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.
b. List the populations to be served by Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program (DVOP) and consolidated position staff, including the eligibility criteria for referral for DVOP services.
Current Narrative:
Veterans and eligible persons with significant barriers to employment (SBE), economically or educationally disadvantaged, recently separated, homeless, including domestic violence and other dangerous or life threating conditions, offenders and veterans between the ages 18-24, Vietnam-era veterans, and eligible transitioning service members, identified in VPL 03-19 as the target groups for services by Disabled Veterans Outreach Program (DVOP) specialists and Consolidated Disabled Veteran Outreach Program Specialist (CP) . The state will focus efforts to increase services and outreach to the target populations as identified in guidance.
Targeted veterans are identified as the following:
- 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.
- Homeless, as defined in Section 103(a)and (b) of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11302(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;
- An offender, as defined by WIOA Section 3(38), who is has been released from incarceration;
- Lacking a high school diploma or equivalent certificate;
- Low-income (as defined by WIOA at Sec. 3(36);
- Veterans Aged 18 to 24;
- Vietnam-era Veterans;
- Eligible Transitioning Service Members, Spouses and Caregivers.
Veterans are requested by intake staff to complete the Eligibility Triage Form and if they meet the eligibility requirements are then referred to a DVOP or Consolidated DVOP/LVER for service.