COFFO's Director Report
The Coalition of Florida Farmworker Organizations has been contracting with the Department of Community Affairs on a project that will assist Community Action Agencies with high farmworker concentrations outreach farmworkers.
The contract requires that COFFO establish a CSBG Farmworker Advisory Council and select eight Community Action Agencies for participation and develop six newsletters.
The purpose of the Advisory Council is to advise COFFO in identifying technical assistance needs and the developing of training activities. It will consist of no more than 15 members and one-third will be representatives of the CAAs receiving technical assistance, one-third representative of government agencies familiar with farmworker services and familiarity with
farm labor issues and one-third members at large that serve and/or have and interest in farmworker issues. The Advisory Council will meet twice during the term of the contract. The selection of the eight CAAs is based on the high concentration of farmworkers in the counties they serve, based
on the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Enumeration Profiles Study. Selection of the CAAs is approved the Department
of Community Affairs and participation is voluntarily. The newsletters will be produced electronically and disseminated to the Florida CAAs and posted on COFFO’s website, www.coffo.org.
This issue is dedicated to introducing the members of the Advisory Council, the CAAs selected and information relative
to the program. Future newsletters will contain articles received from the Advisory Council members and issues relative to farmworkers and agriculture.
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CAAs
Manatee Community Action Agency – Barbara Patten
(941)827-2887 bpatten@manateecaa.org
Northeast Florida Community Action Agency – Henry Wilkins
386-385-3954 x 12 hwilkins@nfcaa.org
St. Lucie Board of County Commissioners
772-462-1777 myerss@stlucie.gov
813-657-7647 x 222 Fidellad@HillsboroughCounty.org
Agricultural Labor Program Inc. – Deloris Johnson
DJOHNSON@alpi.org
Economic Opportunity Council of Indian River County
maybel.escobar@eocofirc.net
FARMWORKER AGENCIES
Florida Legal Service,
Migrant Farmworker Justice Program—Greg Schell
800-277-7447 greg@floridalegal.org
Everglades Community Association—Steve Kirk
305-242-2142 kirknet@yahoo.com
Migrant Housing Licensing -Sharon Saulter
850-245-4250 sharon_saulter@doh.state.fl.us
RCMA -Lourdes Villareal –
(813)376-8667 lourdes@rcma.org
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS
167 National Farmworker Jobs Program -Linda Grisham -
813-744-6303
AWI, Florida Monitor Avócate - Pedro Narezo
850-921-3207 pedro.narezo@awi.state.fl.us
Florida Association of Community Health Centers
850-942-1822 ext. 208 Erin Sologaistoa, erin@fachc.org
Title I Migrant Education -Alice Matthews
863)242-2224 fmip@earthlink.net
Florida Fruits and Vegetables—Walter Kates
321-214-5200 walter.kates@ffva.com
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Capital Area Community Action Agency
309 Office Plaza Drive
Tallahassee, Florida 30301
Dorothy Inman-Johnson, Executive Director
Contact Person: Cynthia Valencia,
e-mail: Cynthia.valencia@cacaainc.org
Economic Opportunity Council of Indian River County
1456 Old Dixie Highway, Building B
Vero Beach, Florida 32960
(772) 562-4177
Contact Person: Mabel Escobar e-mail Mabel.escobar@eocofirc.net
Hendry County Board of County Commissioners
165 South Lee Street
La Belle , Florida 33935
863-675-5356
Contact Person: James Coddington
e-mail: jcoddington@hendryfla.net
Hillsborough County
9270 Bay Plaza Blvd, Suite 609
Tampa, Florida 33619
(813) 671-7647 ext. 222
Contact Person: Dee Fridella,
e-mail fridellad@HillsboroughCounty.org
Manatee Community Action Agency
302 Manatee Avenue East , Suite 150
Bradenton, Florida 34208
941-827-2887 Barbara Patten, Executive Director,
e-mail bpatten@manateecaa.org
Northeast Florida Community Action Agency
P.O. Box 1489
Bunnell, Florida 23110
(386) 385-3954 ext. 12
Contact Person: Henry Wilkins,
e-mail hwilkins@nfcaa.org
Palm Beach BBC
625 Martin Luther King Drive
South Bay, Florida 33493
(591) 996-0661
Contact Person: Mary Allen, e-mail mallen@pbcgov.com
St. Lucie Board of County Commissioners
437 North 7th Street
Fort Pierce, Florida ,34950
Contact Person : Stefani Myers,
e-mail: myerss@stlucie.gov
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| FACA 29TH Annual Training Conference
MAY 12 – 15, 2009
PGA NATIONAL RESORT & SPA
400 Avenue of the Champions
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
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| 2009 Governor’s Hurricane Conference
May 10-15,2009
Theme Preparing Rural and Immigrant Communities for Hurricanes & Tropical Stormshttp://www.flghc.org/program.html
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| 2009 ANNUAL CONFERNCE
July 25-28
McCormick Place West Chicago, Illinois
http://www.nclr.org/section/events/conference/
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| Migrant Service Providers Meeting
Meetings are held at the COFFO conference room
778 West Palm Drive Florida City , 33034
Every third Wednesday of the month at 2P.M.
http://coffo.org
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| Full Committee Meeting
2010 Census Statewide Complete Count Committee
Thursday, May 14th,2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Valencia Community College’s Criminal Justice Institute
8600 Valencia College Lane
http://2010.census.gov/2010census/
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Congratulations to Mrs. Linda J. Grisham
on her new position as Director of Adult Migrant Program and Services Section at the State Office.
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