JVSG State Plan Required Components

OMB Control Number 1293-0NEW

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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.

1. Describe how the state intends to provide employment, training, and job placement services to veterans and eligible persons under the JVSG program (i.e., virtually and in-person).
   
   
   

2. 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.
   
   
   

3. Describe the roles and responsibilities assigned to Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program (DVOP) specialists, Local Veterans’ Employment Representative (LVER) staff, and consolidated DVOP/LVER positions by the state. These must be consistent with 38 U.S.C. 4103A and 4104.
   
   
   

4. 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.
   
   
   

5. Describe the state's performance incentive award program to encourage individuals and/or employment service offices to improve and/or achieve excellence in the provision of services to veterans, including:

   1. the nomination and selection process for all performance incentive awards to individuals and/or offices;

   2. the approximate number and value of cash awards using the one percent incentive award allocation;

   3. the general nature and approximate value of non-cash performance incentive awards to be charged to the base allocation; and

   4. any challenges the state may anticipate to carrying out a performance incentive award program as mandated by 38 U.S.C. § 4102A(c). This should include any state laws or policies that prohibit such awards, if applicable. Describe the state's efforts in overcoming those challenges.
      
      
      

6. List the performance targets for direct services to veterans provided by JVSG staff, as measured by participants’:

• employment rate in the second quarter after exit from the program;

• employment rate in the fourth quarter after exit; and

• median earnings in the second quarter after exit.

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