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East Coast Migrant Head Start Project: A History of Service to Farmworker

Families

Who We Are

East Coast Migrant Head Start Project is a non-profit corporation that provides high-quality and comprehensive Head Start services to farmworker families.

Why We Exist

ECMHSP is committed to preparing the children of migrant and seasonal farmworkers for success.

We do this by providing holistic, high-quality early childhood education services for children and families in a nurturing, culturally-sensitive environment and by providing services and advocating for children and families in their other areas of need.

Where We Are

ECMHSP operates 36 MSHS centers and 2 EHS centers in rural communities from Lake Okeechobee,

Florida to Lake Erie, Pennsylvania

Where We Are

Alabama

Chandler Mountain Loxley Semmes

3810 Wulff Road East, Suite CSemmes, Alabama 36575Phone: (251)-645-5246

4484 Chandler Mountain RoadSteele, Alabama 35987Phone: (256) 570-0710

16742 County Road 68Loxley, Alabama 36551Phone: (251) 960-1060

Where We Are

Florida EastFort Pierce Indiantown Okeechobee I

Okeechobee II Shannon South Bay

1003 NW 2nd Street 2050 Duda Road 475 US Highway 27 N

Okeechobee, Florida 34972 Belle Glade, Florida 33430 South Bay, Florida 33493

Phone: (863) 467-6930 Phone: (561) 996-2232 Phone: (561) 996-2939

1803 North 21st StreetFort Pierce, Florida 34950Phone: (772) 465-9135

16489 SW Farms Road Building EIndiantown, Florida 34956Phone: (772) 597-3019

726 NE 16th AvenueOkeechobee, Florida 34972Phone: (863) 467-0702

Where We Are

Florida WestBowling Green Fort Meade La Familia

Myakka Wauchula Florida Head Start

34590 State Road 64 EMyakka, Florida 34251Phone: (941) 322-6064

107 6th Street SEFort Meade, Florida 33841Phone: (863) 285-8210

351 Frederick AvenueDundee, Florida 33838Phone: (863) 439-0864

5115 Doyle Parker Ave Bowling Green, FL 33834 Phone: (863) 375-2100

604 Martin Luther King Jr. AvenueWauchula, Florida 33873Phone: (863) 773-2815

3700 DMG DriveLakeland, Florida 33811Phone: (863) 299-7100

Where We Are

North CarolinaBailey Bladen Faison

Fountain Long Creek

7656 Highway 222 EFountain, North Carolina 27829Phone: (252) 749-4011

10016 Highway NC 210 EIvanhoe, North Carolina 28447Phone: (910) 669-2073

2669 NC Highway 403 WFaison, North Carolina 28341Phone: (910) 267-11144

4562 US HWY 264-ABailey, North Carolina 27807Phone: (252) 235-2503

23280 NC Highway 210 WRocky Point, North Carolina 28457Phone: (910) 259-7491

Where We Are

South CarolinaColleton Manning St. Helena

621-A West Huggins StreetManning, South Carolina 29102Phone: (803) 435-8427

1029 Sea Island ParkwaySt. Helena, South Carolina 29920Phone: (843) 838-0992

14405 Bells HighwayLodge, South Carolina 29082Phone: (843) 866-2051

Where We Are

VirginiaCheriton Parksley

20344 Lankford HighwayParksley, Virginia 23421Phone: (757) 665-4976

22198 S. Bayside RoadCheriton, Virginia 23316Phone: (757) 331-4897

Where We Are – Delegate Agencies

In addition to serving farmworker families directly, East Coast Migrant Head Start Project also serves farmworker families by funding non-profits who operate programs in communities where ECMHSP lacks a local presence.

Benedictine Sisters of Erie, PA: Erie County, Pennsylvania

PathStone Corporation: Cumberland County and Atlantic County, New Jersey; Adams County, Berks County, Chester County, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania

Yadkin Valley Economic Yadkin County, North CarolinaDevelopment District, Inc.

What we do: Disability Services

• ECMHSP welcomes children with disabilities into our program.

• ECMHSP partners with therapists, local school systems and early intervention programs to ensure each child's growth and development.

What we do: Disability Services

Our team of Disability Services Coordinators ensures that each child in our care is fully included and engaged in classroom activities and routines.

What we do: Early Childhood Education

• ECMHSP early education services are designed to put each child we serve on a path to school success.

• Our culturally-responsive curriculum targets the language, literacy, and other school readiness skills of older toddlers and preschoolers in each

of their languages.

What we do: Early Head Start

• The goal of ECMHSP’s EHS programs is to help families care for their infants and toddlers through early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive services. Through this program we serve pregnant women, infants, and toddlers until age 3.

What we do: Health Services

• ECMHSP partners with local community-based organizations to provide a variety of health services for children aged zero to six.

• In addition, mental health consultants visit each of our centers on a regular basis, to provide guidance in meeting the socio-emotional needs of each child.

What we do: Nutrition

• ECMHSP offers comprehensive nutrition services to the children we serve.

• We train our parents to plan healthy meals, shopping on a budget, and the benefits of breast feeding.

What we do: Transportation

• Without transportation services, many children living in poverty would not receive a Head Start. This is especially true in Migrant Head Start Programs.

• We at ECMHSP meet this need by providing safe and on time transportation services in modern, environmentally-controlled school buses, in accordance with Federal and State Laws.

How Our Service Affects The Life Of Our Farmworkers and the Community

Through our interaction with the community and our partners the children we serve and their families are able to highlight their experiences.

This enables the wider community to become more aware of service, sacrifices and how vital the work is in feeding the nation.

2015-16 National Public Radio Series on the Farmworker Experience

Five stories aired on NPR featuring the farmworker experience.

Each story featured an ECMHSP family, or included an ECMHSP parent as part of the story.

Key to success were parents who were willing to share their work and experience with nation, and local staff able to connect reporter to story.

Insider the Life of an Apple Picker,October 23, 2015

Behind Your Holiday Sweet Potato Dish, Hard Work in the Fields, November 24, 2015

Guest Workers, Legal But Not Quite Free Pick Florida Oranges – January 28, 2016

In Florida, Strawberry Fields are Not Forever, March 21, 2016

For Pickers, Blueberries Mean Easier Labor but More Upheaval, July 13, 2016

Learning More About Us

Annual Report Website

www.ecmhsp.org

Learning More About Us

ECMHSP Facebook Page

From Harvest to Head Start

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