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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Nunez

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/7/06

HB HJM 62

SHORT TITLE NMSU Cooperative Extension Service & Enlace

SB

ANALYST Earp

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY06

FY07

NFI

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Duplicates SJM 33

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Higher Education Department (HED)

Public Education Department (PED)

New Mexico State University (NMSU)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Joint Memorial 62 directs the NMSU Cooperative Extension Service (CES) and Southern

New Mexico ENLACE to explore ways to integrate the ENLACE parent university workshops

into their scope of work to assist Hispanic parents to become “coaches” and “advocates” for their

children’s success and excellence.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

No fiscal impact is apparent.

CONFLICT, DUPLICATION, COMPANIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP

SJM 33 and HJM 62 are duplicate measures.

House Joint Memorial 62 – Page

2

OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES

The Southern New Mexico ENLACE program currently has curriculum that teaches Hispanic

parents to be coaches and advocates for their children. The curriculum provides guidance to par-

ents about how they can create an educational environment for their children at home. ENLACE

would like to explore creative ways of reaching parents by partnering with CES because their

presence throughout the state will support the outreach effort. The collaboration would consist of

training and supporting CES agents to teach the ENLACE parent curriculum.

NMSU CES states that the Southern New Mexico ENLACE program and CES will work to inte-

grate many of the best practices identified in the literature to enhance the programs offered to

Hispanic families and youth. For example, 4-H youth development is an organization offering

programming which provides the type of positive development framework for youth which is

best suited to providing positive personal and social assets. 4-H is the largest youth development

organization in the nation, with more than 5 million member ages 5-19 and 600,000 leaders.

NMSU Cooperative Extension 4-H program currently reaches 80,000 youth ages 5-19 and 6,000

volunteer leaders.

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