National Farmworker Training Program

AFOP is the proud sponsor of the National Farmworker Training Program (NFTP), which provides multiple occupational health safety training topics to the farmworker community. This is possible thanks to the support and funding of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

NFTP is a ten-month program that operates from January – October. This program is implemented through our member organizations in multiple states. Each year the number of states and the number of trainers varies based on our member’s capacity to have a staff provide the trainings.

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Training Topics

Our farmworker Health & Safety Training Program provide multiple training topics to the farmworker community, such as:

Training Techniques

AFOP Health & Safety Programs is known for quality, culturally appropriate training and curricula, that use innovative, low-literacy training techniques to communicate vital health information to farmworkers. Our programs focus on using adequate multilingual interactive training techniques to increase farmworkers engagement to the topic in order to ensure knowledge transfer, as well as, behavior change.

The majority of farmworkers in the U.S. speak Spanish as their primary language. To complement trainings, bilingual English-Spanish materials are made available for farmworkers and the community-based organizations that serve them. In the past years we have been able to translate our training materials into Haitian-Creole, Mixteco and Burmese.

Special Events

AFOP Health & Safety annually coordinates the following three awareness events/activities for migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their employers.

These events are the following:

National Long-Sleeve Shirt Drive – held during the National Farmworker Awareness Week in March. With this event with hope to create awareness of the serious health effects of pesticide exposure while providing pesticide safety trainings and handing out long sleeve shirts to the farmworker community.
Healthy Pregnancy and Child Protection Month – during the month of May we coordinate an awareness campaign to draw attention to the dangers of pesticide exposure to pregnant women and their unborn child The campaign includes a training marathon of PEP trainings and month-long social media blitz.
Heat Stress Prevention Training Marathon – held annually in July. With this event we hope to spread awareness about the serious effects of heat exposure mixed with pesticide exposure.

Participating Organizations

Participating Organizations

As of 2019, NFTP is currently implemented in 28 states with a total of 220 trainers. Here are the participating organizations:

STATE	ORGANIZATION	# of Trainers
AL	Telamon Corp	4
CA	Proteus, Inc.	1
DE	Telamon Corp.	4
GA	Telamon Corp.	4
IA	Proteus, Inc.	9
IL	Illinois Migrant Council	6
IN	Proteus, Inc.	5
LA	MET, Inc.	4
MD	Telamon Corp.	4
ME	Eastern Maine Development Corp.	2
MN	MET, Inc.	7
MT	Rural Employment Opportunities	4
NC	Telamon Corp.	9
ND	MET, Inc.	7
NE	Proteus, Inc.	5
NJ	PathStone Corp.	5
NM	Help NM, Inc.	12
NY	PathStone Corp.	17
OH	PathStone Corp.	12
OK	ORO Development Corp.	2
PA	PathStone Corp.	8
PR	PathStone Corp.	30
TX	MET, Inc.	30
VA	Telamon Corp.	3
VT	PathStone Corp.	2
WA	Opportunities Industrialization Ctr.	24
WV	Telamon Corp.	1
WY	MET, Inc.	3