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. C. Increasing outreach worker training and awareness across core programs including the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program and the training on identification of UI eligibility issues
Current Narrative:
A common practice of the state is to share this type of information during state-led and local-led WIOA partners meeting. State Directors and local leaders from each core and required programs, present relevant and pertinent information to a system of workforce partners in a minimum of six training/partner meeting platforms.
Additionally, state merit staff members are very familiar with the WIOA Title I, Title III, and UI Programs, which is embedded into their regular job duties. However, as part of the outreach worker training, we have incorporated the core elements of partner programs, including the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program and UI eligibility. This training is addressed items such as eligibility, program services and benefits, resources for additional or more detailed information, application and contact information.