The Center for Patient Partnerships (CPP) based at the University of Wisconsin Law School has produced a video in the Hmong language to reach out to the Hmong community with information on access to health care.

"Body and Spirit: Healing Your Way" is the result of two years of work "by folks who do and don’t speak Hmong," says Attorney Sarah Davis, Associate Director of the CPP.

A grant from the American Cancer Society funded an original focus group two years ago on reaching both the Latino and Hmong communities, and an Evjue Foundation Grant supported production of the Hmong video itself, which is in DVD format.

"It carries a message from people in the Hmong community to others in the community, saying that you don’t have to give up your spiritual beliefs and what you value to explore the use of American medicine to help you," Davis says.

The video in Hmong will be distributed to many Hmong national networks. "We think it will have interest beyond Madison and beyond Wisconsin," Davis says.

The Hmong video itself is on the CPP Web site for sample viewing. See

http://law.wisc.edu/media/index.php?iStreamID=171 .

Brochures in Hmong and in Spanish are also available on the CPP Web site:

http://www.law.wisc.edu/patientadvocacy/resources/multicultural.html .

Submitted by on September 26, 2007

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