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Open doors and smiling faces at Parksley
LaShundra Weeks is the Center Director for the Parksley Migrant Head Start Center in Virginia. This is her experience at the center’s...
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ECMHSP Website
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
ECMHSP Celebrates Immigrant Heritage Month
Welcome.us and other organizations, celebrities, and community leaders in celebrating the contributions and diversity our immigrant...
ECMHSP Website
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
US Supreme Court Divided on DAPA/DACA+
Today, the eight Justices on the United States Supreme Court divided equally on the question of whether President Obama had the legal...
ECMHSP Website
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
NMSHSA’s 8th Public Policy Forum
Last week, the National Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Association (NMSHSA) held its 8th annual Public Policy Forum in Washington, DC on...
ECMHSP Website
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
ECMHSP Opens Center in St. Helena Island
St. Helena Island’s farmworker families drop off their children at the center. This week East Coast Migrant Head Start Project opened its...
ECMHSP Website
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
Opening Day at the Bladen Center!
Patti Kingery is the Head Start Administrator for ECMHSP’s Direct Services in North Carolina. This is her experience on opening day at a...
ECMHSP Website
- Nov 3, 2021
- 1 min
Find us on Facebook!
ECMHSP is now on Facebook, giving you a new way to stay connected with us and be up-to-date on our latest announcements. Click here to go...
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- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
Farmworker Families Need DAPA & DACA+
More than 4,000 people wait outside of the Supreme Court building during the oral arguments of DAPA and DACA+. This morning the United...
ECMHSP Website
- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
Guest Post: More than a Center, it’s a Refuge
Ted Hoffman is the architect who has been building Head Start centers with ECMHSP for the past 12 years. These are his thoughts. I was...
ECMHSP Website
- Nov 3, 2021
- 1 min
ECMHSP Guest Writes in Honor of NFAW
In honor of National Farmworker Awareness Week, ECMHSP’s John Menditto has written a guest blog post for Farmworker Justice’s blog,...
ECMHSP Website
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
ECMHSP Prepares for Florida’s Farmworker Families
Workers place the berries directly into the plastic clamshell packages that shoppers will find in stores. Photo credit: Dan Charles, NPR...
ECMHSP Website
- Nov 3, 2021
- 1 min
2015 Annual Report, Hot off the Press!
Dear Reader, ECMHSP is excited to announce the release of the 2015 Annual Report. See the names, faces, and numbers that made 2015 a...
ECMHSP Website
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
Cameras Rolling at La Familia Center
Daniel Jaime is the Center Director for La Familia Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Center in Florida. This is his experience working...
ECMHSP Website
- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
Representing East Coast families at NMSHSA Conference ’16
John Menditto presenting at the NMSHSA Conference. The National Migrant & Seasonal Head Start Association (NMSHSA) held its Biennium...
ECMHSP Website
- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
It Takes A Village – And Then Some!
Establishing Head Start services in a local community is one of the most challenging and fascinating journeys we take at ECMHSP. It...
ECMHSP Website
- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
Guest Post: Growing through the Policy Council
Jimina Villafuerte is the ECMHSP Policy Council Treasurer and a farmworker parent. This is her story. I am Jimina Villafuerte and I have...
ECMHSP Website
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
Farmworker Families and the H2A Dilemma
Today, National Public Radio (NPR) aired the investigative report, “Guest Workers, Legal Yet Not Quite Free, Pick Florida’s Oranges,” in...
ECMHSP Website
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
The Results are In! Announcing Our Blog Name
Last week, we sent out a poll to the ECMSHP community to help us choose a name for our ECMHSP Blog. With a majority of votes, we had a...
ECMHSP Website
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
New Year. New Beginnings. New Blog.
Dear Reader, 2016 promises to be a year of growth and innovation at East Coast Migrant Head Start Project! We started the year by...
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