Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program Specialist

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Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program specialists will provide individualized career (intensive) services and facilitate placements to meet the employment needs of Veterans, prioritizing service to special disabled Veterans, other disabled Veterans, and other categories of Veterans in accordance with priorities determined by the Secretary of Labor. These duties are outlined in 38 U.S.C. 4103A(a).

Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program specialists are an essential part of and fully integrated into the Work One / American Job Center network. They are included among the Work One / American Job Center partner staff, which consists of all staff employed by programs or activities operated by Work One / American Job Center partners listed in 29 U.S.C. 2841(b) that provide online and/or in-person workforce development or related support services as part of the workforce development system.

Other Work One / American Job Center partner staff members include staff of Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, Wagner Peyser, and other Work One / American Job Center network partner programs.

Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program specialists must provide individualized career (intensive) services to eligible Veterans and eligible spouses to meet their employment needs, prioritizing service to special disabled and other disabled Veterans, as defined by 3$ U.S.C. 4211, and to other eligible Veterans in accordance with priorities determined by the Secretary.

USC Title 38, Chapter 41, Section 4103A 4103A requires that Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program specialists provide individualized career services (intensive services) and facilitate job placement to Veterans with significant barriers to employment (SBE).

The statute also requires that Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program specialists place maximum emphasis on assisting Veterans who are economically or educationally disadvantaged. Intensive services provided by the Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program specialists are provided to both unemployed participants who require such services to obtain employment and to employed participants who require such services to obtain or retain employment leading to self-sufficiency.

Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program specialists must limit their activities to providing services to eligible Veterans and eligible spouses who (a). Meet the definition of an individual with a Significant Barrier to Employment (SBE), specifically defined in DOLVETS Veteran Program Letters, or (b). Are members of a Veteran population identified by the Secretary under 38 U.S.C. 4103 buss; this advice may be missing .

This guidance is meant to limit the number of eligible Veterans and eligible spouses who Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program specialists serve. Limiting Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program specialists to serving only the Veterans and eligible spouses who meet the criteria in paragraphs (a) and (b) above will ensure that the Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program specialists are serving the specific population of eligible Veterans and eligible spouses prioritized by 3$ U.S.C. 4103A.

It will also ensure that Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program specialists are better able to fulfill their primary responsibility of providing intensive services to all the people they serve.

While the Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program specialists’ provision of intensive services to these Veterans and eligible spouses may include some core services, serving a more limited population will allow Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program specialists enough time to devote a majority of their time to providing Individualized Career Services (intensive services).

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