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- Pre-Season Orientation Conference: Early in the migrant season when the outreach workers for the various agencies are aboard, a general meeting of the major local migrant service providers is held to update and familiarize each other with such items as eligibility criteria, services, dates, locations and hours of offices, etc. Additionally, such a meeting allows newly hired staff to make contact with their counterparts in other agencies.
- Post-Season Conference: Shortly after the migrant season has ended, a meeting of the major local migrant service providers is held to analyze the season and identify problem areas and service gaps that could possibly be resolved before the next season. In many respects, this meeting sets the tempo and course of action of the council for the next year.
- Grower Meeting: Sometime between January and April, each council is encouraged to hold a special meeting specifically tailored at the interest of the growers that use migrant farmworkers. The program should include such issues as an update of agricultural labor laws, funding for the renovation and construction of migrant housing, immigration, management practices, etc. Councils are encouraged to cosponsor the meeting with local Cooperative Extension Service Programs and other grower organizations for maximum participation. One of the goals of the meeting is for agency representatives and growers to become better acquainted with each other.
- Farmworker Information Meeting: Sometime during the peak of the migrant season, each council is encouraged to hold at least one special meeting specifically tailored at the interest of farmworkers. Whenever possible, farmworkers should be consulted on their preference of agenda topics. However, at the very least, the program should include an update of agricultural labor laws as well as having present an authority on farmworker rights. Also, every effort should be made to have present enforcement representatives from such agencies as MI/US DOL Wage and Hour, MDA Farmlabor Housing Licensing Program, MDCH, MDLEG MIOSHA, MDHS, MMLAP, FLS, Telamon Corporation, etc.
- Resource Agency Directory: Compiled by the council members, this directory lists all of the migrant service providers in a specific geographical area, usually multi-county, and their respective programs, services staff and other pertinent information. Distributed among council members at the preseason meeting, it provides a handy reference guide as well as a useful tool for training new first-line summer staff.
- Agency Resource Guide: A simple one page, two-sided listing of the major migrant service providers and the services they offer - contact person, phone, address, etc., to be distributed freely and directly to migrants and seasonal farmworkers and family members. Multi copies should be passed out to each agency at the preseason meeting.
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