Farmworker Training and Education Program for Pesticide Safety

Isabel Gross
gross.isabel@epa.gov
202.566.1741

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is accepting applications for cooperative agreements that will help prevent pesticide illness by training and educating farmworkers on the Worker Protection Standard (WPS), agricultural pesticide safety, and related rights. They will also support the development of educational materials and outreach for farmworker communities.

Two types of funding are available:

• Type 1: Successful applicants will train farmworker communities nationally (across rural areas in many states and territories) focused on the required, EPA approved WPS trainings for workers and handlers.
• Type 2: This is a subaward program. Successful applicants will distribute funds to other organizations for education and outreach projects to farmworker communities. Projects will focus on topics in agricultural pesticide safety that supplement or reinforce the WPS requirements. They will be local and regional.

Eligible organizations are community-based farmworker nonprofit organizations with experience training or creating educational materials for farmworkers.

Type 1: Up to $2.5 million over 5 years

Type 2: Up to $3.8 million over 5 years (At least 60% of funding must go to local and regional projects.)

1 cooperative agreement per type is expected to be funded.

Links to the full announcement and online application process are available through grants.gov. The application instructions will be found on the related documents tab.