Welcome To North Carolina
North Carolina is the home of our corporate headquarters and original programs for migrant farmworkers in 1965. Services for migrant and seasonal farmworkers continue to be the mainstay of offices and early childhood centers throughout the state today. For more information about our locations or details of the programs briefly described below, contact our offices.
National Farmworker Jobs Program
Our employment and training program serves nearly 2,000 farmworkers each year. Through federal grant resources, we are able to provide both short and long-term services to those who qualify. (see Eligibility Criteria) For example, we can assist farmworkers who experience emergencies while traveling and working in the state; and if they decide to upgrade their job skills and seek more stable employment, we provide a wide range of related services. Counseling, educational support and occupational training are but a few. Over the years, North Carolina has become an attractive place to settle, and our collaboration with educational institutions and skill training entities have played important roles in this process. Our role as a partner in the state's Workforce Investment service delivery system connects us with JobLink Career Centers and the resources available there. As a partner in this statewide system we are able to help not only farmworkers, but other customers as well.
Head Start
Early childhood services have been a mainstay at Telamon for more than three decades. Today, we operate Head Start programs for children of migrant farmworker families in three locations. Strong parental involvement, health and nutritional education, and a solid academic curriculum are priorities in this effort. They combine to facilitate a safe and learning-conducive environment. Supplementing the promotion of childcare education is a literacy program designed for parents who can benefit from this offering. Individualized services are provided to children with disabilities as when needed. A recent addition to our early childhood efforts is our Early Head Start program, which provides a full range of services to low-income expectant mothers, and children, ages 0 to 5, in Caswell County. See Eligibility Criteria for details.
English as a Second Language (ESL)
For more than 15 years, we have offered ESL instruction to non English-speaking migrant farmworkers. The classes are individually paced and provided after normal working hours in migrant labor camps. The curriculum, which promotes survival language skills and citizenship awareness was developed by our staff and recognized for its innovation. Support for this project comes from the State office of Economic Opportunity under the Community Services Block Grant program.
Reading Is Fundamental (RIF)
This beginning this project, we have provided thousands of books to the children of families we serve. The RIF program attempts to motivate America's children to read often and well by involving them in reading activities as early as possible. Our offices normally sponsor events that involve children making the selection of their individual books as an activity. Since many of our customers are Hispanic, the book selection committees at each of the Head Start centers identify books of various titles for each respective age group in both the English and Spanish languages.
Young members of eligible farmworker families (see Eligibility Criteria) can benefit from either of two projects operated in North Carolina. The migrant and seasonal farmworker Youth program provides support and assistance to those who are at risk of dropping out of school through counseling, tutorial help, guidance from adult mentors and work experience. Those who may have already left school are encouraged to return or work toward a high school equivalency diploma. The main priority is education and the main goal is a higher level of employment that is only secured through education. Another project, Seeing Alternative and Valuing Education, is targeted to children of migrant farmworker families who come to North Carolina annually from Florida. Our emphasis on education offers these youth financial support that would otherwise be earned in the fields of agriculture, in exchange for learning activities. Then, they are referred to project partners in Florida who work with them toward completion of high school.
Programas de Vivienda
Telamon administra dos (2) programas de vivienda de varios estados diseñados para mejorar las condiciones de vivienda para los trabajadores migratorios y temporeros. El USDA, USDA/RD y el DOL financian estos programas de vivienda.
En Carolina del Norte, el programa de desarrollo rural proporciona el entrenamiento y la asistencia técnica a las organizaciones locales para desarrollar e implementar las comunidades de apartamentos para familias de trabajadores migratorios y temporeros que trabajan en la industria agrícola.
El propósito y el enfoque de este programa es asistir a las agencias públicas y las organizaciones sin fines de lucro que son los patrocinadores del programa para que desarrollen el conocimiento suficiente y específico del programa de Sección 514/516 del USDA y su división enfocada al desarrollo rural. Este conocimiento y maestría les permitirán solicitar fondos para construir la vivienda de alquiler del trabajo agrícola y desarrollar la capacidad de manejar tal proyecto, incluyendo los conocimientos de administración financiera necesaria y habilidades presupuestarias. Además de Carolina del Norte, este programa funciona en los estados de Alabama, Georgia, Carolina del Sur, Virginia, Virginia Occidental y Tennessee.
Con el financiamiento proporcionado por la ley federal de Inversión en la Fuerza Laboral (WIA),
Telamon opera un programa de desarrollo de viviendas en las granjas de Carolina del Norte. Este programa proporciona asistencia a los granjeros y agricultores que deseen mejorar las actuales viviendas de sus trabajadores. A través de un acuerdo que provee una porción igual de financiamiento, Telamon proporcionará una concesión máxima de hasta $5,000 a los granjeros y agricultores que califiquen para las reparaciones realizadas en estas viviendas.
Otra función del programa del Departamento del Trabajo (DOL) es proporcionar asistencia de emergencia de vivienda a los trabajadores migratorios y temporeros que califiquen. Se proporciona asistencia para la prevención del desalojo, pagos de cuentas atrasadas de servicios como gas, electricidad y agua, depósitos de alquiler y depósitos para servicios como gas, electricidad y agua. Además, este programa proporciona servicios de consultoría en asesoramiento de vivienda a trabajadores agrícolas migratorios y temporeros que califiquen.
Las sesiones de asesoramiento proporcionadas consisten en los siguientes talleres:
Entienda su Crédito, Administración del Dinero, Principios Básicos de la Banca y Derechos del Arrendatario.
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