The farm and food workers emergency relief project will provide financial support to frontline farmand food workers (including those working in the fields, with livestock, and in meatpacking) who…

The Training Occupational Development Educating Communities (TODEC) Legal Center will use a $4.5 million block grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service under the Pandemic Relief Activities: Farm and Food Worker Relief Grant Program (CFDA 10.181) to provide financial relief to frontline farm and food workers in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, California. Specifically, TODEC will distribute one-time $600 payments to an estimated 6,667 eligible farm and food workers who lived or worked in the counties during the COVID-19 pandemic and incurred related expenses from May 3, 2022 to May 3, 2024. TODEC will conduct multilingual outreach through an extensive network of public and nonprofit partners using various media to ensure impacted workers receive information about the relief payments.

The farm and food workers emergency relief project will provide financial support to frontline farmand food workers (including those working in the fields, with livestock, and in meatpacking) who weredeemed essential workers during the covid 19 pandemic. With funds from the farm and foodworkers relief grant program, training occupational development educating communities(todec) legal center, based in perris, CA (riverside county), will manage the outreach anddistribution of a single 600 payment to 6,667 farm and food workers who lived or worked in riversidecounty or SAN bernardino county during, and incurred expenses related to, the covid 19 pandemic.from may 3, 2022 to may 3, 2024, todec will work with its extensive network of public and nonprofitpartners to reach eligible frontline farm and food workers using effective, linguistically and culturallyappropriate outreach. Todec s partners for this project include growing coachella valley, united foodand commercial workers union, desert healthcare district and foundation, riverside universityhealth system, riverside county farm bureau, riverside county agricultural commissioner s office, molina healthcare, california catholic diocese of SAN bernardino, SAN bernardino public healthdepartment, the consulate of mexico, and collective agency consulting firm. Todec will provideoutreach through the combined influence of our committed membership, volunteers, and extensivenetwork of project partners, via text and phone banks, as well as through door to door canvassing infarm worker communities and worksites, and with comprehensive local radio, television, and socialmedia campaigns.