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:
Missouri Job Center state staff are trained via webinars and in-person to offer the MSFWs equal access to a full range of employment services, and in providing these services, how to be sensitive to preferences, skills, and availability of agricultural job opportunities. In order to accomplish this, job center state staff must identify and serve farmworkers in an equitable manner. These interactive training webinars empower each job center to accomplish compliance in meeting regulations. Participants learn how to identify, conduct intake and serve the MSFWs. Additionally, they are provided demographic and agricultural information for each local area. Trainings are completed on outreach throughout the state that require at least one local staff person to attend. This strategy increases local program knowledge and increases MSFW registrations for Missouri. It also provides information regarding a wide range of services to the farmworkers and agricultural employers. In addition, MSFW Outreach Workers staff may attend national training as available to learn best practices from other states and partners.