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Fall 2025 NCFH Agricultural Worker Health Symposium
December 3-5, 2025
Phoenix, Arizona
Call for Abstracts

The National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH) is now accepting proposals for the Fall 2025 Agricultural Worker Health Symposium. Submission deadline is 09/30/25.
Overarching Theme: Healthy Foundations, Strong Futures:
Preventing Disease, Promoting Wellness

The focus of the NCFH Fall Agricultural Worker Health Symposium is on building workforce capacity to support whole-person health in special medically underserved populations (SMUPs), particularly migratory and seasonal agricultural workers (MSAWs). We welcome trainings that address preventable conditions, promote daily wellness, and equip professionals to respond effectively to common health needs. Sessions should emphasize real-world application, offering actionable strategies participants can implement immediately in their fields.
Training Focus Areas

Training proposals should align with one of the following areas:

Advancing Service Delivery, Outreach, and Clinical Practices
This focus area centers on practical approaches to preventing and managing common health conditions. With an emphasis on proactive care and daily wellness, sessions will support healthcare staff in addressing the most frequently seen health needs in the field. By strengthening foundational practices such as nutrition, physical activity, and health condition management, this focus area helps improve long-term health outcomes and support work readiness. It will also highlight innovative service delivery and outreach strategies that expand access, reduce barriers, and improve continuity of patient care.

Topics may include:
- Preventing and managing chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma, or hypertension
- Tobacco use prevention and cessation
- Developing clear and effective patient communication strategies
- Supporting healthy eating habits and promoting regular physical activity while addressing barriers to both
- Addressing stress, fatigue, and other factors affecting emotional wellbeing
- Improving service delivery models to increase access, continuity, and quality of care
- Strengthening outreach strategies that increase awareness and use of health services

Developing Leadership for Sustainable Impact
This focus area reflects one of the Symposia foundational pillars: empowering health center staff and community partners to become leaders in advancing health. Leadership development is key to sustaining innovative practices, strengthening collaboration, and ensuring that promising strategies take root across teams, organizations, and communities. Sessions in this area will focus on building confidence, skills, and systems that enable participants to lead effectively.

Topics may include:
- Building leadership capacity among frontline staff, CHWs, and outreach workers
- Coaching, mentoring, and succession planning to strengthen the workforce pipeline
- Fostering interprofessional teamwork and collaborative decision-making
- Leading organizational change to improve service delivery
Training Session Submissions
We are currently seeking applications for training sessions to be presented at the NCFH Fall 2025 Agricultural Worker Health Symposium. Each session may include a maximum of two speakers, one primary and one secondary. Applicants are reminded that trainings should go beyond informational delivery and also include an interactive component to engage participants and enhance learning.
Possible interactive/participatory activities during workshops may include, but are not limited to:

Group learning circles
Practical demonstrations or skill-building activities

 Scenario training and/or problem-solving role play exercises

Motivational interviewing/team building exercises

 Action planning Developing patient health materials or toolkits
Training Submission Requirements

Completed training proposals must include:
  • Session description (maximum 300 words) in Word format
  • 3 learning objectives
  • CV/Resume for each speaker
  • Biographical sketch for each speaker (maximum 150 words)
  • Speaker headshot—max of 2 speakers per session
  • Signed Speaker Agreement
  • Signed W-9—required for speaker 1 reimbursement
  • Description of professional practice gap (CEU form)
  • List of references or supporting sources
  • Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships (CEU form)
Please note:
A secondary speaker must submit a separate Presenter Information Packet, which includes CV/resume, 150 word biographical sketch, headshot, a signed Speaker Agreement, and completed CEU forms. You will be asked to provide secondary speaker contact info below, if applicable.
Session Information
Please provide details about your session's format, references, topic, objectives, and key takeaways. This information ensures the focus of your presentation offers attendees valuable content aligned with Symposium goals.
Proposed Session Title
Session Description
Upload Microsoft Word document that provides a 300 word max description of the proposed session along with 3 learning objectives. Learning objectives are not included in word count. [Please refer to "How to write a measurable learning objective" reference document here] Please adhere to the following guidelines:
  • Describe the 3 learning objectives in behavioral terms, indicating the educational expectations of the participant. For example: "By the end of this session participants will..."
  • Describe how information will benefit participants, how it will help them to improve performance, and what the take home message or tool will be.
  • Describe the interactive, participatory segment of the presentation and explain how the activity/activities will engage participants and reinforce the key concepts from your didactic session.

Note: Title and description will be published in the conference program and may be edited for promotion and/or length allowable for printing.
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Describe Professional Practice Gap

Provide a brief description of the problem or opportunity for improvement this session is designed to address (e.g., change in practice, problem in practice, opportunity for improvement). List base line data used to identify this Professional Practice Gap.

Examples include:
  • Survey data from stakeholders, target audience members, subject matter experts or similar
  • Input from stakeholders such as learners, managers, or subject matter experts
  • Evidence from quality studies and/or performance improvement activities to identify opportunities for improvement
  • Evaluation data from previous education activities
  • Trends in literature
  • Direct observation
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Presentation Intended Audience

Please choose the intended audience that best matches your presentation content.
Primary Presentation Language
Learner Engagement Strategy
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References and Resources
This information will be used for CEU purposes. Please provide a list of all references and resources that you plan to use to develop your training presentation. These could include, but are not limited to:
  • Academic journals and articles
  • Books and textbooks
  • Online resources
  • Multimedia resources
  • Datasets and reports
  • Case studies or personal experience
Note: All references and resources should include the best available evidence that appropriately supports the outcome of the educational activity and have been developed and/or published within the last 5-7 years.
Please ensure to include any relevant publication or access details (such as links) as applicable. If references are not yet available, you will be asked to upload with your final PPT.
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Will your presentation include videos or multimedia?
Are you willing to repeat your session if requested? This could include pre-recording or presenting as follow up in a webinar format.
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