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Community health workers seek out women in immigrant communities on their turf and in their language. In some Vietnamese neighborhoods that means going to cosmetology trainings to meet workers headed for nail salons.
The lure of the Old Country often tugs at Iranian American women. But some find visits to Iran fraught with questions that range from the geopolitical to the personal: Will war break out? How much hair can be exposed without risking arrest?
In a promising mental-health approach, female students at two universities are visiting high schools and talking to female teens about their personal experiences with depression, eating disorders and sexual assault.