Priority of Service

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Priority of Service


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Priority of Service

• Areas of Discussion
• Overview of Demographics and Trends
• Overview of Floridas Organizational
  Relationships
• Identifying and Informing Covered Persons
• Service Delivery
• Floridas Strategic Plan
• Floridas Partnerships
• Monitoring Compliance with Priority of Service

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Priority of Service Florida Demographics and
Facts based 2008 data

• Demographics
• 1,715,114 veterans in Florida
• 213,642 Retirees and Survivors
• Floridas Military Currently Serving
• 116,197 service members claim Florida as their
  home state
• 49,862 Reserve/National Guard(12,000 of whom are
  National Guard)

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Priority of Service Florida Demographics and Facts

• Trends and Conditions
• As of 2008, 53 veterans migrated to Florida per
  day, outpacing the next fastest growing state
  (Arizona) by 37
• Florida has third largest disabled veteran
  population in the country.
• 80,470 service-connected disabled veterans
  population 65 and older.
• 758,975 veterans over the age of 65
• 124,685 veterans over the age of 85- fastest
  growing segment of the population in general

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AWI Organizational Relationships
Workforce Florida, Inc.
AWI
Contract

• Policy
• Chartering
• Plan Approval
• Budget Approval
• Performance Oversight

• Performance Contracts
• Memorandums of Understanding
• Notice of Financial Award
• Program/Financial Monitoring

• Chartering
• Plan Approval
• Budget Approval
• Performance Oversight

• Funding Agreements
• Financial Monitoring

Workforce Services
Early Learning
Unemployment Compensation
24 Regional Workforce Boards -One Stop Career
Centers -Service Providers -Training Providers
Early Learning Coalitions
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Priority of Service Floridas Organization
relationships

Regional Workforces Boards Veterans Programs
Websites \ http//www.tcjobs.org/vets
/index.htm
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Priority of Service Identifying and Informing
Covered Persons

• Key Definitions
• USDOL Solicitors Office determined the
  definition at 38 U.S.C. 101(2) applies for
  priority of service Functionally equivalent to
  WIA and applies to WIA program eligibility
• Differs from Wagner-Peyser definition of
  eligible veteran which includes 180-day
  criterion and applies to DVOP/LVER program
  eligibility and Wagner-Peyser program reporting

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Priority of Service Identifying and Informing
Covered Persons

• Key Definitions
• For priority of service purposes, the regulations
  establish the definitions that apply for Veteran
  and Eligible Spouse.
• For program eligibility purposes, program intent
  or focus establishes the definitions that apply
  to the specific programs.

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Priority of Service Identifying and Informing
Covered Persons

• Floridas eligible veterans and eligible spouses
  are notified of programs and/or services
  available at the point of entry.
• Point of entry includes
• physical locations, such as One-Stop Career
  Centers
• web site
• Career/Jobs Fairs
• Mass Recruitments

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Priority of Service Service Delivery

Florida uses the Employ Florida Marketplace (EFM)
as the employment service delivery system. EFMs
features include Identifying all self-registered
veterans and eligible spouses, which includes
Unemployment Insurance (UC) Migration. A
messaging system-to communicate with veterans,
providing information on job alerts, job fair and
veterans related information. Virtual
Recruiter- A search agent that automatically
reviews job postings and notifies the client of
jobs that match their skills
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Priority of Service Service Delivery
Point of Service Entry using EMF, In the past 6
Months 75 of veterans have self-registered in
EFM vice staff-assisted registrations at the
One-Stop
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Priority of Service Service Delivery

https//www.employflorida.com
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Priority of Service Service Delivery

Employ Florida Market Place (EFM) Newly
Registering veterans and eligible spouses
are presented with a new a Veteran Priority of
Service button option.
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Priority of Service Service Delivery

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Priority of Service Service Delivery
When clicked, the Florida Veteran Priority of
Service page will be displayed. The same
information is located on EFM Veteran service
page. Service code 089, Notification of Veteran
Priority of Service will be added to the service
plan after a veteran self-registers. Service
code 189, Notification of Veteran Priority of
Service, has been added as a staff assisted
service to the service plan for veterans and
eligible spouses already registered in EFM.
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Priority of Service Monitoring
Regional Workforce Boards have been notified of
the Priority of Service button and associated
service codes in the EFM system. All One-Stop
staff have been trained on these additions For
monitoring proposes, The Priority of Service
codes 089 and189 will be reviewed during State
monitoring and Technical assistance visits.
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Priority of Service Service Delivery

• Upcoming changes to EFM
• Unemployment Insurance applicants will be sent a
  welcoming letter with a job listing that matches
  their skills.
• Ability to directly upload resumes into the EFM
  system, vice cut and pastes or using the resume
  builder.

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Priority of Service Service Delivery

• Remember
• Veterans Priority of
  Service is a One-Stop
• Career Center staff
  responsibility

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Priority of Service Veteran Staff Responsibility

• Veteran Staff Proactive activities Include
• Veterans staff routinely query self-registered
  veterans in the EFM system.
• 2. After identification the veterans staff sends
  a welcome message through the EFM messaging
  system outlining Veterans services and
  highlighting priority of services.
• 3. Veterans Staff follow-up with phone calls and
  emails.
• 4. Veterans Staff schedule appointments, conduct
  initial assessments and discuss priority of
  service.

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Priority of Service Veteran Staff Responsibility

• 5. Veterans staff routinely conducts Veteran file
  searches, matching qualified Veterans to recently
  posted jobs, in particular Federal Contractor
  positions involving priority of service.
• 6. Veterans staff organize and host Veterans
  Priority of Service career fairs and mass
  recruiting events.
• 7. Veterans Staff conducts on-going training to
  One-Stop Staff on Priority of Service and other
  Veterans programs.

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Priority of Service Veteran Staff Responsibility

• The EFM registered Veteran characteristics
  include
• Potential Eligibility for Veteran Benefits
• Veteran Discharge Status
• Veteran Status
• Transitioning Service Members
• Disabled Veteran Status

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Priority of Service Strategic Planning

• State Workforce Agency-Issued Priority of Service
  guidance to Regional Workforce Boards.
• State Workforce Agency will ensure all individual
  DOL funded whole or in part programs policies
  Incorporate priority of service.
• State Veterans Program coordinator conducts
  State-wide training sessions, to include priority
  of service.

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Priority of Service Strategic Planning

• Local Workforce Boards- Local Workforce Boards
  two year Strategic Plans have incorporated
  Veterans Priority of Service.
• State Veterans Coordinator will continue to
  review each of these two year Strategic Plans.
• One-Stop Career Centers, continuously update
  processes to ensure Veterans and eligible spouses
  are made aware of
• Their entitlement to priority of service
• All employment, training and placement services
  
• available.
• The eligibility requirements for those programs
  or
• services.

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Priority of Service Florida Partnerships

• Florida supports a proactive, united-front, and
  well coordinated seamless approach to serving the
  needs of returning veterans and military
  families.
• On April 17, 2008, A Collaboration between
  federal and state agencies, and other veterans
  and military advocates created the Strategic Plan
  for Serving Florida's Veterans Florida Vets
  First, Serving Those Who Serve
• The plan included
• Creating the Florida Vets first website

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• The Florida Vets first website Is broken down
  into the following services
• Veterans Workforce Services
• Veterans Housing, Homelessness, and Services for
  Transitioning Incarcerated Veterans
• Veterans Healthcare Services
• Veterans Benefits and Services
• http//www.floridavets.org/first.asp

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Priority of Service Florida Partnerships

• Some of the goals established in the Strategic
  Plan for Serving Florida's Veterans Include
• Promoting the employment of veterans to Floridas
  business community, utilizing the network of
  employer advocates, i.e. Enterprise Florida,
  Florida Chamber of Commerce, Florida Council of
  100, and others.
• Provide immediate access to education and
  training for severely injured/Disabled Veterans
  through the VA Vocational Rehabilitation and
  Employment Program, Workforce Investment Act
  (WIA), and other workforce resources.

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Priority of Service Florida Partnerships

• Establishing satellite One-Stop Career Centers at
  all Military Base Family Support Centers.
• Provide entrepreneurial assistance to veterans
  through the Small Business Administration and
  Florida Small Business Development Network.
• Continue to establish support systems to assist
  veterans with removing barriers to employment.

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Priority of Service Florida Partnerships

Additionally, the Florida Department of Veterans
Affairs (FDVA) and the Workforce agency veterans
program, established a data sharing agreement by
routinely supplying a list of veterans returning
to Florida by regional area. Veteran Staff, then
provide outreach activities to locate those
returning veterans making them aware of the
One-Stop services available.

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Priority of Service Marketing Veteran Services

• State Level and regional workforce boards have
  created Veteran pamphlets and booklets to market
  veterans programs.
• Other initiatives include
• Television commercials
• Radio spots
• Newspaper articles
• Local community outreach

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Questions???
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Contact Information
Shawn Forehand
Stan Kurtz State Veterans
Programs Coordinator (850)
921-3309 (850) 245- 7424
Fax (850)
921-3495 shawn.forehand_at_flaawi.com
stan.kurtz_at_flaawi.com Resou
rces AWI Veterans Workforce program Resources
http//www.floridajobs.org/workforce/Vet_Resource
s.html An equal opportunity employer/program.
Auxiliary aids and services are available upon
request to individuals with disabilities. All
voice telephone numbers on this document may be
reached by persons using TTY/TDD equipment via
the Florida Relay Service at 711.