AgSTEP
Overview
AgSTEP, the Ag Skills Training and Employment Program, helps farmworkers and agricultural students build skills for a changing industry through California community colleges. Its competency-based Agriculture Systems certificate recognizes what learners already know and lets them move through the material at their own pace, in English and Spanish. The credential is portable and stackable toward degrees in fields such as agricultural technology, automation and compliance. AgSTEP began at Central Valley community colleges, including Merced College, and is expanding to Shasta, Hartnell and Imperial Valley colleges with support from the Foundation for California Community Colleges. Farmworkers and students can contact a participating college about enrollment.
What they do
Competency-based agricultural training
Offers noncredit, competency-based training through community colleges, where farmworkers and other agricultural learners build on skills they already have and gain agtech skills, with bilingual support.
Stackable credentials and partnerships
Develops flexible, portable, stackable credentials that connect agricultural skills with further learning and employment, working with community colleges in several regions and with employers who connect training to industry competencies.
Programs and services
Locations
- Participating college mailing address Shasta College, P.O. Box 496006, Redding, CA 96049-6006, United States