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EPA Announces Funding Opportunities to Support Farmworker Communities
WASHINGTON – Today, Oct. 1, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is
announcing three new funding opportunities to support pesticide safety
education for farmworkers, training for health care providers to better
address pesticide-related illness, and technical assistance to support
managing these grants. A total of almost $10 million will be awarded to at
least four grantees to carry out this work over five years.
Over two million farmworkers help grow and harvest the food that feeds our
nation. Farmworkers and their families are at high risk for pesticide exposure
due to their work in and around areas where pesticides are used. Additionally,
pesticide-related illness is widely misdiagnosed and underreported, in part
because health care providers receive only limited training on occupational
and environmental health. This population is largely comprised of people of
color and immigrants with limited English proficiency, low incomes, and
limited access to health care, making the health and safety of farmworker
communities an issue of environmental justice.
“These programs are a critical step in EPA’s commitment to environmental
justice,” said Assistant Administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and
Pollution Prevention Michal Freedhoff. “Farmworkers are at greater risk of
developing pesticide-related illnesses, which is often misdiagnosed and
mistreated. It’s vital that we invest in improving pesticide safety
education and health care for farmworker communities.”
More information about each funding opportunity can be found below.
Farmworker Training and Education Program for Pesticide Safety
EPA is soliciting applications from community-based farmworker nonprofit
organizations with experience in training agricultural workers or pesticide
handlers or developing educational materials for them to support training,
materials development and outreach to farmworker communities on pesticide
safety, as well as to help them understand their rights under the Agricultural
Worker Protection Standard (WPS) – a regulation that seeks to limit
occupational pesticide exposure. The new program builds on decades of efforts
by previous grantees while also including new measures to ensure projects are
tailored to the need and culture of farmworker communities and in
farmworkers’ native languages. EPA anticipates awarding two cooperative
agreements to community-based farmworker organizations. A total of up to $6.3
million will be awarded to these five-year agreements beginning in 2025.
Please see EPA’s Farmworker Training and Education Program for Pesticide
Safety website for more information on this agreement, eligibility and how to
apply.
Pesticides Health Care Initiative
EPA is soliciting applications from nonprofit organizations with experience
training health care providers who serve farmworker populations for a
five-year cooperative agreement of up to $2.1 million to improve health care
providers’ ability to prevent, recognize, treat, manage and report
pesticide-related illness. This will be accomplished in part by strengthening
health care providers’ consideration of nonmedical factors influencing the
health of patients at high risk of pesticide illness – the conditions in
which they are born, grow, work, live and age. 
Please see EPA’s Pesticides Health Care Initiative website for more
information on this agreement, eligibility and how to apply.
Pesticide Safety Grants Technical Assistance
EPA is soliciting applications for a cooperative agreement of up to $1.47
million to provide technical assistance with grants administration and
compliance for grantees of the Farmworker Training and Education Program for
Pesticide Safety and Pesticides Health Care Initiative agreements described
above.  This Grants Technical Assistance agreement will ensure that grantees
have the support and resources necessary to manage EPA cooperative agreements.
The grantee will also create resources to help organizations with the
application process and preparing applications for pesticide worker safety
cooperative agreements in the future. The technical assistance agreement will
also be five years to align with the project periods for the agreements it
will support.
Please see EPA’s Pesticides Grant Technical Assistance Program website for
more information on this agreement, eligibility and how to apply.
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