Migrant & Seasonal Farm Workers (MSFW)
The Migrant & Seasonal Farmworker (MSFW) program provides services for migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents. Career Services and Training grant recipients help farmworkers and their dependents acquire necessary skills to either stabilize or advance in their agricultural jobs or obtain employment in new industries. The Tennessee MSFW program assists migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their employers by offering services aimed at improving living and working conditions.
Examples of Farmwork include: cultivating the soil, or in connection with raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity, including the raising, shearing, feeding, caring for, training, and management of livestock, bees, poultry, and fur-bearing animals and wildlife; and any practices (including any forestry or lumbering operations) performed by a farmer or on a farm.
Program Services
Employment Assistance
- Job search assistance and placement
- Job development
- Registration assistance
- Testing and training opportunities through different partner programs. This also includes collaboration with Tennessee Opportunity Programs, Inc. (TOPS).
Support Services
- Counseling
- Referrals to supportive services and other organizations that serve MSFWs
Rights and Advocacy
- Farmworker rights and labor laws information
- Complaint resolution
Eligibility
Seasonal Farm Worker
- Employed, or was employed in the past 12 months, in farmwork of a seasonal or other temporary nature.
- Not required to be absent overnight from their permanent residence.
Migrant Farm Worker
- A seasonal farmworker who traveled to perform farmwork and was unable to return to their permanent residence within the same day.
For More Information
Visit your local American Job Center and speak with a career specialist.
You can also visit the Virtual American Job Center to get more information.