Located in:
- Program-Specific Requirements for Wagner-Peyser Program (Employment Services)
All Program-Specific Requirements provided for the WIOA core programs in this section must be addressed for either a Unified or Combined State Plan.
- e. Agricultural Outreach Plan (aop). Each State Agency Must Develop an Aop Every Four Years as Part of the Unified or Combined State Plan Required Under Sections 102 or 103 of WIOA. the Aop Must Include--
- 2. Outreach ActivitiesThe local offices outreach activities must be designed to meet the needs of MSFWs in the State and to locate and contact MSFWs who are not being reached through normal intake activities. Describe the State agency's proposed strategies for:
- 2. Outreach Activities
- e. Agricultural Outreach Plan (aop). Each State Agency Must Develop an Aop Every Four Years as Part of the Unified or Combined State Plan Required Under Sections 102 or 103 of WIOA. the Aop Must Include--
e. 2. D. Providing State Merit Staff Outreach Workers Professional Development Activities to Ensure They Are Able to Provide High Quality Services to Both Jobseekers and Employers.
Current Narrative:
To ensure that outreach staff and Board staff receive technical assistance and professional development in order to improve services to MSFWs, training and technical assistance is provided to include:
- MSFW equity performance indicators—proper identification and coding of MSFW customers;
- setting up local benchmark or baseline targets for Equity Indicators and Minimum Service Levels performance measures;
- strategies in strengthening collaboration with Texas Workforce Solutions partners and other organizations serving MSFWs in the area;
- basic summary of farmworker rights;
- Workforce Solutions Office coordination and intake procedures;
- MSFW carry-over applicants (active file in WorkInTexas.com) and the impact on Equity performance measures;
- MSFW Program: service delivery, outreach, and reporting;
- WD Letter 41-10, National Electronic Job Registry for H-2A Temporary Agricultural Job Posting;
- complaint procedures related to MSFWs to include informal resolution;
- program integration strategies for MSFWs;
- Agricultural Recruitment System (ARS) procedures and consequences;
- establishing local community partnerships (e.g., bringing community groups together formalizing the traditional migrant subcommittee groups and coalition meeting groups);
- identifying opportunities to coenroll/integrate program design with Motivation Education and Training, Inc. (MET), Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) §167, NFJP grantee with other Workforce Solutions Office services;
- efforts to develop local, regional, and state planning strategies for workers in the agricultural industry, with emphasis on supply and demand areas of the state;
- coordinate agricultural business forums. The intended focus of these forums would be relative to pertinent issues that affect both agricultural employers and workers to include laws that affect the agricultural industry sector;
- coordinate a pre-harvest forum for MSFWs through the migrant education, workforce, community, and farmworker organizations;
- facilitate and coordinate the engagement of the agricultural industry into the workforce investment system, assist in the creation of jobs within the agricultural industry (permanent/year-round), and determine the viable need for a skilled workforce in an effort to increase wage gain earners; and
- develop strategies to increase opportunities for the MSFW summer youth program to implement goals and objectives that include a tracking system, coenrollment, and coordination with MET’s youth program.