Program areas at Migrant Farmworkers Assistance Fund
Health Care Case Management - MFAF provides bilingual case management for farmworkers and their families for approximately 600 medical, dental, and behavioral health appointments annually. Services include labor camp outreach visits, assessment and screenings of health needs, coordinating with clients and orchard owners, interpretation, transportation, medication assistance and delivery, record-keeping, advocacy, and applications for Medicaid and discount programs.
Youth Development - MFAF staff create and provide fun, appropriate, and relevant programs to engage farmworker youth, to cultivate youth development and leadership, to focus on educational and creative enrichment and facilitate summer programs and camp opportunities. Programs include Teen Empowerment Collective, Girls Group, summer camps, field trips and individual educational support programs.
Emergency Assistance - Services include legal services, individual assistance with healthcare co-pays and medications, distribution of food bags, backpacks with school supplies, child car seats, clothing, hygiene and sun kits; laundry soap and other supplies.
Education Support - MFAF staff facilitate and assist in many forms of educational support from birth through adulthood. Services include assistance and interpretation for: Parents as Teachers in-home interpretation with young children, Migrant Head Start, preschool, school enrollments, contact with three different school districts, parent-teacher conferences, Individual Education Plans for special needs in school, ACT test preparation and coordination, college planning, college visits for students and parents, scholarship applications, GED and ESL class support; support for students in college programs.
Community Building - MFAF staff provide social and educational opportunities for community building to bring together farmworkers living in isolated rural settings across a 55-mile span of orchards. These include: Monday night distributions during the peach and apple harvest season, off-season Womens Group sessions, adult education topical programs, an annual Christmas dinner and an annual Graduation dinner to recognize graduating students and their parents and to encourage community support for education. MFAF staff also provide information to the rural communities to better understand the lives of the migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families.