WSIN25-20 — Farmworkers Advancement Program — PY 25-26
The PY 25-26 competition produced five $1 million awards focused on farmworker skill building, job quality, and wraparound support. A new PY 26-27 round has now opened with up to $10 million, so the 2025-26 portfolio is immediately useful as a readiness scan.
Feb. 3, 2026
May 15, 2026
5 × $1 million
PY 26-27 round · up to $10M
Source + trust record
Source checked as of September 18, 2026. Primary authority: EDD WSIN25-20, EDD WSIN25-31, and EDD WSIN26-12.
Check result: The PY 2025-26 FAP competition produced five $1 million awards. A new PY 2026-27 round is open with up to $10 million available and proposals due October 12, 2026. The older brief is therefore useful as an implementation portfolio and readiness reference, while WSIN26-12 and the current SFP control new applications. This AI-assisted brief does not receive human legal or compliance review. Official sources control.
The bottom line
The old solicitation is now a live implementation reference for the next competition.
FAP funds regional strategies that help farmworkers build skills to advance within agriculture or move into other sectors, while emphasizing family-sustaining wages, benefits, predictable hours, advancement, worker voice, and wraparound support.
EDD issued the PY 26-27 FAP solicitation on September 3, 2026, with up to $10 million available. Current applicants can learn from the five projects already funded under PY 25-26.
PY 25-26 award portfolio
Five projects, each funded at $1 million.
| Awardee | Counties | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Kern/Inyo/Mono Consortium WDA — Kern County Employers’ Training Resource | Kern | $1,000,000 |
| Workforce Development Board of Ventura County | Ventura | $1,000,000 |
| Binational of Central California | Fresno, Madera, Merced | $1,000,000 |
| Central Valley Opportunity Center, Inc. | Madera, Merced, Stanislaus | $1,000,000 |
| West Hills Community College District | Fresno, Kings | $1,000,000 |
What the program is buying
Skills + job quality + wraparound support.
English, math, digital literacy, and other foundational skills that support advancement.
Training for advancement inside agriculture or transition to other sectors.
Family-sustaining wages, benefits, predictable hours, advancement, and worker voice.
Wraparound resources that reduce barriers and improve persistence.
The next round
PY 26-27 raises the available funding to up to $10 million.
Operational considerations for WDBs
If you are considering the next round, start with evidence and partnerships.
Include workforce, education, trusted community organizations, legal/benefit partners, employers, labor, and health/housing resources.
Be specific about whether the strategy addresses retention, upskilling, transition, job quality, or all four.
Outreach and service delivery should reflect the languages, schedules, geography, and trusted networks of the target community.
Do not treat placement alone as the success measure if the program is explicitly about mobility and good jobs.
Ask what they would repeat, redesign, or resource differently after implementation began.
Implementation traps
A course is not enough if the participant cannot see a credible next job or wage step.
Farmworker programs can underperform when recruitment is designed only through institutional channels.
Transportation, scheduling, language, childcare, housing, and benefits barriers vary by geography and worker circumstances.
Source authority
Read the old SFP together with the award and current-round notices.
WSIN25-20 — PY 25-26 FAP solicitation
WSIN25-31 — PY 25-26 FAP award
EDD awardee list and program context
WSIN26-12 — PY 26-27 FAP solicitation
Readiness steps and implementation traps are practical recommendations, not additional EDD requirements.
Rewritten from a closed PY 25-26 solicitation into an award-portfolio and next-round readiness brief.