What’s NEW

• State Recruiter Training – The training will be held in Dodge City at the Learning Center on May 16th and May 17th, 2012.  Lunch will be served on May 17th.  Please contact Jonita Brack  (or jonitabrack@yahoo.com) by April 26th, should you plan to attend.  Here is the agenda for the 2-day training with key discussion points.
  
  
• Greetings MEP Families!  We have already received a lot of applications for Year 2 of our CAMP grant.  We are funded to serve 40 students.   If you know of students who will be starting college at one of our four partner colleges next fall, please encourage them to get their applications to us as soon as possible.  We have a priority deadline for Year 2 of May 1, 2012.  The four colleges are Fort Scott Community College, Fort Scott, Kansas, Seward County Community College, Liberal, Kansas, Oklahoma Panhandle State University, Goodwell, Oklahoma, and University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton, Arkansas.  Please contact Lynne Wheeler  if you have any questions.
  • CAMP Application 2012
    
    
• Kansas OSY Advocacy Project
  Based out of the Northwest ID&R Service Center, this new OSY Advocacy Program will:
  a) provide OSY migrant youth support services required by the unique demands of their migrant lifestyle
  b) collaborate with supporting agencies to provide essential services
  c) blend local and statewide perspectives into a substantial and resourceful system of OSY migrant support, and
  d) provide year-round recruitment of OSY in the State. 
  The new proposal will fulfill State and federal regulations while ensuring all qualifying OSY migrant youth are not only provided needed services but also identified and recruited.

• The June 2012 Harvest of Hope Leadership Academy is now accepting student applications for admission.   8th through 11th grade students for the year 2011-2012, who are now currently Migrant or Continuation of Service are eligible to apply.  Click here to download and print the current application, brochures, and presentation slides.  Questions?  Please contact Alejandra Hernandez-Castro or by phone at 1-877-860-8180.
  
  
• Agricultural Newsletter – This newsletter has been created to inform MEP Staff across the country of trends, current research and agricultural news that can potentially effect where migrants come and go to work.  This can affect all eligible migrant students ages 3 – 21, including out-of-school youth.  It is important to utilize this information in order to track in a proactive manner where OSY may be moving and working.
  • April Agricultural Newsletter
    
    
• FREE LUNCHES FOR MIGRANT CHILDREN!  This is a reminder to ALL Migrant Directors & Data Clerks that migrant children are “categorically eligible” to receive free school meals once the district Migrant Education Program provides documentation of migrant children to the School Nutrition Program.  Click here for a detailed memo from the State Department.
  

• Educating Low German Speaking Mexican Mennonite Students in Kansas
  Please click here for a brief history.
  
  
• Migrant Identification and Recruitment now has its own website! 
  You can either click on the ID&R tab to the left or go directly to www.ks-idr.org. 
  Please contact Paige Inman should you have trouble locating anything.            
  

• ALL MEP STAFF! Please click the link below for more information regarding the New Statewide Recruitment Plan effective July 2010.
  • Reorganizational Plan for Kansas Statewide Identification & Recruitment

• ATTENTION! - The Kansas Migrant Education Program has created the
  Website Submit Form for those of you who wish to submit any announcements, forms, etc. This form is listed under the Resources for MEP Staff page.