Cuentos de Confianza Support Community Health

Image Designed by UWM student, Ricardo Roderick-Cornejo.

Community health promoters (promotores de salud) across Wisconsin have been working with former CLACS faculty fellow Dr. Rachel Bloom-Pojar since 2021 to share their stories about working with sexual and reproductive health. The Cuentos de Confianza project began as a small community writing class and evolved into a bilingual digital space that highlights stories written by Latina health promoters and educators about their personal experiences and community work on the path toward reproductive justice.

Pictured is the second cohort of writers along with Dr. Rachel Bloom-Pojar and her son at their graduation party June 2024 to celebrate the writers and launch of their stories.

The stories are used in community settings across Wisconsin, Puerto Rico, and Peru to facilitate conversations about mental health, parenting, personal growth, immigration, gender roles, infertility, domestic violence, and more. Thanks to the support of UWM’s SURF program and the Office of Undergraduate Research, LACUSL and Linguistics major Raquel Quevedo has worked as the Cuentos team translator for the past year and is currently conducting research on multilingual user experience with the website. Learn more about the PPWI promotores de salud program here.