New Tobacco Research Finds Minnesota's Latino Population Smoking Significantly Less than General ... (phone interviewsand achieved a 50 percen...)

New Tobacco Research Finds Minnesota's Latino Population Smoking Significantly Less than General Population

Date:12/4/2008

phone interviews and achieved a 50 percent response rate from a random sample of Minnesota Latino community members. The 805 respondents were located in the 11 county metro region, six southern counties, and three northwestern counties.

Communidades Latinas Unidas en Servicio (CLUES) was established in 1981. The organization's mission is to "enhance the quality of the Latino community in Minnesota." CLUES started as a mental health service agency addressing the unique cultural and language needs of Spanish-speaking Latinos. CLUES is now Minnesota's largest Latino human services agency, providing a comprehensive array of self-sufficiency and behavioral health services for Latino children, families, and individuals. Core services include mental health, chemical health, employment, education, aging-well, and family services. CLUES is one of the few agencies to provide linguistically appropriate and culturally proficient services to Spanish speakers in Minnesota and the only one that is a dual-diagnostic provider of both chemical and mental health services. All direct service staff members are bilingual and culturally competent. In 2007, CLUES had more than 30,000 client visits at three sites in Minneapolis, East St. Paul, and West St. Paul.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, with headquarters in the St. Paul suburb of Eagan, was chartered in 1933 as Minnesota's first health plan and continues to carry out its charter mission today: to promote a wider, more economical and timely availability of health services for the people of Minnesota. A nonprofit, taxable organization, Blue Cross is the largest health plan based in Minnesota, covering 2.9 million members in Minnesota and nationally through its health plans or plans administered by its affiliated companies. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, headquartered in Chicago. Go to '/>"/>

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