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Gerry Balcazar is a public health educator and professional trainer with over 20 years of experience working with diverse communities. As a professional health educator, Mr. Balcazar has worked with sensitive health issues in hard-to-reach communities through Public Health Departments, the University of California at Irvine, and diverse major non-profit organizations in California, developing professional development curricula for professional educators, health promotores and community leaders, and human sexuality and life skills curricula for foster youth, incarcerated youth, university students and faculty. He is a founding member of Latino Health Access, a non-profit, community-based organization in Santa Ana, California.

Mr. Balcazar has served as a consultant and leadership trainer for organizations including: The California State Department of Health Services Office of Family Planning; Latino Health Access; Latino Behavioral Health Institute; The Center for Health Training (Northern California); The Orange County Bar Foundation; Leadership Concepts, Inc., and as a national advisor for Health and Safety Programs of the American Red Cross. He has also served as a Senior Research Associate at the University of California Irvine, evaluating HIV Education and Prevention strategies for the National Institutes of Mental Health.

Mr. Balcazar has served on the Board of Directors for Latino Health Access, Grupo CRECER, Project Access, The Santa Ana Boys and Girls Club, and at several American Red Cross Chapters in Southern California.
 

Professional Presentations

Cultural Resiliency and Problem Gambling Prevention Among Latino Youth
California Friday Night Live
Partnership Consortium/Mentoring Training Institute
July 24-27, 2007
Palm Springs, CA

A Window Falls Prevention Project
California Department of Health and Human Services
Childhood Injury Prevention Teleconference
December 11, 2003

Beyond Brochures: Immigrants, Migrants and the Mainstream: How behavioral change considerations involving culture, social and economic elements are being designed into injury prevention to effectively reach Latino communities
Center for Injury Prevention Policy & Practice
California Injury Prevention Conference
September 2003
Los Angeles, CA

Trailblazers: New Paths to Effective Education
Emergency Cardiovascular Care
Update International Education Conference
Washington DC
September 2002
 

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