USDOL / VETS

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USDOL / VETS Programs for Maryland Veterans
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VETS Mission

• To provide Veterans and Transitioning Service
  members with the resources and services to
  succeed in the 21st Century workforce by
  maximizing their employment opportunities,
  protecting their employment rights, and meeting
  labor market demands with qualified Veterans.

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VETS Employment Programs

• VETS supports a number of employment and training
  programs for veterans in Maryland including
• Jobs for Veterans State Grants
• Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program (HVRP)
  Grants
• Veterans Workforce Investment Program (VWIP)
  Grants
• Incarcerated Veterans Transitional Program Grant
  (IVTP)
• Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment
  Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA)
• Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998
  (VEOA)
• Transition Assistance Program (TAP)

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Jobs for Veterans Act

• Jobs for Veterans Act, P.L. 107-288, provides
  priority of service to veterans and spouses of
  certain veterans for the receipt of employment,
  training, and placement services in any job
  training program directly funded, in whole or in
  part, by the Department of Labor.
• Authorizes Local Veterans Employment
  Representative (LVER) and Disabled Veterans
  Outreach (DVOP) Programs.

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Marylands LVER / DVOP Grants

• This three million dollar annual grant supports
• 25 DVOP Staff
• 17 LVER Staff
• 15,264 veterans registered as of 6/30/09
• 5,651 veterans entered employment as of 6/30/09

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Statewide Network

• Both Disabled Veterans Outreach Program (DVOP)
  and Local Veterans Employment Representative
  (LVER) staff are located in the State Workforce
  Agency One-Stop Career Centers statewide.
• LVER staff facilitate the delivery of employment
  and training opportunities and services for
  veterans.
• DVOP specialists provide intensive services to
  individual veterans with barriers to employment
  (including ex-offenders)

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Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program (HVRP)

• Currently authorized under Title 38 United States
  Code, Section 2021, as amended by Section 5 of
  Public Law 107-95, the Homeless Veterans
  Comprehensive Assistance Act of 2001.
• Section 2021 requires the Secretary of Labor to
  conduct, directly or through grant or contract,
  such programs as the Secretary determines
  appropriate to expedite the reintegration of
  homeless veterans into the labor force.
• Administered by the Assistant Secretary for USDOL
  VETS

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HVRP Objectives

• (1) To provide services to assist in
  reintegrating homeless veterans into meaningful
  employment within the labor force and
• (2) To stimulate the development of effective
  service delivery systems that will address the
  complex problems facing homeless veterans. 

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Maryland HVRP Grants

• Maryland currently has two HVRP grantees
• The Maryland Center for Veterans Education and
  Training, Inc. (MCVET)
• Way Station, Inc.

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Maryland Center for Veterans Education and
Training (MCVET)

• Current grant period 7/1/10 6/30/11
• (First Year of 3 Year Cycle)
• Grant Amount 300,000
• Baltimore location
• Employment focused program
• Hosts full time DVOP on site.

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Way Station, Inc.

• Current grant period 7/1/10 6/30/11
• (Second Year of 3 Year Cycle)
• Grant amount - 299,999
• Frederick Based
• Serves veterans in multiple counties
• Employment focused program

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Veterans Workforce Investment Program (VWIP)

• Authorized under Public Law 105-220, WIA Section
  168
• Employment Training Programs that meet the
  needs of veterans
• with service-connected disabilities
• Veterans who have significant barriers to
  employment including ex-offenders
• veterans who served on active duty in the armed
  forces during a campaign or expedition for which
  a campaign badge has been authorized, and
• recently separated veterans (48 months).

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VWIP Objectives

• To provide services to assist in reintegrating
  veterans into meaningful employment within the
  labor force.
• To stimulate the development of effective
  delivery systems that will address the complex
  employment problems facing veterans.

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VWIP Facts

• All VWIP grants are competitively awarded.
• All VWIP Grants are Employment Focused.
• VWIP under WIA while HVRP is under Title 38.
• Note VWIP, HVRP, and IVTP objectives are the
  same to transition veterans into the workforce
  but they serve different targeted veteran groups.

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Maryland VWIP Grants

• Maryland currently has two VWIP grantees
• Way Station, Inc.
• Easter Seals

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Marylands VWIP Grant

• Way Station, Inc. (Frederick, MD)
• Current Grant Period 7/1/10 6/30/11
• (Second Year of 3 Year Cycle)
• Current Grant Amount 500,000
• Serves veterans in multiple counties
• Employment focused program with emphasis on
  green jobs

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Marylands VWIP Grant

• Easter Seals (Silver Spring, MD)
• Current Grant Period 7/1/10 6/30/11
• (First Year of 3 Year Cycle)
• Current Grant Amount 499,695
• Serves veterans in multiple counties
• Employment focused program with emphasis on
  green jobs

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Incarcerated Veterans Transitional Program (IVTP)

• Grant funded under the authority of 38 U.S.C.
  Section 2021 and 2023 as amended by PL 110-387,
  Sec. 602, titled the Expansion and Extension of
  Authority for Program of Referral and Counseling
  Services for At Risk Veterans Transitioning from
  Certain Institutions.

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IVTP Objectives

• To provide referral and counseling services to
  assist reintegrating incarcerated and/or
  transitioning incarcerated veterans who are at
  risk of becoming homeless into meaningful
  employment within the labor force.
• To stimulate the development of effective
  delivery systems that will address the complex
  employment problems facing incarcerated and/or
  transitioning incarcerated veterans who are at
  risk of homelessness.

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Marylands IVTP Grant

• Way Station, Inc. (Frederick, MD)
• Current Grant Period 7/1/10 6/30/11
• (First Year of 3 Year Cycle)
• Current Grant Amount 300,000
• Serves veterans in multiple counties
• Employment focused program with emphasis on
  successfully transitioning incarcerated veterans
  back to their communities

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USERRA Title 38 USC, Sections 4301-4333

• Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment
  Rights Act (USERRA)
• Purpose
• To encourage non-career, uniformed service by
  minimizing or eliminating the disadvantages of
  temporarily and/or periodically leaving covered
  employment in the public or private sectors for
  covered service in the uniformed services.

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VETS Responsibilities under USERRA

• To assist employers, unions and other interested
  parties in resolving matters involving employment
  and reemployment rights issues while minimizing
  necessity for litigation.
• When necessary, conduct investigations and seek
  compliance with applicable statutes.

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Transition Assistance Program(TAP)

• 2.5 days of Instruction for Separating Military
  Service Members
• Career self-assessment, guidance, and
  decision-making Resume Development Job Search
  and Interviewing Labor Market Information
• Presented at military bases where separation
  occurs
• CONUS (including Alaska and Hawaii)
• OCONUS (Overseas)
• Facilitators
• DVOP specialists/LVER staff/other State staff
• Contracted Staff
• VETS Federal Staff
• NVTI Trained

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TRANSITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM IN MARYLAND

• 8 Military Installations
• 2 ½ - 3 Day Job search Workshops
• Total classes in FY 09 - 95
• Total participants in FY 09 - 2,555
• Facilitators
• Contractors 6 sites
• DOD 1 site
• LVER 1 site

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Marylands Local VETS

• Your Local VETS staff in Maryland are
• Stan Seidel U.S. Department of Labor
• Director Veterans Employment and Training
  Service
• seidel.stanley_at_dol.gov 1100 N. Eutaw Street,
  Room 201
• [phone] Baltimore, MD 21201
• Marcus Wardlaw
• Assistant Director
• wardlaw.marcus2_at_dol.gov William Slemmer
• [phone] Assistant Director
• slemmer.william_at_dol.gov
• U.S. Department of Labor/VETS
• Janet Boyd 14 N. Potomac Street, Suite 100
• Veterans Program Assistant Hagerstown, MD
  21740
• boyd.janet_at_dol.gov [phone]
• [phone] [phone] (fax)
• [phone] (fax)

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Additional Information

• For more information on U.S. Department of
  Labor, Veterans Employment and Training Service
  programs, please visit our web site at
• www.dol.gov/vets