National migrant and seasonal head start association (NMSHSA) is committed to supporting thefarmworker community that provides an UN interrupted food supply for the american people, especially…

The National Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Association (NMSHSA) will receive $57,374,541 under a Block Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service. The funding supports the Pandemic Relief Activities: Farm and Food Worker Relief Grant Program (CFDA 10.181), which aims to assist food-related entities in responding to COVID-19, including protecting farm and food workers.

Through its existing network of 26 federally funded Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs operating 400 centers across 37 states, NMSHSA will distribute $600 payments to approximately 88,282 eligible farmworkers. NMSHSA expects to immediately reach the approximately 38,000 farmworker parents of children enrolled in Head Start programs. Additionally, through trusted community partnerships, NMSHSA anticipates assisting around 50,232 more farmworkers. NMSHSA and research partner NORC at the University of Chicago will implement a customized data system to securely collect eligibility information, verify beneficiaries, reduce duplicate payments, and distribute payment cards to approved recipients. The funding will support this effort from October 2022 through October 2024.

National migrant and seasonal head start association (NMSHSA) is committed to supporting thefarmworker community that provides an UN interrupted food supply for the american people, especially thosenegatively impacted by covid 19. As a membership organization, NMSHSA will provide food and farm work relief(FFWR) payments of 600 to 88,282 eligible farmworkers across 37 states by working with our existing nationalnetwork of 26 federally funded migrant and seasonal head start (MSHS) programs, operating 400 early educationcenters, and their community partners. Our extensive network of MSHS programs gives US extraordinary reach tohelp farmworkers but also extraordinary responsibility to ensure that government funds are distributed equitably. Toensure this, NMSHSA has partnered with NORC at the university of chicago (NORC), a leading national researchorganization with deep expertise in developing and implementing highly secure data systems that meet the federalgovernment S stringent privacyand data security requirements.NMSHSA will be able to reach immediately approximately 38,000 farmworker beneficiaries who are parentsof children enrolled in MSHS programs across the country. As trusted, integral organizations within theircommunities, MSHS programs will also reach an estimated 50,232 additional farmworkers not currently served bymshs programs. The NMSHSA team has developed a process for distributing FFWR payments that minimizes burden onprospective farmworker beneficiaries and effectively mitigates financial risk and fraud. Our process will operatethrough a customized data system that facilitates the secure electronic collection of eligibility information, verificationof prospective beneficiaries, reduction of duplicate payments, and distribution of 600 payment cards.