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2 Year Modification

Plan: Colorado PYs 2022-2023 (Mod)
Combined Plan C

Section: Jobs for Veterans State Grants Program

Narrative: e.

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  • Jobs for Veterans’ State Grants

    (OMB Control Number: 1225-0086)

    The Jobs for Veterans’ State Grants (JVSG) are mandatory, formula-based staffing grants to States (including DC, PR, VI and Guam). The JVSG is funded annually in accordance with a funding formula defined in the statute (38 U.S.C. 4102A (c) (2) (B) and regulation and operates on a fiscal year (not program year) basis, however, performance metrics are collected and reported quarterly on a Program Year basis (as with the ETA-9002 Series). Currently, VETS JVSG operates on a multi-year grant approval cycle modified and funded annually.

    In accordance with 38 U.S.C. § 4102A(b)(5) and § 4102A(c), the Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment and Training (ASVET) makes grant funds available for use in each State to support Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program (DVOP) specialists and Local Veterans' Employment Representatives (LVER) staff. As a condition to receive funding, 38 U.S.C. § 4102A(c)(2) requires States to submit an application for a grant that contains a State Plan narrative, which includes:

e. The populations of eligible veterans to be served, including any additional populations designated by the Secretary as eligible for services, and any additional populations specifically targeted by the State Workforce Agency for services from one-stop delivery system partners (e.g., Native American veterans; veterans in remote rural counties or parishes);

View corresponding narrative from PYs 2020-2023

Current Narrative:

The primary role of the DVOP specialists and CVSRs is to provide Individualized Career Services to Veterans or eligible populations who, after being properly triaged and assessed by either Wagner-Peyser or WIOA staff, are identified as a eligible populations. In order to best serve eligible populations effectively and efficiently and to better target their services, the DVOP and CVSR specialists will deliver these services utilizing a case management approach and will limit their services to eligible populations who meets the definition of an individual with a Significant Barrier to Employment (SBE), specifically defined in VPL 03-14 including Change 1 and 2, 07-14, and 03-19. Veterans and eligible populations who are categorized as having an SBE can have one or more of the following:

  • A special disabled or disabled veteran, as those terms are defined in 38 U.S.C § 4211(1) and (3); special disabled and disabled veterans are those:
    • Who are entitled to compensation (or who, but for the receipt of military retired pay, would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or,
    • Were discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability;
  • A homeless person, as defined in Sections 103(a) and (b) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. I 1302(a) and (b)), as amended;
  • A recently-separated service member, as defined in 38 U.S.C § 4211(6), who has been unemployed for 27 or more weeks in the previous 12 months;
  • An offender, as defined by WIOA Section 3 (38), who is currently incarcerated or who has been released from incarceration;
  • A veteran lacking a high school diploma or equivalent certificate; or 
  • A low-income individual (as defined by WIOA Section 3 (36));
  • Other eligible persons as defined as a spouse of a totally disabled or deceased veteran whose disability or death was service-connected, or the spouse of a service member who was listed for 90 or more days as missing in action or forcibly detained by a foreign power while serving on active duty. To be eligible for referral to DVOP services the spouse must also have one of the above listed SBE’s, if not they should be served by Wagner-Peyser staff. 

Additionally, besides targeting those with SBE’s for case management DVOPs and CVSRs will focus their efforts on these special populations:

  • Veterans between the ages of 18-24 years old; 
  • Transitioning Service Members who participated in TAP who:
    • are in need of intensive services as documented by their DD-2958; or
    • are Active Duty service members being involuntarily separated through Reduction-in-Force, or
    • are 18-24 years old.
  • Wounded Warriors as defined as members of the Armed Forces who are wounded, ill, or injured and receiving treatment in military treatment facilities or warrior transition units; or the spouses or other family caregivers of such wounded, ill, or injured members;
  • Vietnam-era Veterans as identified in 38 U.S.C. 4211, the term “Veterans of the Vietnam Era” is an eligible veteran any part of whose active military, naval, or air service was during the Vietnam era. 38 U.S.C. defines “Vietnam-Era” to mean the period beginning on February 28, 1961, and ending on May 7, 1975, in the case of a veteran who served in the Republic of Vietnam during that period, and the period beginning on August 5, 1964 and ending May 7, 1975, in all other cases.