PROGRAMS AND SERVICES

The presence and availability of a chaplain on the farms provides the trust and security for individual men and women to share openly their struggles in their personal life. The chaplain is a mediator between the management and the worker and he helps improve communication and relationships between them.

A Farm Chaplain will:

Regularly have individual need assessments done to workers on his first visit to the farm. The purpose of this is to identify the main issues of concern and to help place the worker into a plan of action which may be one of these three levels:

• Translating for them or their managers, interceding with health issues, providing onsite ESL or Literacy classes, or to send them for classes and services.
  
• Helping them with legal matters, taking them for their consular matricula to diminish crime and to bring financial improvement, traffic court and DUI's, and visits to correctional facilities and hospitals.
  
• Other areas such as a family crisis, funerals, grief conseling, domestic violence,child abuse, substance abuse, and teen problems.

These are accomplished through visitation to hospitals or home visits to the sick and injured at the farm.

Responding to emergencies and being able to assess the situation with appropriate skills and to refer to the proper authorities for a quick and safe result.

Perform marriages, officiate at funerals and memorial services and to give invocations at various events.

Act as a liaison between farm workers, farm managers and related racing organizations and their assistance programs to help as needed.

Provide benevolence in times of critical need through clothing, food and health care items.

Connecting with farms and churches to have recreational facilities and activities, social events and special holiday celebrations.

Support Christian values of integrity, loyalty, honesty, honesty, helping others, trustworthiness and dependability and respect for property.