Amy DePaul, Author at Women's eNews

Immigrant Health Messengers Jump the Culture Gaps

By Amy DePaul ● Health & Science ● July 6, 2012

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.

Iranian American Women Caught Between Homelands

By Amy DePaul ● Uncategorized ● February 3, 2006

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?

College Students Offer Teens Frank Talk on Trauma

By Amy DePaul ● Arts & Culture ● April 20, 2004

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.

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Immigrant Health Messengers Jump the Culture Gaps

Iranian American Women Caught Between Homelands

College Students Offer Teens Frank Talk on Trauma