Aricely Vargas in playground slide at EPIC in Sunnyside, Washington. Tree fruit employers, both growers and packing house owners, have an untapped support program that could help them in their recruitment efforts. By coordinating with the nonprofit Enterprise for Progress in the Community, known as EPIC, which runs the federal Head Start early childhood education program for children of migrant and seasonal farmworkers, tree fruit employers could provide a service to the employees by referring employee children to Head Start programs, said Julie Toney, EPIC’s director of resources and communications. “That would help keep children out of the fields and […]