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RCMA opens new child-care center in Dover in east Hillsborough County

Imelda Dutton | Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Redlands Christian Migrant Association (RCMA) opened the doors to a new child-care center for the children of migrant farmworkers in Dover on Monday, Oct 31st.

The $3.6 million, 15,000-square-foot center triples the capacity of children served from 88, at the current center, to 264.

RCMA expects to start caring for 70 children who had been on a waiting list. That number is expected to increase to 172 by the peak of the strawberry season in Dover this February.

Children cared for at the current center will also be moved to the new center. RCMA is Florida’s largest nonprofit child-care provider with 68 centers across Florida. Its Dover operations are funded by the federal Migrant & Seasonal Head Start program, which focuses on serving migrant families.

For more information contact Elda Cruz, RCMA Center Coordinator, at 813.707.7002 or via e-mail her by following this link.

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Imelda Dutton, a native of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, is a bilingual journalist with extensive expertise in Spanish communications. For more than two decades, she reported on Latin American issues for Mexican and American media, including El Universal de Mexico. She has also written for and edited Spanish and English publications, including Visión Latina, formerly a weekly publication of The Ledger and The New York Times, and Ágora, a bilingual quarterly military magazine published by U.S. Northern Command. For the past decade she has been a strategic communications consultant for international companies, such as Booz Allen Hamilton and Jacobs Technology; and in 2014, she founded CrossoverComm Inc., her own content development and communications agency. Dutton is currently the Tampa Bay area correspondent for El Sentinel newspaper and enjoys looking for ways to promote diversity and cultural awareness among Americans.