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Facilitating Veteran Employment

Facilitating Veteran Employment. Welcome to…. Competency. Participants will gain knowledge and understanding in the relevant provisions of veteran-related legislation, including:. The Roles of the LVERs & DVOP Specialists Veteran Eligibility AJC and Priority of Service. Competency.

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Facilitating Veteran Employment

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  1. Facilitating VeteranEmployment Welcome to…

  2. Competency Participants will gain knowledge and understanding in the relevant provisions of veteran-related legislation, including: • The Roles of the LVERs & DVOP Specialists • Veteran Eligibility • AJC and Priority of Service

  3. Competency Participants will learn strategies for refining their relationships for and with: • Integration within the AJC • Working with Veterans • Businesses • Community Based Organizations

  4. Competency • Participants will have an understanding of how to maximize employment for veterans and upon completion will be able to: • Identify Veterans Characteristics, Traits, and Challenges • Connect Veteran Capabilities to Employment Opportunities.

  5. Competency • Participants will have the knowledge and ability to advise veteran clients on the use of online resources to: • Increase Access to Apprenticeship, Licensing & Certification Opportunities • Research Labor Market Dynamics and Businesses.

  6. Competency • Participants will learn how to assist veterans to effectively communicate their abilities in the job search process to advise veterans concerning: • Job Postings / Openings • Application Procedures • Resumes • Interviewing

  7. Competency • Participants will learn how to convey to veterans the importance of continuing self-directed professional development to maintain employment.

  8. Facilitating VeteranEmployment

  9. VETS Assistant Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez RAVET DVET ADVET VPA AJC LVER DVOP U. S. Department of Labor Organizational Chart Secretary of Labor Keith Kelly SVC

  10. Title 38 U.S.C.Chapters 41 & 42

  11. Disabled Veterans Outreach Program Roles and Responsibilities 4103A / VPL

  12. Title 38 U.S.C. Chapter 41 Section 4103 A Fullor part-time Role is Intensive Services/Facilitating Placements:A. Special disabled veteransB. Other disabled veteransC. Other eligible veterans Maximum emphasis in meeting the employment needs of veterans shall be placed on assisting economically or educationally disadvantaged veterans.

  13. LVER Utilization Title 38 U.S.C. Chapter 41 Section 4104 (b)

  14. LVER Utilization Title 38 U.S.C. Chapter 41 Section 4104 (b) • Outreach to employers: • conduct seminars for employers • in conjunction with employers, conduct job search workshops and establish job search groups; (2) Facilitate employment, training and placement services furnished to veterans. and and (e) Reporting

  15. Effects of Refocusing Across Programs • JVSG will serve fewer veterans and provide higher rates of intensive services • Wagner-Peyser/WIA’s workload of veteran clients will increase with fewer referrals to JVSG • Veterans will receive priority of service

  16. Statutorily-Mandated Responsibilities DVOP Specialists LVER Staff conduct ER outreach & JD in the local community, on behalf of all AJC veterans provide intensive services to veterans with SBE* are not to provide services to any other population. are not to provide direct services to participants *or other populations as specified by the Secretary

  17. Significant Barrier to EmploymentVPL 03-14 • Special disabled or disabled veteran (38 USC 4211) • Homeless (Homeless Assistance Act 42 USC 11302(a)) • Recently-separated currently long term unemployed (27 consecutive weeks within the last 12 months) • Offender released in the last 12 months (WIA section 101(27)) • Lacking a high school diploma or equivalent • Low-income(as defined by WIA sec. 101 (25)(B)

  18. Additional Populations DVOP specialists may also provide services to the following populations: As specified by the Secretary • Veterans, ages 18-24 As specified in the FY 2014 Omnibus Appropriation • Transitioning service members in need of intensive services • Wounded Warriors in military treatment facilities and their family caregivers.

  19. Serving Veterans at American Job Centers Veterans seeking AJC Services (1.3 million participants) Total Veteran population (~21.2 million) Veterans with SBE (417,000 participants) DVOP Specialists (328,000 participants)

  20. DVOP Specialist Duties VPL 03-14 Consistent with WIA Section 134(d)(3)(C), the intensive services category now is clarified to include: Comprehensive and specialized assessment Develop an individual employment plan Group Counseling • Individual counseling / career planning Short-term pre-vocational services

  21. Case Management Case management is a service delivery strategy CM Components: Conduct an assessment Develop an employment plan Follow-up

  22. LVER Utilization VPL 03-14

  23. LVER Duties/Employer Outreach VPL 03-14 • Planning & participating in job & career fairs • Conducting employer outreach

  24. LVER Duties/Employer Outreach VPL 03-14 In conjunction with employers, conducting job searches and workshops, and establishing job search groups

  25. LVER Duties/Employer Outreach VPL 03-14 Coordinating with unions, apprenticeship programs and businesses or business organizations to promote and secure employment and training programs for veterans

  26. LVER Duties/Employer Outreach VPL 03-14 Informing Federal Contractors of the process to recruit qualified veterans. Promoting credentialing and licensing opportunities for veterans

  27. LVER Duties/Employer Outreach VPL 03-14 Coordinating and participating with other business outreach efforts

  28. Definitions: Eligible Person Special Disabled Veteran Eligible Veteran

  29. Eligible PersonChapter 41 Section 4101 The term “Eligible Person" means--    (A) the spouse of any person who died of a service-connected disability,    (B) the spouse of any member of the Armed Forces serving on active duty who, for a total of more than ninety days: (i) missing in action, (ii) captured in line of duty by a hostile force, or (iii) forcibly detained or interned in line of duty by a foreign government or power, or    (C) the spouse of any person who has a total disability permanent in nature resulting from a service-connected disability or the spouse of a veteran who died while a disability so evaluated was in existence.

  30. Special Disabled VeteranChapter 42 Section 4211 The term “Special Disabled Veteran" means — (A) a veteran who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary for a disability (i) rated at 30 percent or more, or (ii) rated at 10 or 20 percent in the case of a veteran who has been determined under section 3106 of this title to have a serious employment handicap; or (B) a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of service-connected disability.

  31. Eligible VeteranChapter 42 Section 4211 The term “Eligible Veteran" means a person who: (A) served on active duty for a period of more than 180 days and was discharged or released with other than a dishonorable discharge; (B) was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability; or

  32. Eligible VeteranChapter 42 Section 4211 The term “Eligible Veteran" means a person who: (C) as a member of a reserve component under an order to active duty served on active duty during a period of war or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge is authorized and was discharged or released from such duty with other than a dishonorable discharge. (D) Was discharged or released from active duty by reason of a sole survivorship discharge (as defined by section 1174(i) of Title 10)

  33. This role conducts outreach to businesses as a main function of their position? DVOP LVER AJC Staff

  34. Sally comes into the AJC office. She is a veteran and shows her Gold Card at the reception desk. Who would assist Sally? DVOP LVER AJC Staff

  35. John is a veteran who has been unemployed for the last 19 weeks – almost 6 months. When he arrives at the AJC, who would work with John? DVOP LVER AJC Staff

  36. Ray is a recently separated veteran that tells the AJC staff member he received a dishonorable discharge. Who is the appropriate person to help Ray? DVOP LVER AJC Staff

  37. Who works with the business services team? DVOP LVER AJC Staff

  38. Julie was released last month from the state prison. She is a Marine who was honorable discharged in 2012. Who would be the appropriate person to assist Julie? DVOP LVER AJC Staff

  39. This person has many roles, but their primary function is to outreach to employers? DVOP LVER AJC Staff

  40. One of the functions of this persons job is to work with apprenticeship programs? DVOP LVER AJC Staff

  41. Morgan lives with his sister and sleeps on her couch. When he visits the AJC, who would assist him? DVOP LVER AJC Staff

  42. Many individuals in the AJC provide IS. This person provides IS for individuals who have SBEs… DVOP LVER AJC Staff

  43. The AJC manager wants to conduct a job fair next quarter. Who would be the best person to ask to organize and manage the job fair? DVOP LVER AJC Staff

  44. Performance Measures DVOP LVER AJC

  45. JVSG Performance Measures (DVOP) VETERAN and DISABLED VETERAN • Entered Employment Rate • Employment Retention Rate • Six-month Average Earnings Rate of veterans served by DVOP to those who receive I.S. Median Earnings

  46. JVSG Performance MeasuresReviewed – but not Negotiated (LVER) LVER – Business Relations • Individual Employers/Businesses Contacted • Number of DVOP IS veterans whom businesses will be contacted by LVER staff for job development.

  47. Statewide Labor Exchange Measures All Veterans, Eligible Persons and Disabled Veterans • Entered Employment Rate • Employment Retention Rate • Average Earnings Median Earnings Uniform National Threshold Entered Employment Rate or UNTEER (State EER compared to “all states” -- yardstick) IS services from DVOP compared with total veterans receiving IS

  48. Refining Relationships for Integration • AJC • Veterans • Businesses • Community based organizations Positives, challenges, communication for a “win-win”, strategies and techniques…

  49. Priority of Service

  50. Key Definitions `Priority of service'means, with respect to any qualified job training program, that a covered person shall be given priority over nonveterans for the receipt of employment, training, and placement services provided under that program. (Chapter 42, section 4215) 20 CFR 1010.200

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