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Causes: Education, Educational Services, Job Training
Mission: To help migrant and seasonal farmworkers attain economic stability. To develop and promote employment and educational opportunities for disadvantaged persons. To advocate for job training, promote rural economic development and combat the causes of rural poverty.
Programs: Employment, training and education: services include career assessment and planning, intensive case management and support, financial literacy activities, access to post-secondary classroom or on-the-job training, and job placement that leads to year-round, unsubsidized employment. Targeted populations served: 1) very low-income, seasonal and migrant farm and ranch workers; funding is provided through direct grants from the u. S. Department of labor, national farmworkers jobs program. 2) qualified, low-income rural individuals who are otherwise tanf eligible; funding is provided through the family economic security program funded through the temporary assistance for needy families (tanf) block grant by the u. S. Department of public health and human services.
youth education and support: migrant education projects serve migrant summer school students and qualifying year-round students in small, rural montana schools, ages 0 to 22. Services include identification and recruitment of eligible children, supplemental instructional services through direct instruction and tutoring and supplemental supportive services. Funding is passed through the montana migrant education program - office of public instruction, from the u. S. Department of education as authorized by no child left behind/esea title i, part c.