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Overview
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Geneseo Migrant Center provides a variety of services to migrant
farmworkers residing in the immediate service area of the Center
as well as coordinating programs benefiting migrant workers on
a regional, statewide and national level. |
| The services of the Geneseo Migrant Center are administered by two organizational entities: the Genesee Valley Educational Partnership, an intermediate educational agency serving twenty-two school districts and the Geneseo Migrant Center, Inc., a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit community services agency. |
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Camp ABE / ESL / GED Instruction |
| Instructors provide adult basic education instruction throughout the migrant season in area camps and homes. Instruction stresses the improvement of reading levels or English as a Second Language through the use of survival skills and other relevant learning activities. |
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| Migrant
Dental / Health Programs |
| An outreach team offers in-camp screenings, mid-level care, and referrals while a dental team provides education, examinations, cleaning, fillings, and extractions in offices in Leicester, New York. This program is conducted in conjunction with the Finger Lakes Health Care Project. |
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Artists Migrant Program Services (CAMPS) |
| CAMPS provides arts activities including music, arts and crafts, drawing and painting, photography, and sculpture. Field trips to various art activities and events take place throughout the season. The project preserves and displays traditional arts and practices through various art exhibitions. |
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| Migrant
Literature Project |
| Poets and fiction writers present readings of their own work and/or the work of other writers as well as conducting writing workshops for migrant workers. |
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| Esperanza |
| Special educational and support services
for migrant children who also meet Federal criteria as
homeless. Administered through the East Bloomfield Central
School. |
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| Genesee Valley Migrant Education
Outreach Program (MEOP) |
| The Genesee Valley MEOP serves children, ages 3-21, whose families have moved across school district lines for employment in agriculture. Service area extends over 6 counties and 36 school districts where family educators, teaching assistants, and outreach workers are engaged in tutoring, ESL instruction, adolescent outreach, summer educational programs, and family literacy and support activities. |
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| Mobile
Migrant EVEN START |
| Mobile Migrant EVEN START provides in-home family literacy instruction for migrant farmworker families in western New York State through services at Migrant Education Outreach Program (MEOP) sites in Brockport and the Genesee Valley. |
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| PROMESA
Migrant EVEN START |
| Promesa Migrant EVEN START provides in-home family literacy instruction for migrant farmworker families in central and eastern New York State through services at Migrant Education Outreach Program (MEOP) sites in Herkimer, New Paltz, Oneonta, and Oswego. |
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| Comenzar EVEN START |
| Comenzar EVEN START provides in-home family literacy instruction for migrant farmworker families in New York State through services at Migrant Education Outreach Program (MEOP) sites in Brockport, Cortland, East Bloomfield, Fredonia, Potsdam, Oneonta, and Oswego. (Funded by U.S. Department of Education, Migrant Education EVEN START – MEES). |
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| Getting Ahead In The New Millenium (GAIN) and Women, Options, and Work (WOW) |
| GAIN, for young men between the ages of 14 and 22, and WOW, for young women between the ages of 14 and 22, provide 3-day career retreats during which participants visit career sites, talk with role models, and take part in discussions and confidence building activities. This program is funded by NYS Migrant Education. |
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| National
PASS Center |
| The National PASS Center (NPC) was established in 1997 to serve as a national clearinghouse and coordinating center for bringing PASS (Portable Assisted Study Sequence) courses into alignment with current academic learning standards. Located in western New York as part of the Geneseo Migrant Center, the NPC is charged with overseeing the development of academically rigorous yet accessible and cost-effective courses, providing support materials and trainings, and acting as a resource for information on program implementation, promising practices, and state contacts. The NPC is funded by state participation and distribution site license fees, as well as periodic, course-specific grants from various entities. |
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| Geneseo Migrant Center Clearinghouse |
| The Center has assembled a comprehensive collection of materials on migrant farmworker issues. Staff fill numerous requests for information from this collection. The Center also operates a toll-free hotline (1-800-245-5681). |
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| Toys That Teach |
| Toys
That Teach provides new, educational toys to the children
of migrant farmworkers. |
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