The New York State Spanish BETAC at Metro Center (NYSSBETAC) has been awarded a $10,000 fellowship grant to help support the volunteers working at selected centers of the New York State Adult Education and Immigrant Community Development Network of New York University's Metro Center, sometimes referred as the NYU Plazas Comunitarias Network Program. The Network reaches out to 26 community based organizations, schools and young adult centers in the New York City Metropolitan Area. The NYSSBETAC conducts monthly meetings dedicated to raise the professional competencies of the network's coordinators and teachers. The IME Fellowship Grant, financially managed by Metro Center, is a welcomed support to the centers with the most needs.

The Institute of Mexicans Abroad, abbreviated in Spanish as "IME", provides these competitive funds as an expression of their commitment to elevate the educational level of first generation Hispanics in the United States. The focus of support is in the schools, parent centers and non-profit organizations that offer programs for adult Hispanic immigrants (over 15 years of age) interested in continuing their education through basic literacy courses, distance education in Spanish, GED, and computer literacy classes.

In the summer of 2009, a report entitled Protection through Integration acknowledged and showcased NYU's Metro Center NYSBETAC work with parent centers and young adult learning centers and may be found in our website, page 26.