Introduction to Data Analysis Handbook - AED Center for Early Care ...

Family Strengths and Needs
Process Components Content Information
Purpose To identify strengths and needs of migrant farmworker
families as they move from one geographical area to another.
Questions • What needs do families have as they enter the program?
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What is the impact on individuals and family systems?
Data Collection Sample Qualitative Data – Partial Transcript from a 2002
Parent interview Conducted in a Migrant and Seasonal Head
Start Program
(Family one – husband)
OK, well, me first, before anything, I came here because
of the poverty, do you understand me? And for a good
quality of life, in my country not so much thinking about
myself but about my smaller sisters so that they can have
a better education considering that I did not have any,
and another reason was in my country there are no good
jobs, and very little work. They pay you very little and
you never leave the poverty and another reason is that my
father and I had two brothers that were already here and
I thought that the more of us that are here the better that
everybody could help each other out and it would be easier
to get ahead with our younger sisters.
(Family one – wife)
The same to help my parents I came and I would send
money and then my brother came and then the same
(interrupted by the husband)