Located in:
- Jobs for Veterans’ State Grants
(OMB Control Number: 1293-0017)
Components of the Jobs for Veterans State Grants State Plan
Jobs for Veterans State Grants (JVSG) recipients must provide a four-year state plan as a condition for the receipt of annual funding in accordance with 38 U.S.C. § 4102A(c). This plan must include responses to each of the components below.
d. Demonstrate the manner in which DVOP, LVER and consolidated DVOP/LVER staff are integrated into the state’s employment service delivery systems or American Job Center (AJC). This demonstration should show active engagement between JVSG and other AJC staff, such as through participation in staff meetings and cross-training opportunities.
Current Narrative:
JVSG funded services are not only a mandatory partner under WIOA, but Missouri considers these services to be a key feature of the local One-Stop system. The local area WIOA Plan governs the partnership between the One-Stop system and JVSG funded services. The plan describes how veterans will be provided priority in job placement and training activities, how case management services will be provided to veterans and eligible persons, and details linkages with Department of Veterans Affairs, Missouri Veterans Commission and other veteran service organizations. Missouri has integrated DVOP and CODL specialists into the one-stop system by assigning one or more to each workforce region. DVOP and CODL specialists work with local one-stop partners to provide services to veterans, with the primary focus on providing individualized career services to disabled veterans, eligible veterans, and other eligible persons with significant barriers to employment. All workforce regions have an integrated, business services function responsible for connecting local employers to the local one-stop system, to include job ready candidates. This team also has as a major function ensuring that all job center services continuously improve and are responsive to the needs of residents, employers, partner agencies and organizations and the local economy. DVOP, CODL specialists and LVER staff act as individual representatives within this service team and distribute JVSG information to one-stop partners, veteran service organizations, and community partners. These individual representatives focus on the individualized career services, employer and employment services, and the provision of services specific to their individual roles and responsibilities. The intent is to integrate within these groups and open all avenues of assistance to Veterans and to assist the job center, Veteran Service Officers and community groups with services to veterans. The LVER and DVOP are often sought out by staff for their knowledge and resources of other local Veteran Service Organizations, specifically when staff meet with a veteran who may not have an SBE but have a unique need of assistance.
Integration into One-Stop System
The blueprint for integration and coordination of services to veterans is provided through State policy and narrative explanations contained in local area WIOA plans. Ongoing oversight of services to veterans is conducted to ensure these plans are carried out. To be approved, these plans must describe:
1) how available resources (WIOA, Wagner-Peyser, and others) are pooled within the one-stop system to provide core and individualized career services for veterans;
2) the process used to accomplish intake, assessment, registration, and follow-up services for veterans;
3) a description of mediated and non-mediated services available to veterans and other eligible persons;
4) how veterans are provided priority in placement services and activities, funded by the Department of Labor in whole or in part; and
5) a detailed description of how case management services are provided to veterans.