AC381402260A6

Award Purpose:
The purpose of this award is to strengthen the ability of eligible migrant and seasonal farmworkers (MSFWs) and their dependents to obtain or retain unsubsidized employment, stabilize their employment, and achieve economic self-sufficiency. This includes upgrading their employment in agriculture. Additionally, housing grant recipients work to meet the critical need for safe and sanitary permanent and temporary housing. Grantees can be any entity familiar with the workforce challenges of migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Separate funding is provided by Congress for NFJP employment and training grants and NFJP housing grants. Grants run on a program year from July 1st to June 30th, and a grant competition is held every four years for state service areas.

Activities Performed:
To ensure that all services are focused on the customer's needs, services are provided through a case management approach emphasizing customer choice. These services include basic and individualized career services, training services (eligible MSFWs are not required to receive career services prior to receiving training services), youth services as available in the WIOA Youth Program, related assistance services (including allowance payments that help farmworkers and their family members retain their agricultural employment or participate in career or training services), and supportive services. NFJP housing grantees provide farmworkers with housing assistance, including direct payments for emergency and temporary housing. Other indirect assistance includes leveraging services to increase or maintain housing stock available to farmworkers and housing development designed to improve living conditions for underserved farmworker communities.

Deliverables:
All WIOA Adult funded programs require states to collect and report data to the Department of Labor (DOL) on performance measures. The targets for the states are negotiated between DOL and the states. WIOA programs have performance outcomes of employment rate second quarter after exit, employment rate fourth quarter after exit, median earnings second quarter after exit, measurable skill gains, credential attainment rate, and effectiveness in serving employers.

Intended Beneficiary:
The intended beneficiaries of this program are eligible migrant farmworkers whose agricultural labor requires travel to a job site, preventing them from returning to a permanent place of residence within the same day. It also includes low-income seasonal farmworkers who have been primarily employed in agricultural or fish farming industries characterized by chronic unemployment or underemployment for 12 consecutive months out of the 24 months prior to application for the program. Eligible MSFW youth are aged 14-24 and can be individually eligible or dependents of eligible MSFWs.

Subrecipient Activities:
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17.264 - National Farmworker Jobs Program

Employment and Training Administration (ETA) [DOL]

Office of Workforce Investment [DOL - ETA]

California United States

State-Wide

National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Planning Guidance for Program Year 2022 (ETA-TEGL-10-21)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 3% from $4,421,543 to $4,569,576.