19 vaccinations, and extra. Their service is one other nice instance of the numerous assets accessible throughout Día de la Familia; on Sunday, OLE Well being helped 95 group members and administered 40 COVID-19 booster photographs.
Neighborhood organizations that participated within the 10th Annual Día de la Familia embrace:
- Aldea, Inc.
- California Well being Collaborative/Each Lady Counts
- California Freeway Patrol (CHP)
- California Human Growth Farmworker Providers Division and Immigration Division
- Little one Begin Inc.
- Metropolis of Napa
- Neighborhood Well being Initiative
- Neighborhood Assets for Youngsters
- Connolly Ranch
- Consulado Common de México en San Francisco
- Cope Household Heart
- County of Napa
- IHSS Public Authority of the County of Napa
- IIBA
- Latino Heritage Committee
- Psychological Well being Division, Napa County Well being and Human Providers
- Mentis
- Napa County – CEO Workplace
- Napa County Ag Commissioner
- Napa County Little one Assist Providers
- Napa County HHSA ADS
- Napa County Grasp Gardeners Latino Outreach
- Napa County Workplace of Schooling
- Napa County Public Well being
- Napa County Self Sufficiency Providers
- Napa County Sheriff’s Workplace
- Napa Useful resource Conservation Providers
- Napa Valley Grownup Schooling
- Napa Valley Faculty
- Napa Valley Neighborhood Housing
- Napa Valley Neighborhood Organizations Lively in Catastrophe
- Napa Valley Schooling Basis (Music Connection)
- NCR/Improvements Neighborhood Heart
- NEWS
- On The Transfer – The Neighborhood Initiative
- Windfall Queen of the Valley Medical Heart Most cancers Assist Providers
- Windfall Queen of the Valley Medical Heart, Neighborhood Outreach Dept
- Puertas Abiertas CRC
- Recycling Division, Metropolis of Napa
- Redwood Credit score Union
- Share the Care
- Soluna Outreach Options on behalf of Napa Recycling Program
- SRJC Excessive Faculty Equivalency Program
- UC Davis Alzheimer’s Illness Heart
- UC Davis Viticulture and Enology Division
- UpValley Household Facilities
- Western Heart for Agricultural Well being & Security at UC Davis
- Aldea, Inc.
- California Well being Collaborative/Each Lady Counts
- California Freeway Patrol (CHP)
- California Human Growth Farmworker Providers Division and Immigration Division
- Little one Begin Inc.
- Metropolis of Napa
- Neighborhood Well being Initiative
- Neighborhood Assets for Youngsters
- Connolly Ranch
- Cope Household Heart
- County of Napa
- IHSS Public Authority of the County of Napa
- IIBA
- Latino Heritage Committee
- Psychological Well being Division, Napa County Well being and Human Providers
- Mentis
Many because of the next companions who helped convey this 12 months’s competition to life: Vivid Occasion Leases, H&E Gear Provide, The Lux Productions, OLE Well being, Puertas Aberitas, Silverado Farming Firm, St. John’s Catholic Church, Walsh Vineyards Administration, Suzanne Becker Bronk Pictures, KVON Mega Combine, and Partners2Media.
About Napa Valley Farmworker Basis
Based by the Napa Valley Grapegrowers in 2011, the mission of the Napa Valley Farmworker Basis is to help and promote Napa Valley’s winery employees by means of schooling {and professional} growth. The Napa Valley Farmworker Basis is the one one among its type in the USA, offering instructional alternatives, superior coaching applications, management and administration lessons, English literacy applications, and far more. Up to now, the Farmworker Basis has supplied schooling {and professional} growth alternatives to greater than 21,000 winery employees and their households.
For extra info, go to our web site and observe the Napa Valley Farmworker Basis on Fb and Instagram.
