Timeline

• Workshops for teachers of migrant children begin.

• Children's Demonstration School offers day care and all-day classes for migrant children.

• NYS Center for Migrant Studies founded, with Dr. Gloria Mattera as Director.
• Funded research program begins, applying results in workshops.

• Migrant Teacher Aide Training Program begins.
• Center receives AACTE award for research and training model.
• Center serves as umbrella agency for OEO-funded Bureau of Program Funding.

• In-camp adult vocational and basic education classes begin in three counties, later expand to seven counties.

• In-camp health screening, teenage evening and family weekend programs start.
• Bureau of Program Funding incorporates as PFI (now ROI, Rural Opportunities, Inc.), becomes independent of Center and College.

• Center becomes NYS Migrant Center.

• Project CHILD receives national validation.

• Joseph Mattera National Scholarship Fund for Migrant Children founded.

• First CAMPS arts programs for migrants.

• Migrant Heritage Studies Kit developed.

• Educational and career programs for migrant school dropouts begin; first issue of REAL TALK.

• Center celebrates 10th anniversary.
• Project CHILD funded as demonstration program for national dissemination.
• Literacy Volunteers of America, Center staff trainer, becomes national affiliate.

• Center becomes BOCES Geneseo Migrant Center (BGMC), affiliated with Genesee Valley Board of Cooperative Educational Services.

• Center publishes major study on farmworker alcohol use.

• Folk Arts Program begins collecting and documenting migrant folk art.

• Migrant Heritage Studies Kit adds Haitian component.

• African Past: Migrant Present exhibit opens.

• First Mattera Scholarship Auction held at Eastern Stream Conference in Philadelphia, PA.
• FACES Program expands migrant service internship options for Geneseo students.