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 an assessment of need. An assessment need describes the unique needs of farmworkers in the area based on past and projected agricultural and farmworker activity in the State. Such needs may include but are not limited to: employment, training, and housing.
- 4. Outreach Activities
The 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:
- 4. 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 an assessment of need. An assessment need describes the unique needs of farmworkers in the area based on past and projected agricultural and farmworker activity in the State. Such needs may include but are not limited to: employment, training, and housing.
e. 4. 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:
The state will utilize the continuous trainings and seminars offered by the National Monitor Advocate and the Regional Monitor Advocate to enhance the train-the-trainer services that is offered to the statewide employment service workers including outreach staff. The plan is to ensure that that all staff understand the necessity for providing all customers, including the MSFWs with the full array of quality services. In order to comply with this requirement employment service workers, outreach workers and management staff shall view the Migrant Seasonal Farm Worker services as a continuation of services of that must be provided such as job referrals, training, education, supportive services, labor market information, complaint services and unemployment insurance. In the train-the-trainer format the local office manager shall be responsible for training local office staff. West Virginia’s continuous education/training plan for train-the-trainer was completed and new series of Migrant Seasonal Farm Worker training has been initiated.
Plan Goal: To provide continuous education and training related services for Migrant Seasonal Farm Workers.
Objective: Increase the awareness, capacity and skills of workers serving this special population.