Timeline

• Dr. Gloria Mattera dies. Robert Lynch succeeds her as Center Director.
• Scholarship Fund becomes Gloria & Joseph Mattera National Scholarship Fund for Migrant Children.
• VISTA migrant literacy project starts.
• Students in Service to Migrants, funded by ACTION recruits SUNY Geneseo volunteers.
• MESA project studies secondary education.
• WEEA Windows program serves migrant women.

• Food pantry established at Holcomb Building.
• MFEL program coordinates English literacy services for five NYS migrant education centers.

• Mexican Migrant Traditions exhibit opens.
• Center becomes eastern satellite for National Program for Secondary Credit Exchange/Accrual.
• PRIME project studies parental involvement.

• Passages: A Celebration of Migrant Arts exhibit opens.
• Geneseo Migrant Center incorporates as a not-for-profit arm of BGMC.
• The Algonquin World exhibit opens.

• WOW (later, WIN) workshops explore gender issues and careers for young women.

• HHS-funded Movin' On Up (later, FIELDS) coordinates job training and placement services.

• Center conducts national study on post-secondary success factors.

• Permanent dental clinic site established in Mount Morris, in collaboration with Eastman Dental Center.
• CONNECTIONS and HIPPY programs help migrant parents reinforce children's schooling, develop school readiness skills.

• Gender issues workshops expand to programs for young men (GAIN).
• Migrant Even Start Transitions program offers unified family literacy services.

• Center designated as National PASS Center to coordinate semi-independent study options for migrant students crossing state boundaries.

• Center joins Project ESTRELLA with Illinois, Texas, and Montana to facilitate cyber-mentoring and laptop computer access for migrant students.
• Geneseo Migrant Center celebrates 30th anniversary.

• research, training, and product development
• arts
• health services
• children's education
• secondary education
• young adult choices: gender roles, careers, college
• adult education and parental assistance

Center programs have received major funding from the New York State Departments of Education (NYSED), Labor (NYSDOL), Health (NYSDOH), Agriculture and Markets (NYSDAM) and Social Services (NYSDSS/Refugee Assistance Program); from the Education Departments of other states; from programs of the United States Departments of Education (USDE), Labor (USDL), and Health and Human Services (USDHHS); and from Livingston County (Community Services Block Grants to Literacy Volunteers of America).

Other public and private agencies have also generously supported the Center's educational, social service, health, and arts programs.