Steve Shore Community Catalyst Award
In 2003, the North Carolina Community Health Care Association (NCCHCA), formerly known as North Carolina Primary Health Care Association, celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary. To commemorate this important milestone, NCCHCA chose to recognize its migrant health legacy through the creation of the annual Steve Shore Community Catalyst Award.
Steve Shore was the second Executive Director of NCCHCA, serving in this position for eleven years from 1987 to 1998. It was under his leadership that NCCHCA initiated several important migrant health activities, many of which are still in place today:
z As a joint effort of NCCHCA and the former Migrant Health Branch, Bureau of Primary Health Care, the positions of Migrant Health Specialist (1988) and Migrant Stream Coordinator (1994) were established within NCCHCA to coordinate migrant health activities in NC and 21 East Coast states.
z In 1988, NCCHCA produced the first East Coast Migrant Stream Forum, an annual conference that provides migrant health professionals on the east coast continuing education and networking opportunities aimed at improving health care delivery to migrant and seasonal farmworkers. The first Forum was hosted in Asheville, NC, and continues to “migrate” each year to a different “host state” along the east coast. The Stream Forum concept was replicated in the Midwest and on the West Coast.
As a tribute to Steve Shore and his commitment to improving the health and well being of farmworkers, NCCHCA will honor the legacies of others who share this same vision through the Steve Shore Community Catalyst Award. Each year, through a nomination and selection process, NCCHCA will identify one individual, program or agency, directly or indirectly involved in farmworker health, whose work has incited positive change in the health and wellness of the farmworker community in the “host state” of the East Coast Migrant Stream Forum or a cluster of states. In 2008, the Forum’s host state is Rhode Island.
In 2008, an individual, program, or agency, directly or indirectly involved in farmworker health services, who has demonstrated excellence and outstanding commitment to improving the health and well being of farmworkers in the New England States (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont) are eligible for the award. Nominees are not restricted to federally funded Migrant/Community Health Centers and Migrant Health Programs, but can also represent government and non-governmental community and faith-based agencies and programs.
If you wish to nominate someone please submit a form today!
