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 that attest to belonging to at least one of the six criteria listed below or are members of a special population are considered to have an SBE and are targeted by the DVOP specialist:
- A special disabled or disabled veteran, as defined in 38 U.S.C. § 4211(1) and (3);
- Homeless, as defined in Sections 103(a) and (b) of the McKinney-Vento 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 in the previous 12 months;
- Vietnam-Era Veterans
- An offender, as defined by WIOA Section 3 (38), who is currently incarcerated or who has been released from incarceration;
- Lacking a high school diploma or equivalent certificate; or
- Low-income, as defined by WIOA Section 3(36).
- Veterans, as defined in 38 U.S.C. § 4211, aged 18 to 24 that possess limited civilian work history which can make transitioning to civilian labor force difficult. Based on this fact, veterans between 18 and 24 may benefit from individualized career services
DVOP specialists shall also provide services to priority category populations identified by the Secretary under 38 U.S.C. § 4103A (a)(1)(C). Currently, the secretary has identified four such populations. These populations are:
- Transitioning service members who have participated in the Transition Assistance Program and have been identified as in need of individualized services;
- Service members who are wounded, ill or injured and receiving treatment in military treatment facilities or warrior transition units;
- The spouses or other family caregivers of such wounded, ill or injured service members;
- Native American tribes live in open tribal lands and are not segregated from the general public. As such, resources of other organizations that provide individualized services to veterans are openly available to the very small Native American population.
References:
- VPL 03-14, Jobs for Veterans’ State Grants (JVSG) Program Reforms and Roles and Responsibilities of American Job Center (AJC) Staff Serving Veterans.
- VPL 03-14, Change 1, Expansion and Clarification of Definition of Significant Barriers to Employment for Determining Eligibility for the Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program (DVOP).
- VPL 03-14, Change 2, Expansion and Clarification of Homeless Definition as a Significant Barrier to Employment.
- VPL 03-19, Designation of Additional Populations Eligible for Services from Disabled Veteran’s Outreach Program Specialists.
- VPL 07-14, American Job Center (AJC) Participation in Capstone Activities and Other Outreach to Transitioning Service Members (Note: Clarifies the specific population of transitioning service members who can be served.)