ERIC ED437264: Directory of Services for Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers and Their Families. Harvests of Hope.

137 Pages·1999·2.1 MB·English

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DOCUMENT RESUME
ED 437 264
RC 022 232
TITLE
Directory of Services for Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers
and Their Families. Harvests of Hope.
INSTITUTION
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (ED),
Washington, DC. Office of Migrant Education.
PUB DATE
1999-00-00
NOTE
144p.; For the 1997 directory, see ED 412 038.
AVAILABLE FROM
U.S. Department of Education, Publications Office,
Washington, D.C. 20202-6135. Tel: [phone] (Toll Free).
PUB TYPE
Reference Materials
Directories/Catalogs (132)
EDRS PRICE
MF01/PC06 Plus Postage.
DESCRIPTORS
Advocacy; Elementary Secondary Education; Family Programs;
Federal Government; *Federal Programs; *Human Services;
Legal Aid; *Migrant Education; Migrant Health Services;
*Migrant Programs; Migrant Workers; *National Organizations;
National Programs; Preschool Education; *State Agencies;
State Programs
Nutrition Services
IDENTIFIERS
ABSTRACT
This directory provides information on federal and state
programs and national organizations that serve migrant farmworkers and their
families. Section 1 covers federal programs that provide services related to
nutrition, housing, education, health and human services, immigration,
agricultural employment, and environmental protection. Federal education
programs include those administered by the Office of Bilingual Education and
Minority Languages Affairs, the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education,
and the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. Information
on federal-level contacts and on program purpose and administration are
included. Section 2 describes 20 national organizations that offer services
to migrant workers and their families. Following a list of additional
national offices, section 3 is organized by state or territory and includes
contact information for state migrant programs; state coordinators,
directors, or offices of federally-funded programs; migrant Head Start
grantees; migrant health centers; migrant legal assistance offices; and state
monitor advocates. Appendices list publications and other resources of the
Office of Pesticide Programs and present a matrix of eligibility requirements
for various federal migrant programs.
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Contents
Foreword
vii
Acronyms
ix
Section 1. Federal Programs
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1.1
Food and Nutrition Service
Rural Housing Service
3
U.S. Department of Education
4
1.2.
Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs
4
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
6
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
8
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
9
1.3.
Administration for Children and Families
9
U.S. Department of Justice
10
1.4.
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Immigration and Naturalization Service
U.S. Department of Labor
1.5.
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Employment and Training Administration
I I
Employment Standards Administration
12
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy
12
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1.6.
13
Environmental Protection Agency
13
Section 2. National Organizations: Services to Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers
and Their Families
Academy for Educational Development
2.1.
15
AgrAbility Project
2.2.
15
American Association of Retired Persons
2.3.
16
Association of Farnriworker Opportunity Programs
2.4.
16
Children's Defense Fund
2.5.
16
East Coast Migrant Head Start Project
2.6.
17
Eastern Stream Center on Resources and Training (ESCORT)
2.7.
17
Education Resources Information Center Clearinghouse on Rural Education
2.8.
and Small Schools (ERIC/CRESS)
17
Farmworker Justice Fund
2.9.
18
Housing Assistance Council
2.10.
18
Interstate Migrant Education Council
2.1
18
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Migrant Legal Action Program
2.12.
I 8
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
2.13.
19
Migration and Refugee Services/Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees
2.14.
19
National Association of Community Health Centers
2.15.
19
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National Center for Farmworker Health
20
2.16.
National Coalition of Hispanic and Human Service Organizations
20
2.17.
National Council of La Raza
2.18.
21
Reading Is Fundamental
2.19.
21
Rural Community Assistance Program
2.20.
21
Section 3. State and Territorial Government and Nongovernmental Organizations
National Offices
23
3.1,
Alabama
26
3.2.
Alaska
27
3.3.
Arizona
28
3.4.
Arkansas
30
3.5.
California
3.6.
31
Colorado
3.7.
37
Connecticut
3.8.
39
Delaware
40
3.9.
District of Columbia
42
3.10.
Florida
3.11.
43
Georgia
46
3.12.
Hawaii
48
3.13.
Idaho
3.14.
49
Illinois
3.15.
51
Indiana
52
3.16.
Iowa
54
3.17.
3.18. Kansas
55
Kentucky
3.19.
57
Louisiana
3.20.
58
Maine
3.21.
59
Maryland
3.22.
61
Massachusetts
3.23.
63
Michigan
3.24.
64
Minnesota
3.25.
66
Mississippi
3.26.
68
Missouri
3.27.
69
Montana
3.28.
70.
Nebraska
72
3.29.
Nevada
3.30.
73
New Hampshire
3.31.
74
New Jersey
3.32.
75
New Mexico
3.33.
76
New York
3.34.
78
North Carolina
3.35.
80
North Dakota
3.36.
82
Ohio
3.37.
84
Oklahoma
3.38.
85
Oregon
3.39.
86
Pennsylvania
3.40.
88
Rhode Island
3.41.
91
South Carolina
3
91
South Dakota
3.43.
93
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Tennessee
3.44.
96
Texas
3.45.
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Utah
3.46.
Vermont
103
3.47.
104
Virginia
3.48.
Washington
105
3.49.
West Virginia
108
3.50.
Wisconsin
109
3.51.
Wyoming
3.52.
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112
American Samoa
3.53.
Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands
112
3.54.
112
Guam
3.55.
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Marshall Islands
3.56.
113
Micronesia
3.57.
113
Palau
3.58.
Puerto Rico
113
3.59.
Virgin Islands
115
3.60.
Appendix A: Office of Pesticide Programs: Certification, Worker Protection Branch
117
Appendix B: Eligibility Matrix
123
Foreword
The Office of Migrant Education is pleased to provide you with this copy of the 1999 Directory of Services for Migrant and
Seasonal Farmworkers and Their Families. Federal programs and national organizations that serve migrant farmworkers and their
families share a, common goal: to improve the effectiveness of services to meet the needs of farmworkers and their families.
Migrant families often experience difficulty in receiving continuous high quality services because of their high rate of mobility,
cultural and language barriers, social isolation, health-related problems, disruption of their children's education, and the lack of
resources in the areas in which they live and work.
Farmworker families are more likely to have their basic needs met and to contribute to our nation's wealth and well-being
when they receive coordinated services from the various agencies and organizations that are entrusted with protecting and
serving them.This directory is part of the Office of Migrant Education's continuing effort to improve coordination among health,
education, early childhood, housing, employment, environmental, community service, and legal programs that serve farmworkers
and their families.
This publication was developed collaboratively by the programs represented within and is intended to provide information
on the services available to migrant farmworkers and their families. It includes both federal and non-federal programs, as well as
It is NOT
field offices for those programs.The directory is written to provide basic information on programs and services.
intended to provide legal guidance concerning statutes and regulations related to services for migrants.
The U.S. Department of Education plans to update and distribute this publication periodically. If you have any suggestions,
please write us at the address provided below.
If you would like additional copies of the directory, please contact the U.S.
Department of Education's publications office at 1-800-USA-LEARN (1-800-872-5327).
We hope this directory will help improve federal, state and local coordination efforts and will benefit migrant families
throughout the nation.
Francisco Garcia
Director
Office of Migrant Education
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C.
20202-6135
260-1164
Telephone:
(202)
205-0089
(202)
Fax
Web Site:
www.ed.gov
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Fall
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Acronyms
American Association of Retired Persons
AARP
Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs
AFOP
Child and Adult Care Food Program
CACFP
Community Based Organization
CBO
National Coalition of Hispanic and Human Service Organizations
COSSMHO
Expanded Food and Nutrition Program
EFNEP
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Eastern Stream Center on Resources and Training
ESCORT
Food and Nutrition Service
FNS
General Education Diploma
GED
HAC
Housing Assistance Council
Temporary Alien Agricultural Labor Certification Program
H-2A
Institution of Higher Education
IHE
Indian Health Service
IHS
Interstate Migrant Education Council
IMEC
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
IRCA
Local Education Agency
LEA
Limited English Proficient
LEP
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
MALDEF
Migrant Legal Action Program
MLAP
Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act
MSPA
NACHC
National Association of Community Health Centers
NAWS
National Agricultural Workers Survey
National Center for Farmworker Health
NCFH
National Council of La Raza
NCLR
National School Lunch Program
NSLP
Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs
OBEMLA
Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices
OSC
Rural Community Assistance Program
RCAP
Rural Housing Service
RHS
Reading is Fundamental
RIF
State Education Agency
SEA
Summer Food Service Program
SFSP
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
WIC
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children
WPS
Worker Protection Standards
ST COPY AVALABLE
Section 1. Federal Programs
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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migrant children age 15 and younger in day
Food and Nutrition Service
care homes and centers, Head Start programs,
and homeless shelters. It provides snacks to
Mr. Samuel Chambers, Jr
youth through age 18 in afterschool care pro-
Administrator
grams, and it also serves meals and snacks to
USDA FNS
impaired adults who receive adult day care.
3101 Park Center Drive
The Summer Food Service Program
Alexandria,Virginia 22302
provides free meals and snacks to low-income
www.fns.usda.gov
children age 18 and younger during long
Nutrition Program Facts series, Facts About
Publications:
school vacations. Establishing eligibility is easier,
the Food Stamp Program, and factsheets on
meal service times are more flexible, and an
food stamp certification policy
additional meal benefit is available at sites serv-
ing migrant children.
State agencies administer these programs,
Administered by:
Child Nutrition Programs
usually the state education department
Contact:
Mr. Stanley Garnett
Director
Child Nutrition Division
Address:
USDA FNS
3101 Park Center Drive
Alexandria,Virginia 22302
[phone]
Telephone:
[phone]
Fax:
[email protected]
E-mail:
USDA's Child Nutrition Programs help chil-
Purpose:
dren get the nutrition they need to learn, play,
and grow.
The National School Lunch Program
provides nutritious lunches and snacks at free
and reduced prices to low-income children
while they are in school, in afterschool care,
or in summer school.
The School Breakfast Program ensures
that children get a healthy start each day with
a nutritious breakfast at school.
The Special Milk Program offers half pints
of milk to children.
The Child and Adult Care Food Pro-
gram extends meal service benefits to
9
Section I.
Federal Programs
2
Food Stamp Program
been implemented in response to the unique
needs of the migrant population. For example,
Contact:
Ms. Susan Carr Gossman
a verification of certification card is issued to
Deputy Administrator
ensure continuity of WIC benefits as migrant
Food Stamp Program
Address:
participants move from one area or state to
USDA, FNS
another.The Bureau of Primary Health Care,
3101 Park Center Drive
and the Indian Health Service (IHS), Depart-
Alexandria,Virginia 22302
ment of Health and Human Services cooper-
[phone]
Telephone:
ated with the Food and Nutrition Service at
[phone]
Fax:
the Federal level to increase the extent of
[email protected]
E-mail:
co-location, integration, and coordination of
WIC services at Community and Migrant
The Food Stamp Program serves as the first
Purpose:
Health Centers and IHS clinics in response
line of defense against hunger in the U.S. It
to WIC legislation. A manual of successful
enables low-income families to buy nutritious
coordination efforts is expected to be pro-
food with coupons or Electronic Benefits
duced in the fall of 1999.
Transfer (EBT) cards. Migrant or seasonal
Food and Nutrition Service at the national
Administered by:
farmworker households are entitled to expe-
level; state agencies (state health depart-
dited service if they are destitute, and if eligible
ments), including the District of Columbia,
for food stamps,they must receive food stamps
Guam, Puerto Rico, IndianTribal Organizations,
within 7 days. Migrant households receive a full
American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands; and
month's allotment of food stamps (rather than
approximately 1,800 local agencies oversee-
an allotment prorated from the date of applica-
ing more than 10,000 clinics.
tion) if they participated in the program within
"How WIC Helps," USDA Food and Nutri-
Publications:
the last 30 days.
tion Service, PA- 1 198 (English), PA- I
I 98-S
Administered by: State social service agencies administer this
(Spanish); "WIC Makes a Difference," USDA
program under the U.S. Department of
Food and Nutrition Service, PA-I446 (English);
Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service.
"WIC for your Baby's Sake," (poster describ-
ing benefits available to low-income pregnant
women), USDA Food and Nutrition Service,
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program
PA-1144 (English); "Pregnant? Drugs and Al-
for Women, Infants and Children
cohol Can HurtYour Unbom Baby" pamphlet,
USDA Food and Nutrition Service, PA-I464
Contact
Mrs. Patricia N. Daniels
(English); "Pregnant? Drugs and Alcohol Can
Director
HurtYour Unborn Baby" poster, USDA Food
Address:
Supplemental Foods Program
and Nutrition Service, PA-1469 (English), PA-
USDA, FNS
1 469 -S (Spanish)
3101 Park Center Drive, Room 540
Alexandria,Virginia 22302
[phone]
Telephone:
[phone]
Fax
WICHQ- [email protected]
E-mail:
Web Site:
www.fns.usda.gov/wic
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program
Purpose:
for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Pro-
gram provides specific nutritious supplemen-
tal foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding
promotion and support and referral to health
care services.WIC provides these services and
benefits to low-income pregnant postpartum,
and breastfeeding women, infants, and chil-
dren up to age five who are at nutritional risk
A number of special program provisions have
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