Program purpose awardto facilitate the delivery of housing solutions that are responsive to eligible migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents immediate and near-term needs (for example,…

Florida Non-Profit Housing, Inc. received a $1.32M Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration under the National Farmworker Jobs Program (CFDA 17.264), effective July 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. The award supports the delivery of comprehensive housing solutions and workforce development services to eligible migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents in Florida. Services include emergency and temporary housing assistance through direct payments, housing development initiatives designed to improve living conditions in underserved farmworker communities, and leveraging activities to increase or maintain housing stock availability.

In addition to housing services, the grant funds case management-based career and training services, including basic and individualized career services, occupational skills training, youth workforce development activities, and supportive services such as allowance payments and short-term direct assistance. These integrated services are designed to help farmworkers address immediate homelessness and housing safety concerns while enabling participation in employment and training activities that promote economic self-sufficiency and career advancement. Performance outcomes are tracked through standardized Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) metrics including employment rates and credential attainment.

Program purpose awardto facilitate the delivery of housing solutions that are responsive to eligible migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents immediate and near-term needs (for example, address homelessness, prevent homelessness, improve safety and sanitary standards of existing housing). Having access to safe and sanitary housing assists people in achieving their education and career goals, which can lead to improved economic mobility. Congress appropriates separate funding for nfjp employment and training grants and for nfjp housing grants. Grants run on a program year from july 1ST september 30TH and a grant competition is held every four years for state service areas.activities to be performedto ensure that all services are focused on the customers needs, services are provided through a case management approach emphasizing customer choice to include: basic and individualized career services training services - eligible msfws are not required to receive career services prior to receiving training services youth services, as available in the wioa youth program related assistance services which includes allowance payments which includes short-term direct assistance that helps farmworkers and their family members to retain their agricultural employment or to participate in career or training services and supportive services. Nfjp housing grantees provide farmworkers with housing assistance, including direct payments for emergency and temporary housing. Other indirect assistance includes leveraging services to increase or maintain housing stock available to farmworkers and housing development designed to improve living conditions for underserved farmworker communitiesdeliverables expected outcome all wioa adult funded programs require states to collect and report data to DOL on performance measures. The targets for the states are negotiated between DOL and the states. Wioa programs have performance outcomes of employment rate second quarter after exit, employment rate fourth quarter after exit, median earnings second quarter after exit, measurable skill gains, credential attainment rate, and effectiveness in serving employers.intended beneficiary(IES)eligible migrant farmworker whose agricultural labor requires travel to a job site such that the farmworker is unable to return to a permanent place of residence within the same day and a low income seasonal farmworker who for 12 consecutive months out of the 24 months prior to application for the program who has been primarily employed in agricultural or fish farming industries thats characterized by chronic unemployment or underemployment. Eligible msfw youth is aged 1424 who is individually eligible or is a dependent of an eligible msfw.subrecipient activitiesyes, grant recipients can sub to other local agencies and non-profit organizations.