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Competency

The Roles of the LVERs & DVOP Specialists

Veteran Eligibility AJC and Priority of Service

Participants will gain knowledge and understanding in the relevant provisions of veteran-related legislation, including:

Competency

Integration within the AJC Working with Veterans Businesses Community Based Organizations

Participants will learn strategies for refining their relationships for and with:

CompetencyParticipants 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.

CompetencyParticipants 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.

CompetencyParticipants 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

CompetencyParticipants will learn how to convey to veterans the importance of continuing self-directed professional development to maintain employment.

Facilitating VeteranEmployment

U. S. Department of Labor Organizational Chart

Secretary of Labor

RAVET

VETS Assistant Secretary of Labor

Thomas Perez

Mike Michaud

Region 1Boston

Region 2Philadelphia

Region 3 Atlanta

Region 4Chicago

Region 5Dallas

Region 6San Francisco

U. S. Department of Labor Organizational Chart

Secretary of Labor

RAVET

ADVETVPA

DVET

VETS Assistant Secretary of Labor

Thomas Perez

Mike Michaud

LVER

AJC

DVOP

SVC

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

Disabled Veterans Outreach Program

Roles and Responsibilities

4103A / VPL

Title 38 U.S.C. Chapter 41

Full or part-timeRole is Intensive Services/Facilitating Placements:

A. Special disabled veteransB. Other disabled veteransC. Other eligible veterans

Section 4103 A

Maximum emphasis in meeting the employment needs of veterans shall be placed on assisting economically or educationally disadvantaged veterans.

LVER Utilization Title 38 U.S.C. Chapter 41

Section 4104 (b)

(1) Outreach to employers:o conduct seminars for employers o in conjunction with employers, conduct job search

workshops and establish job search groups;

(2) Facilitate employment, training and placement services furnished to veterans.

LVER Utilization Title 38 U.S.C. Chapter 41

Section 4104 (b)

and

and(e) Reporting

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

Statutorily-Mandated Responsibilities

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 direct services to

participants

are not to provide services to any other

population.

DVOP Specialists LVER Staff

*or other populations as specified by the Secretary

1. Special disabled or disabled veteran (38 USC 4211)2. Homeless (Homeless Assistance Act 42 USC 11302(a))3. Recently-separated currently long term unemployed

(27 weeks within the last 12 months)4. Offender incarcerated or released (WIOA Section 3(38)) 5. Lacking a high school diploma or equivalent6. Low-income (as defined by WIOA Section 3(36))

Significant Barrier to EmploymentVPL 03-14 / TEGL 19-13

Additional Populations (04-14, 07-14 and 08-14)

DVOP specialists may also provide services to the following populations:

◦ Veterans, ages 18-24

◦ Transitioning service members in need of intensive services (Warm hand-off/Incomplete Career Readiness Standards and those Involuntary separated by reason of RIF)

◦ Wounded Warriors in military treatment facilities and their family caregivers.

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Total Veteran population(~21.2 million)

Veterans seeking AJC Services

(1.3 million participants)

Veterans with SBE (417,000 participants)

DVOP Specialists (328,000

participants)

Serving Veterans at American Job Centers

DVOP Specialist DutiesVPL 03-14 / TEGL 19-13

Consistent with WIOA Section 134(c)(2), the intensive services category now is clarified to include:Comprehensive and specialized assessment

Develop an individual employment plan

Short-term pre-vocational services

Individual counseling / career planning

Group Counseling

CM Components:

Case Management Case management is a service delivery strategy

Conduct an assessment Develop an employment plan

Follow-up

LVER UtilizationVPL 03-14 / TEGL 19-13

LVER Duties/Employer OutreachVPL 03-14 / TEGL 19-13

• Planning & participating in job & career fairs

• Conducting employer outreach

LVER Duties/Employer OutreachVPL 03-14 / TEGL 19-13

In conjunction with employers, conducting job searches and workshops, and establishing job search groups

LVER Duties/Employer OutreachVPL 03-14 / TEGL 19-13

Coordinating with unions, apprenticeship programs and businesses or business organizations to promote and secure employment and training programs for veterans

LVER Duties/Employer OutreachVPL 03-14 / TEGL 19-13

Informing Federal Contractors of the process to recruit qualified veterans.

Promoting credentialing and licensing opportunities for veterans

LVER Duties/Employer OutreachVPL 03-14 / TEGL 19-13

Coordinating and participating with other business outreach efforts

Definitions:Eligible Person

Special Disabled VeteranEligible Veteran

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.

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.

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

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)

Eligible VeteranChapter 42 Section 4211

This role conducts outreach to businesses as a main function

of their position?

DVOPLVER

AJC Staff

Sally comes into the AJC office. She is a veteran and shows her

Gold Card at the reception desk. Who would assist Sally?

DVOPLVER

AJC Staff

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?

DVOPLVER

AJC Staff

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?

DVOPLVER

AJC Staff

Who works with the business services team?

DVOPLVER

AJC Staff

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?

DVOPLVER

AJC Staff

This person has many roles, but their primary function is to

outreach to employers?

DVOPLVER

AJC Staff

One of the functions of this persons job is to work with apprenticeship programs?

DVOPLVER

AJC Staff

Morgan is a veteran who lives with his sister and sleeps on

her couch. When he visits the AJC, who

would assist him?

DVOPLVER

AJC Staff

Many individuals in the AJC provide IS.

This person provides IS for individuals who have SBEs…

DVOPLVER

AJC Staff

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?

DVOPLVER

AJC Staff

Performance Measures

DVOP

AJC

LVER

VETERAN and DISABLED VETERAN• Entered Employment Rate• Employment Retention Rate • Six-month Average Earnings

Percentage of veterans served by the DVOP who receive IS.

JVSG Performance Measures (DVOP)

LVER – Business Relations Individual Employers/Businesses

Contacted Number of DVOP IS veterans whom

businesses will be contacted by LVER staff for job development.

JVSG Performance Measures

(LVER)

All Veterans, Eligible Persons and Disabled Veterans • Entered Employment Rate • Employment Retention Rate • Average Earnings

IS services received from DVOP compared to AJC staff.

Statewide Labor Exchange Measures

AJC Veterans Businesses Community based organizations

Positives, challenges, communication for a “win-win”, strategies and techniques…

Refining Relationships for Integration

Priority of Service

`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

Key Definitions

20 CFR 1010.200

`Qualified job training program' is any workforce preparation, development, or delivery program or service that is directly funded, in whole or in part, by the Department of Labor.

(Chapter 42, section 4215)

Key Definitions

Veteran [38 USC 101(2)] Active military service Discharged under “other than dishonorable” conditions

20 CFR 1010.110

This definition differs from the Wagner-Peyser definition that appears at 38 U.S.C. 4211(4)(A) and includes a “180 day” criterion

Key Definitions

Eligible Spouse Eligibility derived from a living veteran

Service member is missing in action, captured or forcibly detained

Veteran has total service-connected disability, per VA evaluation

Eligibility derived from a deceased veteran Veteran died of a service-connected disability Veteran died while a total service-connected

disability, per VA evaluation, was in existence20 CFR 1010.110

Key Definitions

A covered person is entitled to priority of service under any qualified job training program if the person otherwise meets the eligibility requirements for participation in such program.

20 CFR 1010.110

Entitlement

The right to take precedence over non-covered persons – Depending on the type of service or resource being provided, taking precedence may mean:

20 CFR 1010.200Priority Defined

Covered person gains access to service or resource earlier than the non-covered persons

Covered person receives service or resource instead of a non-covered person when resources are limited AJC

Identifying covered persons at point of entry

Implementing processes to ensure covered persons are made aware of: Entitlement to priority of service Other employment, training and placement services

available Eligibility requirements for those programs or services

20 CFR 1010.230

Identifying and Informing

§ 1010.300(b)(2) of the Rule states: The processes for identifying covered persons are not required to verify the status of an individual as a veteran or eligible spouse at the point of entry unless they immediately undergo eligibility determination and enrollment in a program. (emphasis added)

Clarifying the Purposes

Priority of Service