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Description

Employment preparation and career training program that provides experience or vocational education for the work associated with a certain type of job

Additional Information

Provides academic and vocational training to migrant and seasonal farm workers help participants become economically self-sufficient.

The National Farmworker Jobs Program includes:

• Emergency supportive services (nutritional, transportation, housing, utilities)
• Vocational skills training
• Customized training
• Job readiness skills
• Work experience
• On-the-job training
• Computer literacy
• English as a Second Language
• Agricultural upgrade training
• Pesticide safety training

MET also serves low-income and disadvantaged populations throughout the agency's service area.

Features

• Area Served by County
  • Waseca County

Eligibility

Eligible participants are:

• Seasonal farmworkers primarily employed in agricultural labor with long periods of unemployment or underemployment
• Disadvantaged
• Citizens, permanent residents, refugees, asylees, parolee and other authorized immigrants

Contact the office near you for eligibility verification.