The Farmworker Career Development Program (FCDP) provides free of charge education, appropriate training, and career services to eligible migrant and seasonal farmworkers leading to year-round high skill/high wage employment. Our goals are to help farmworkers, nursery workers, packing house workers, and their children increase knowledge of non-agricultural career opportunities and employability skills, obtain the education and/or job skills to prepare them to enter or advance in the non-agricultural workforce, and provide supportive services to help them reach their goals. We also provide emergency stabilization services such as food, rent, etc. to those who choose to stay in farmwork.

Funded by the US Department of Labor.

To become eligible for the FCDP, you are required to take the CASAS Assessment to meet program regulations. Just taking the assessment qualifies you, not your score.

Eligible farmworkers must meet US DOL criteria for being low income, prove a history of farmwork, have legal status in the United States, and be authorized to work in the United States. Most program participants reside in the state year-round. Individuals who answer "yes" to the following questions may be eligible to participate free of cost:
• Are you a farmworker, nursery worker or packing house worker? Are you the husband, wife, or dependent child of a farmworker, nursery worker or packing house worker?
• Are you a citizen or legal resident of the United States?
• Have you (or your parents, husband, or wife) done farmwork, nursery work or packing house work in the last 24 months?

We provide services in areas where farmworker families reside, such as Palmetto, Bradenton, Myakka City, Rubonia, Parrish, and surrounding areas.