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Brendan H. O'Connor; Seline Szkupinski Quiroga – Grantee Submission, 2024
The College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) is a US Department of Education funded initiative to support students from migrant/seasonal farmworker backgrounds--i.e., students whose families travel seasonally to work in agriculture--during their first year as undergraduates. This article shares authors' experience of using insights from…
Descriptors: Migrant Programs, Seasonal Laborers, Migrant Adult Education, Minority Group Students
Arnold, John D. – 1985
Program rationale, goals, and strategies are outlined in this description of Arizona-based centers which trained migrant workers in the use of microcomputers for business and clerical applications. Topics include the need to create new jobs for displaced farm workers, the assets farm workers bring to the business world, the training-related…
Descriptors: Data Processing Occupations, Job Training, Migrant Adult Education, Migrant Programs

Dimidjian, Victoria Jean – Childhood Education, 2001
Describes the Even Start Family Literacy Program in Immokalee, Florida, which has helped parents gain language skills, find community connections and services, and learn parenting and job skills, while also providing their children with positive educational experiences. Includes case studies of four families, as well as listing program…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Children, Family Literacy
Council for Cultural Cooperation, Strasbourg (France). – 1979
Specific objectives of the May 1979 colloquy of the Council for Cultural Co-operation of the Council of Europe are described as: (1) to present and discuss three pilot projects in France, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Sweden for developing language learning objectives for adult migrants; (2) to produce plans for further modern language…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingual Education, Migrant Adult Education, Migrant Programs

Fountain, Cheryl – Journal of Employment Counseling, 1983
Describes an educational program designed to help Florida migrant workers (N=39) obtain the equivalent of a high school diploma, provide career education, and broaden cultural horizons. The project positively and significantly affected not only the students but also the community and the college faculty. (WAS)
Descriptors: Career Education, Employment Potential, Enrichment Activities, High School Equivalency Programs
Rey, Micheline – 1983
The Coimbra (Portugal) Community Awareness Project is intended to remedy the social problems caused by migration by helping a local community take responsibility for its own affairs, understand the interactions at work, and enable both residents and emigrants to benefit together from migration. The project operates at several levels under the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Community Attitudes, Community Development
California Human Development Corp. – 1991
The California Human Development Corporation's Rural Workplace Literacy Project (RWLP) provided migrant and seasonal farmworkers with on-site workplace literacy training designed to enhance their ability to develop job skills. During 1990-91, it provided literacy classes at 15 agricultural worksites and enrolled 282 farmworkers. Of students…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Illiteracy, Job Skills
Villarreal, Oscar L.
Operating various programs, the Texas Migrant Council, a multi-service agency, administers assistance to migrants during their stay in their home base state, as well as on their migrant trek. Its Head Start program serves mobile migrant children from the ages of 0 to 5 and gives continuity of services by following them to the northern states…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Child Abuse, Early Childhood Education, Educational Programs
Magner, Eleanor; Phillips, Linda – 2001
The Fredonia Migrant Education Outreach Program serves not only the educational needs of migrant students in western New York, but also health, nutrition and other needs of the students and their families. The program's unique feature is its in-home programs. Developed at the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Fredonia, there are now…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Empowerment
Weseman, Marcus – 1980
The United States Departments of Energy (DOE) and Labor (DOL) have cosponsored a number of demonstration programs to train economically disadvantaged migrant and seasonal farmworkers for energy-related technical and skilled occupations. A descriptive study of the first DOE/DOL demonstration was made to determine the impact of training on…
Descriptors: Adults, Agricultural Laborers, Demonstration Programs, Employment Programs
Texas Migrant Council, Inc., Laredo.
Since 1969 a bright yellow van with "Texas Migrant Council" painted on the side has symbolized hope for progress for thousands of Texas migrants. The van itself is a mobile school that follows migrant families out of their home base state of Texas to northern labor camps each summer. It brings with it books, teachers, health care, hot…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Alcoholism, Child Abuse, Early Childhood Education