2. Veterans Workforce Program
Provides Intensive Services to Veterans with Significant Barriers to Employment to get Veterans Job Ready and Match the Veterans with Substantial and Gainful Employment

3. Veterans Priority of Service
38 U.S.C., Chapters 41 and 42
Recipients (and sub-recipients) of DOL funds for qualified job training programs are subject to the priority of service regulations, and are required by law to provide priority of service to veterans and eligible spouses.
Veterans are identified and given Priority of Service over non-covered clients.
“veteran” means a person who served at least one day in the active military, naval, or air service, and who was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable, as specified in 38 U.S.C. 101(2).

4. Veterans Priority of Service
“eligible spouse” as defined at section 2(a) of the JVA (38 U.S.C. 4215[a]) means the
spouse of any of the following:
a. Any veteran who died of a service-connected disability;
b. Any member of the Armed Forces serving on active duty who, at the time of application for the priority, is listed in one or more of the following categories and has been so listed for a total of more than 90 days:
i. Missing in action;
ii. Captured in line of duty by a hostile force; or
iii. Forcibly detained or interned in line of duty by a foreign government or power;
c. Any veteran who has a total disability resulting from a service-connected disability, as evaluated by the Department of Veterans Affairs; or
d. Any veteran who died while a disability was in existence.

5. Significant Barriers to Employment (SBE)
An eligible veteran or eligible spouse is determined to have an SBE if he or she attests to meeting at least one of the seven criteria below:
A special disabled (30%) or disabled veteran (<30%), as 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.

6. DVOP Intensive Services Provided
Conduct Comprehensive Assessment
Develop Individual Employment Plans
Provide career guidance
Refer to supportive services
Provide referrals to Training Partners
Referrals to job opening
Provide Career Guidance
Employment skills
Resume Building / Target Resumes
Interview Techniques
Job skills
Job Matching, Referrals and Placement Assistance
Federal Funded Training Programs
Resource Navigation

7. Local Veterans’ Employment Representative
LVERs conduct outreach to employers and advocate hiring opportunities for veterans, encourage the hiring of veterans with SBE’s as well as job ready Veteran in the workforce system. LVERs conduct seminars for employers and job search workshops for veterans seeking employment. They also facilitate priority of service in regard to employment, training, and placement services furnished to veterans by all staff of the workforce offices.
Performs Job Development
Manages Employer Relations
-Advocates for hiring of Veterans to employer
-Establishes, facilitates and/or maintains regular contact with employers to include federal contractors
Plans and participates in Job Fairs
Works with Unions and Business organizations to promote employment and training opportunities for veterans
Collaborates with training providers and licensing agencies to promote licensing and training opportunities for veterans

8. Veterans Workforce Outreach
DVOP specialist should target services to Special Disabled veterans, disabled veterans, economically or educationally disadvantaged veterans, and veterans with other barriers to employment especially homeless veterans.
Federal and State Vocational Rehabilitation Programs
Military Installations
WIOA and Community Partners
Homeless Shelters
Guard and Reserve
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers
Educational Institutions
VA Vet Centers
Incarcerated Veterans
Civic and Services Organizations
Native American Veterans
Community Stand Downs for Homeless Veterans

9. DES Veterans Workforce Staff
Current DVOP Staff: 35 of 36 positions filled
Phoenix Area (6 offices)
Tucson Area (5 offices)
Sierra Vista
Flagstaff
Prescott Valley
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Lake Havasu
Bullhead City
Yuma
VA Regional Office
Current LVER Staff: 12 (more will be added in 2019)
Phoenix
Tucson
Prescott
Program Manager Staff: 5
State Veterans Program Manager Phoenix
Veteran Regional Coordinators: 4
Phoenix
Tucson
Yuma

10. Veterans Workforce Program
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12. WIOA Adult Priority of Service Criteria
There are three criterion that everyone has to meet for WIOA
The criteria that an adult must meet to be considered for priority of service
include low-income status or basic skills deficiency.
An adult is low-income when he or she is: A
1. Currently receiving or has received public assistance in the
last six months, either solely or as a member of a family;
2. A member of a family whose total family income does not
exceed the higher of either the poverty line or 70 percent of
the Lower Living Standard (LLSIL);
3. A homeless individual, as defined in 42 U.S.C e-
2(6) of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, or 42
U.S.C a(2) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless
Assistance Act; or
4. An individual with a disability whose own income meets the
income requirement in Section (A)(2), but is a
member of a family whose income does not meet this
requirement.
B. An adult is basic skills deficient when he or she is unable to:
1. Compute or solve problems; or
2. Read, write, or speak English at a level necessary to
function on the job, in his or her family, or in society.

13. Eligibility of a dislocated worker is determined at the time of enrollment.
A dislocated worker is an eligible adult (see Section ) who meets
one of the following four categories.
B. Category II includes an individual who:
1. Has been terminated or laid off, or has received a notice of
termination or layoff from employment as a result of any
permanent closure of, or any substantial layoff at, a plant,
facility, or enterprise; or
D. Category IV includes an individual who:
1. Is a displaced homemaker (an individual who has been
providing unpaid services to family members in the home);
2. Is the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces on active
duty, as defined in U.S.C. Title 10 Section 101 (d) (1), and
who has experienced a loss of employment as a direct result
of relocation to accommodate a permanent change in duty
station of such member; or
3. Is the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces on active
duty, or who has been discharged from the military, and is
unemployed or underemployed and is experiencing difficulty
in obtaining or upgrading employment.

14. The expansion of DW funding to Spouses.

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