PUBLICATIONS & REPORTS
2025Public Health Access To The Watonwan County Health System For Latino Communities
BACKGROUND Access to quality health care is a fundamental determinant of health outcomes. However, disparities in access to health care persist among minority populations, including Latino communities in the United...
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2025Arts and Culture Culture Through Art Project
About the ProjectThe Culture Through Art Project is an arts initiative led by HACER over the past two years.The program was created to provide families in southern Minnesota with a...
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2025Civic Engagement Hispanic Outreach Survey
Project background Purpose The survey focused on addressing Project Goal 1 and 3 of the Meet. Learn. Share 2.0 program implemented by Hispanic Outreach: • Project Goal 1: Increase social connectedness and belonging...
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2025Education and Youth Supporting Latino Parents in Addressing Bullying Among Latino Youth – PHASE II
Project Background Bullying continues to affect many families and has deep, long-lasting emotional impacts. It is defined as the repeated use of power to harm another person through unwanted words...
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2024Arts and Culture Latino Access To The Arts in Minnesota
Latino Access To The Arts In Minnesota BACKGROUND AND METHODS Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER), in collaboration with the Minnesota State Arts Board (MNSAB), conducted a series of...
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2024Economic Development and Entrepreneurship From Research to Action: Empowering Latina Entrepreneurs in Minnesota
From Research to Action: Empowering Latina Entrepreneurs in Minnesota De la Investigacion a la Accion: Empoderando a Emprendedoras Latinas en Minnesota ENGLISHWelcome to our resource page, created as part of...
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2024Public Health Education and Prevention of Breast Cancer among Latinas in Southern Minnesota
Project Background Prioritizing the health of all Minnesotans is essential to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to live a full and healthy life. In Minnesota, as in the rest of...
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2024Education and Youth Supporting Latino Parents in Addressing Bullying Among Latino Youth
Project Background Bullying is an act that still affects many people today and that has deep emotional long-lasting impacts. Bullying is defined as an act that happens “when someone aggressively uses...
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2024Public Health Insights and Best Practices from HACER’s COVID-19 Response
Executive Summary Impacts of COVID-19 on the Latino Population In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a national lockdown in the United States that...
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