Winner Profile: Texas Migrant Council, Inc. (TMC)

Author:	Viviana Costa
Contact:	Viviana Costa
Date:	Mar 15, 2005
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Program:	Affiliate Awards Program
Region:	Texas

Summary

The Migrant/Seasonal Head Start Family Literacy Program run by Texas Migrant Council, Inc., was the recipient of the 2005 Family Strengthening Award for the Texas region.

Description

Affiliate Organization: Texas Migrant Council, Inc.

Region: Texas

Winning Program: Migrant/Seasonal Head Start Family Literacy Program (MSHS Family Literacy Program)

Texas Migrant Council, Inc.(TMC) is a five-state multiservice agency that strives to improve the conditions of low-income families – particularly migrant and seasonal farm workers – by providing health care, day care, adult education, employment services, and infant/ toddler/ preschool education in 64 Head Start centers. Through ELL, literacy, and adult basic education, job training, and parent-child mentoring, the MSHS Family Literacy Program improves educational and job opportunities for parents and boosts their children’s academic performance. This program gives Hispanic migrant families an opportunity to advance on an educational and professional level and to be a resource throughout their own children’s schooling. TMC has family literacy services for farmworker adults in ten towns within three service states and to date has served more than 650 farmworkers through this program. Services include ABE reading and writing classes, ELL classes, GED tutorial assistance, community referrals for education, home parent-child early literacy programs, and life skills/job training development.