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:
The primary role of the DVOP specialists and CVSRs is to provide individualized career services to Veterans who, after being properly triaged and assessed by either Wagner-Peyser or WIOA staff, are identified as “eligible veterans and eligible persons.” In order to best serve eligible Veterans effectively and efficiently and to better target their services, the DVOP specialists and CVSR will deliver these services utilizing a targeted career management approach and will limit their services to eligible veterans and eligible persons who meet the definition of an individual with a Significant Barrier to Employment (SBE), specifically defined in VPL’s 03-14, 03-19, and 07-14, Veterans categorized as having a SBE are:
- 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));
- Veterans between the ages of 18-24 years old;
- Transitioning Service Members who participated in TAP and are in need of individualized career services, as documented by their DD-2958;
- Active Duty service members being involuntarily separated through Reduction-in-Force
- 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;
- Other eligible persons as defined as a spouse of a totally disabled or deceased veteran whose disability or death was service-connected, or 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/CVSR services the spouse must also have one of the above listed SBE’s, if not they should be served by Wagner-Peyser staff.