**[U.S. Department of Labor]{.underline}**

**[Veterans\' Employment and Training Service]{.underline}**

**[GLOSSARY OF TERMS]{.underline}**

**[Adequate Employment]{.underline}** -- See Unsubsidized Employment.

**[Administrative Costs]{.underline}** - Administrative costs shall
consist of all direct and indirect costs

associated with the supervision and management of the program. These
costs shall include the administrative costs, both direct and indirect,
of sub-recipients and contractors. All indirect costs are considered
administrative costs for HVRP/VWIP purposes, therefore, administrative
costs including indirect costs shall not exceed 20% of the total grant
award.

**[Adult Basic Education]{.underline}** - Education for adults whose
inability to speak, read, or write the English language or to
effectively reason mathematically, constitutes a substantial impairment
of their ability to get or retain employment commensurate with their
real ability, which is designed to help eliminate such inability and
raise the level, of education of such individuals with a view to making
them less likely to become dependent on others, to improve their ability
to benefit from occupational training and otherwise increase their
opportunities for more productive and profitable employment, and to make
them better able to meet their adult responsibilities.

**[Ancillary Services]{.underline}** -- Employment and training-related
activities other than core training that may enhance a participant's
employability.

**[Apprenticeship Training]{.underline}** -- A formal occupational
training program that combines on-the-job training and related
instruction and in which workers learn the practical and conceptual
skills required for a skilled occupation, craft, or trade. It may be
registered or unregistered.

**[Assessment/Intake]{.underline}** - A process for screening individual
applicants for program eligibility

making the level of need determinations; making an initial determination
what services or

programs can best benefit the applicants; providing information about
services, program

eligibility, and the availability of those services, and the routing or
selecting individual

applicants for particular service delivery or program participation.

**[Assisted Placements Into Unsubsidized Employment]{.underline}** -
Assisted placements into unsubsidized employment should be recorded
where the definition for placement with unsubsidized employment above is
met, but the placement was arranged by an agency to which the homeless
veteran was referred to. Grantees can report and take credit for one (1)
assisted placement into unsubsidized employment per enrolled eligible
participant. (Also see entered employment.)

**[Average Hourly Wage At Placement -]{.underline}** The average hourly
wage at placement is the average hourly wage rates at placement of all
assisted placements plus direct placements.

**[Assurance and Certifications -]{.underline}** The act of signifying
intent to comply with applicable federal and State laws and regulations
as a condition for receiving and expending USDOL grant funds.

**[Barriers to Employment]{.underline}** - Characteristics that may
hinder an individual's hiring promotion or participation in the labor
force. Identification of these barriers will vary by location and labor
market. Some examples of individuals who may face barriers to employment
include: single parents, women, displaced homemakers, youth, public
assistance recipients, older workers, substance abusers, teenage
parents, certain veterans, ethnic minorities, and those with limited
English speaking ability or a criminal record or with a lack of
education, work experience, credential, child care arrangements,
transportation or alternative working patterns.

**[Campaign Badge veteran -]{.underline}** A veteran who served on
active duty during a war (e.g., WWII),

action (e.g., Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom)
or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge or an
expeditionary medal has been authorized (e.g. Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia and
Grenada). A complete listing is available on the following web site
maintained by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM):
<http://www.opm.gov/veterans/html/vgmedal2.asp>

**[Carry-Over Registrants]{.underline}** -- is an unduplicated count of
enrolled participants from a previous grant award period who were
unemployed at the end of the grant expiration date and who continued to
seek employment and supportive services from the grantee in the next
grant award period.  All services provided to carry-over registrants are
to be recorded in the grant period that such services are received.

For example: the initial grant award period was from July 1^st^ through
June 30^th^, a participant was enrolled into the program but as of June
30^th^ the participant was still unemployed, therefore, the participant
(who is still seeking employment and supportive services from the
grantee) will be carried over into the next grant award cycle beginning
July 1^st^. 

For example: a participant was enrolled into the program on May 23^rd^
and was still unemployed and seeking grantee assistance as of July
1^st^, therefore, this participant is carried over into the next grant
award period.

For example: a participant was enrolled into the program on February
20^th^ and entered employment on June 1^st^, therefore, this participant
does [not]{.underline} carry over into the next grant award period.

**Note:**  Carry-over registrants are added to the total number of
enrolled participants and are to be included in all applicable
performance statistics, targeted sub-groups, and calculations (i.e.,
cost per placement, placement into employment rate, number retaining
employment for 90 and 180 days, average hourly wage at placement, etc.).

  

For example:  25 currently enrolled participants plus 10 carry-over
participants from the previous grant award period equals 35 total
enrolled participants. 

-   Out of the 35 enrolled participants, 27 were successful in gaining
    employment; therefore, the grantee achieved a 77% placement into
    employment rate (27 entered employments divided by 35 total enrolled
    participants equals 77%).

-   Out of 35 enrolled participants, 27 were successful in gaining
    employment, and of those 27 who gained employment, 24 retained
    employment for 90 days, therefore, the grantee achieved a 89% 90-day
    retention in employment rate (24 retained employments divided by 27
    total entered employments equals 89%).

**[Case Management]{.underline}** - A client-centered approach in the
delivery of intensive services, designed to prepare and coordinate
comprehensive employment plans for participants, to assure access to the
necessary training and supportive services, and to provide support
during program participation and after job placement.

**[Case Manager]{.underline}** - One who coordinates, facilitates or
provides direct services to a client or trainee from application through
placement, post placement follow-up, or other case closing, exclusively,
through periodic contact and the provision of appropriate assistance.

**[Classroom Training]{.underline}** -- Any training of the type
normally conducted in an institutional setting, including vocational
education, which is designed to provide individuals with the technical
skills and information required to perform a specific job or group of
jobs. It may also include training designed to enhance the employability
of individuals by upgrading basic skills, throughout the provision of
courses such as remedial education, training in the primary language of
persons with limited English language proficiency, or English as a
second language training.

**[Close Out]{.underline}** -- Grant close out is the process by which
the Federal grantor agency (in the case of VETS grants, Department of
Labor) determines that all applicable administrative actions and all
required work of the grant have been completed by the grantee and the
grantor.

**[Cognizant Federal Agency -]{.underline}** The federal agency that is
assigned audit or indirect cost rate approval responsibility for a
particular recipient organization by the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB Circular A-87 and A-102 \[20 CFR, Part 97\]).

**[Community Based Organization]{.underline}** -- means a private
non-profit organization that is representative of a community or a
significant segment of a community and that has demonstrated expertise
and effectiveness in the field of workforce investment. Faith-Based
organizations are considered a subset.

**[Compensated Work Therapy]{.underline}** (CWT) - is a Department of
Veterans Affairs (DVA) sponsored program for veteran inpatients and
outpatients provided for under 38 U.S.C. 1718(a). CWT incorporates a
work regiment with monetary incentives. DVA reimbursements to
participants who are in the program are related to their productive
capabilities. Every effort is to be made to create a realistic work
environment - earnings should be commensurate with wages paid in the
community for essentially the same quality and quantity of work and that
payments to the patient be prompt and at regular intervals. Although
industrial business practices are utilized to simulate usual working
conditions, **therapy is still the primary objective**. The Department
of Labor, Veterans' Employment and Training Service encourages and
supports the use and integration of CWT to benefit the Homeless
Veterans' Reintegration Program (HVRP) and Veterans' Workforce
Investment Program (VWIP) enrolled participants by improving their job
readiness. For HVRP and VWIP purposes, CWT is considered a supportive
service and is [not]{.underline} to be considered a placement into
unsubsidized employment.

**[Cost Per Placement -]{.underline}** The cost per placement into
unsubsidized employment is obtained by dividing the total HVRP/VWIP
funds expended by the total number of enrolled participants placed into
employment.

For example: As of the 2^nd^ quarter, the grantee expended \$150,000 and
placed 50 enrolled participants into employment, therefore, the grantee
cost per placement was \$3,000 (\$150,000 expended divided by 50
enrolled participants into employment equals \$3,000 cost per
placement).

For example: As of the 90 day final report, the grantee expended
\$300,000 and placed 100 enrolled participants into employment,
therefore, the grantee cost per placement was \$3,000 (\$300,000
expended divided by 100 enrolled participants placed into employment
equals \$3,000 cost per placement).

**[Counseling/Vocational Guidance]{.underline}** - A form of assistance
which provides guidance in the development of a participant's vocational
goals and the means to achieve those goals; and/or assist a participant
with the solution to one or more individual problems that may pose a
barrier(s) to sustained employment. The participant is achieving
vocational goals, e.g. PTSD counseling substance abuse, counseling job
training, etc.

**[Counselor]{.underline}** - (Employment/Vocational): A trained and
qualified professional authorized to provide direct assistance (beyond
advising and informing) through planning, testing, training and
otherwise readying an individual for sustained employment.

**[Covered Veteran]{.underline}** -- Any of the following; (1) disabled
veterans; (2) veterans who served on active duty in the Armed Forces
during a war or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge
has been authorized; (3) veterans who, while serving on active duty in
the Armed Forces, participated in a United Stated military operation for
which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive
Order No. 12895; (4) Recently Separated Veterans.

**[Customized Training]{.underline}** -- A training program designed to
meet the special requirements of an employer who has entered into an
agreement with a Service Delivery Area to hire individuals who are
trained to the employer's specifications. The training may occur at the
employer's site or may be provided by a training vendor able to meet the
employer's requirements. Such training usually requires a commitment
from the employer to hire a specified number of trainees who
satisfactorily complete the training.

[Department or agency]{.underline} -- Any agency of the Federal
Government or the District of Columbia, including any Executive agency
as defined in section 105 of title 5 and the United States Postal Rate
Commission.

**[Direct Placements Into Unsubsidized Employment]{.underline}** - A
direct placement into unsubsidized employment must be a placement made
directly by staff with an established employer who covers all employment
costs for 20 or more hours per week at or above the federal minimum
wage. Day labor and other very short-term placements should not be
recorded as placements into unsubsidized employment. Grantees can report
and take credit for one (1) direct placement into unsubsidized
employment per enrolled eligible participant. (Also see entered
employment.)

**[Disabled Veteran]{.underline}** - (1) A veteran who is entitled to
compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would
be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary,
or (2) A person who was discharged or released from active duty because
of a service-connected disability.

**[Disallowed Costs]{.underline} --** Disallowed costs are those charges
to a grant that the grantor agency (or its representative) determines to
be unallowable in accordance with the applicable Federal Cost Principles
or other conditions in the grant.

**[DVET]{.underline}** -- Director of Veterans' Employment and Training

**[DVOP]{.underline}** -- (Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program) A
program of Federal assistance through grants to States to staff
full-time and half-time Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program Specialists
as the State determines appropriate and efficient to carry out intensive
services in accordance with 38 U.S.C. 4103A.

**[Economically Disadvantaged]{.underline}** -- An individual who (a)
receives, or is a member of a family which receives, cash welfare
payments under a Federal, state, or local welfare program; (b) has, or
is a member of a family which has, received a total family income for
the six-month period prior to application for the program involved
(exclusive of unemployment compensation, child support payments, and
welfare payments) which, in relation to family size, was not in excess
of the higher of (i) the official poverty line (as defined by the Office
of Management and Budget, and revised annually in accordance with
section 673 (2) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (42
U.S.C. 9902(2)), or (ii) 70 percent of the lower living standard income
level; (c) is receiving (or has been determined within the 6-month
period prior to the application for program involved to be eligible to
receive) food stamps pursuant to the Food Stamp Act of 1977; (d)
qualifies as a homeless individual under section 103 of the Stewart B.
McKinney Homeless Assistance Act; (e) is a foster child on behalf of
whom state or local government payments are made; or (f) in cases
permitted by regulations of the Secretary of Labor, is an individual
with a disability whose income meets the requirements of clause (a) or
(b), but who is a member of a family whose income does not meet such
requirements.

**[Eligible]{.underline}** - Meeting the minimum requisite
qualifications to be considered for the provision of services or entry
into a position under a funded program or as required by law.

[**Employability Development Services** (EDS) **-**]{.underline} This
includes services and activities that will develop or increase the
employability of the participant. Generally, this includes vocational
counseling, classroom and on-the-job training, pre-employment services
(such as job seeking skills and job search workshops), temporary or
trial employment, sheltered work environments and other related services
and activities. Planned services should assist the participant in
addressing specific barriers to employment and finding a job. These
activities may be provided by the applicant or by a Sub-grantee,
contractor or another source such as the local Workforce Investment Act
program or the DVOP personnel or LVERs. Such services are not mandatory
but entries should reflect the services described in the application and
the expected number of participants receiving or enrolled in such
services during each quarter. Participants may be recorded more than
once if they receive more than one service.

**[Employment Development Plan]{.underline}** (EDP) -- An individualized
written plan or intervention strategy for serving an individual which,
as a result of an assessment of the veteran's economic needs, vocational
interests, aptitudes, work history, etc., defines a reasonable
vocational or employment goal and the developmental services or steps
required to reach the goal and which documents the accomplishments made
by the individual.

**[Employment Service]{.underline}** -- the state level organization or
public labor exchange system affiliated with the Department of Labor's
United States Employment Service.

[Employment service delivery system]{.underline} -- A service delivery
system at which or through which labor exchange services, including
employment, training, and placement services are offered in accordance
with the Wagner-Peyser Act.

**[Enlistments]{.underline}** - Individuals who have expressed an
interest, signed up for a workshop or enrollment in the program.

**[Entered Employment]{.underline}** -- Enrolled eligible participants
who were placed in jobs or otherwise obtained employment as a result of
grantee services used or received. Grantees are allowed to report and
take credit for one (1) placement per enrolled eligible participant.

**[Entered Employment Rate]{.underline}** -- This is a method used to
determine the percentage of participants who become employed during the
grant award period. The percentage is calculated by dividing the total
number of participants who were enrolled in the program (including
carry-over participants from the previous grant award who were still
unemployed at the end of the grant period) by the number of participants
who were placed into jobs or otherwise obtained employment as a result
of grantee services used or received (also see carry-over registrants).

**[Enrolled Veteran]{.underline} -** Shall be synonymous with the term
participant - A veteran who has been determined eligible for services at
intake and who is receiving or scheduled to receive training services.

[**ETA 9002**]{.underline} -- Report reflects total services by Service
Delivery Point (SDP) State Merit Staff.

**[Faith-Based Organization]{.underline}** -- see "community-based
organization."

**[Follow-up]{.underline} -** The tracking of clients for a period of
time up to 180 days after initial placement into employment, last
referral date for services, or completion of training programs to
determine current status, outcome or whether to offer additional
services (such as additional referral, job retention advisement, etc.).

**[Full-Time Equivalent]{.underline}** (FTE) -- a personnel charge to
the grant equal to 2,080 hours per year.

**[FY]{.underline}** - Fiscal Year. For federal government purpose, any
twelve-month period beginning on October 1 and ending on September 30.

**[General Equivalency Diploma]{.underline}** (GED) -- A high school
equivalency diploma that is obtained by passing the General Educational
Diploma Equivalency Test that measures the application of skills and
knowledge generally associated with four (4) years of traditional high
school instruction.

**[Grant Officer's Technical Representative]{.underline}** (GOTR) - An
individual (usually the DVET) serving on behalf of the Grant Officer who
maintains and ensures the integrity of the approved grant agreement by
reviewing and making recommendations regarding technical matters not
involving a change in scope, cost, or conditions.

**[Homeless or homeless individual]{.underline}** -- includes persons
who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. It also
includes persons whose primary nighttime residence is either a
supervised public or private shelter designed to provide temporary
living accommodations; an institution that provides a temporary
residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or a private
place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping
accommodation for human beings. \[Reference 42 U.S.C., Section 11302
(a)\].

**[Indirect cost]{.underline}** - A cost that is incurred for a common
or joint purpose benefiting more than one cost objective and that is not
readily assignable to the cost objective specifically benefited. All
indirect costs are considered administrative costs for HVRP/VWIP
purposes, therefore, administrative costs including indirect costs shall
not exceed 20% of the total grant award.

**[In-kind Services]{.underline}** -- Property or services which benefit
a federally-assisted project or program and which are contributed
without charge to the grantee.

**[Institutional Skills Training]{.underline}** -- training conducted in
an institutional setting and designed to ensure that individuals acquire
the skills, knowledge, and abilities necessary to perform a job or group
of jobs in an occupation for which there is a demand.

**[Intake]{.underline}** -- A process for screening individual
applicants for program eligibility or making level of need
determinations; making an initial determination of what services or
program can best benefit the applicants; providing information about
services, program eligibility, and the availability of those services,
and the routing or selecting of individual applicants for particular
service delivery or program participation.

**[Intensive Services]{.underline}** - The provision of concentrated
staff services to clients who indicate the need for facilitation or
interventions to secure lasting employment. The case management approach
to service delivery is a viable model for successfully providing such
services and obtaining the clients goals.

**[Job Club Workshop/Activities]{.underline}** -- A form of job search
assistance provided in a group setting. Usually job clubs provide
instruction and assistance in completing job applications and developing
resumes and focus on maximizing employment opportunities in the labor
market and developing job leads. Many job clubs use telephone banks and
provide group support to participants before and after they interview
for job openings.

**[Job Development]{.underline}** - The process of marketing a program
participant to employers, including informing employers about what the
participant can do and soliciting a job interview for that individual
with the employer (targeted job development); and the development of one
or more job openings or training opportunities with one or more
employers using a variety of techniques and means of contact.

**[Job Placement Services]{.underline}** -- Job placement services are
geared towards placing participants in jobs and may involve activities
such as job search assistance, training, or job development. These
services are initiated to enhance and expedite participants' transition
from training to employment.

**[Job Search Assistance]{.underline}** - An activity, which focuses on
building practical skills and knowledge to identify and initiate
employer contact and conduct successful interview with employers.
Various approaches may be used to include participation in a job club,
receive instruction in identifying personal strengths and goals, resume
application preparation, learn interview techniques, and receive labor
market information. Job search assistance is often self-service activity
in which individuals obtain information about specific job openings or
general jobs or occupational information.

**[Labor Exchange -]{.underline}** Refers to the services provided to
job seekers and employers by the State Employment Services Agencies, or
other designated entities. Preparatory services to job seekers may
include assessment, testing, counseling, provision of labor market
information, targeted job development, resulting in job referral and
follow-up with former applicants and prospective employers.
Employer-oriented services may include accepting job orders, screening
applicants, referring qualified applicants and providing follow-up to
foster job retention and develop additional job openings or training
opportunities.

**[Labor Exchange Delivery System]{.underline}** (LEDS) - Describes the
system of matching jobs and training opportunities with applicants
operating with Federal employment and job training funds.

**[Labor Force -]{.underline}** The sum of all civilians classified as
employed and unemployed and members of the Armed Forces stationed in the
United States. \[Bureau of Labor Statistics Bulletin 2175\].

**[Labor Market Area]{.underline}** -- an economically-integrated
geographic area within which individuals can reside and find employment
within a reasonable distance or can readily change employment without
changing their place of residence.

**[Life Skills/Money Management Training]{.underline}** - Activities and
guidance provided to enrolled participants regarding the building of
life skills including personal financial management, work ethics,
development of supportive social networks, meal planning and
preparation, personal hygiene and grooming, etc.

**[Literacy and Bilingual Training]{.underline}** -- See Adult Basic
Education.

**[LVER]{.underline}** (Local Veterans' Employment Representative
Program) - A program of Federal assistance through grants to States to
staff and support an allocated position level, appointed full-time or
assigned half-time in accordance with 38 U.S.C. 4104 to perform a number
of duties, to include: outreach to employers; conducting seminars;
conducting job search workshops and job search groups; and facilitating
employment, training, and placement services.

**[Minimum Economic Need]{.underline}** -- the level of wages paid to a
program participant that will enable that participant to become
economically self-sufficient.

**[Minority Veterans]{.underline}** -- for the purposes of the HVRP and
VWIP programs, veterans who are Workforce Investment Act (WIA) eligible
and are members of the following ethnic categories: African American,
Hispanic, American Indian or Alaskan Native, Asian or Pacific Islander.

**[National Veterans' Training Institute]{.underline}** (NVTI) - An
agency contracted with USDOL/VETS to further develop and enhance the
professional skills of veterans\' employment and training service
providers throughout the United States.

###### [Newly Separated Veteran]{.underline} -- A veteran who has been released from active duty within the last 36 months. 

**[Number Referred to VA for Benefits]{.underline}** -- an unduplicated
count of the number of enrolled participants who were referred to the
Department of Veterans Affairs for services and benefit claims.

**[Number Retaining Job for 90 Days]{.underline}** -To be counted as
retaining a job for 90 days, continuous employment with one or more
employers for at least 90 days must be verified and the definition for
either direct placement or assisted placement into unsubsidized
employment above is met. This allows clients who have moved into a
position with a different employer to be recorded as retaining the job
for 90 days as long as the client has been steadily employed for that
length of time.

**[Number Retaining Job For 180 Days]{.underline}** - To be counted as
retaining a job for 180 days, continuous employment with one or more
employers for at least 180 days must be verified, and the definition for
either placement or assisted placement into unsubsidized employment
above is met. This allows clients who have moved into a position with a
different employer to be recorded as retaining the job for 180 days as
long as the client has been steadily employed for that length of time.

**[Occupational Skills Training]{.underline}** -- Includes both (1)
vocational education which is designed to provide individuals with the
technical skills and information required to perform a specific job or
group of jobs, and (2) on-the-job training.

**[Offender]{.underline}** -- Any adult or juvenile who has been subject
to any stage of the criminal justice process for whom services under
this program may be beneficial or who requires assistance in overcoming
artificial barriers to employment resulting from a record of arrest or
conviction.

**[On-the-Job Training]{.underline}** (OJT) -- means training by an
employer that is provided to a paid participant while engaged in
productive work in a job that: (a) provides knowledge or skill essential
to the full and adequate performance of the job; (b) provides
reimbursement to the employer of up to 50 percent of the wage rate of
the participant, for the extraordinary costs of providing the training
and additional supervision related to the participant is being trained,
taking into account the content of the training, the prior work
experience of the participant, and the service strategy of the
participant, as appropriate. Usually in the OJT agreement, there is a
promise on the part of the employer to hire the trainee upon successful
completion of the training.

**[On-Site Industry-Specific Training]{.underline}** -- This is training
which is specifically tailored to the needs of a particular employer
and/or industry. Participants may be trained according to specifications
developed by an employer for an occupation or group of occupations at a
job site. Such training is usually presented to a group of participants
in an environment or job site representative of the actual
job/occupation, and there is often an obligation on the part of the
employer to hire a certain number of participants who successfully
complete the training.

**[One-Stop/One Stop Service Delivery Point (SDP)]{.underline} -** A
location that connects employment, education, and training services into
a coherent network of resources at the local, state, and national level.

**[Order of Precedence]{.underline}** -- In the event of any
inconsistency between any provisions of the HVRP/VWIP grants, the
following order of precedence shall apply: 1) Special Provisions; 2)
General Provisions; 3) Applicable Solicitation for Grant Applications;
and 4) Grantee's Application for Federal Assistance.

**[Outreach]{.underline}** - An active effort by program staff to
encourage individuals in the designated service delivery area to avail
themselves of program services.

**[Outside Funds --]{.underline}** Resources pledged to the grant
program that have a quantified dollar value. Such resources may include
training funds from programs such as WIA Title I that are put aside for
the exclusive use by participants enrolled in a program. Outside funds
do not include in-kind services.

**[Participant]{.underline}** -- means an individual who has been
determined to be eligible to participate in and who is receiving
services (except follow-up services) under the program. Participation
shall be deemed to commence on the first day, following determination of
eligibility, on which the individual began receiving subsidized
employment, training, or other services provided under the program. An
individual who receives only outreach and/or intake assessment services
does not meet this definition.

**[Participants Enrolled]{.underline}** - A participant should be
recorded as having been enrolled when an intake form has been completed,
and services, referral, and/or employment has been received through the
program. This will be an [unduplicated count]{.underline} over the
performance period, i.e., each participant is recorded only once,
regardless of the number of times she or he receives assistance.

**[Participants Services]{.underline}** - This cost includes supportive,
training, or social rehabilitation services, which will assist in
stabilizing the participant. This category should reflect all costs
other than administrative.

**[Placed Into Transitional Or Permanent Housing]{.underline}** - A
placement into transitional or permanent housing should be recorded when
a veteran served by the program upgrades his/her housing situation
during the reporting period from shelter/streets to transitional housing
or permanent housing or from transitional housing to permanent housing.
Placements resulting from referrals by staff shall be counted. This item
is however an unduplicated count over the year, except that a
participant may be counted once upon entering transitional housing and
again upon obtaining permanent housing.

**[Placement into Employment]{.underline}** -- the act of securing
[un]{.underline}subsidized employment for or by a participant (also see
entered employment). Grantees are allowed to report and take credit for
one (1) placement (or entered employment) per enrolled eligible
participant.

**[Placement Rate -]{.underline}** This is a method used to determine
the percentage of participants who become employed. The figure is
calculated by dividing the number of total participants who were
registered for services and enrolled in the program by the number of
applicants or program participants who were placed into employment or
otherwise entered employment.

**[Pre-apprenticeship Training]{.underline}** -- Any training designed
to increase or upgrade specific academic, or cognitive, or physical
skills required as a prerequisite for entry into a specific trade or
occupation.

**[Pre-enrollment Assessment]{.underline}** -- The process of
determining the employability and training needs of individuals before
enrolling them into the program. Individual factors usually addressed
during pre-enrollment assessment include: an evaluation and/or
measurement of vocational interests and aptitudes, present abilities,
previous education and work experience, income requirements, and
personal circumstances.

**[Preference]{.underline}** - The application of priorities in the
consideration and selection through appointment or assignment of staff
to funded positions, or in the provision of direct services and order of
referral to listed openings in the order designated by statute
regulation, and grant agreement.

**[Priority of Service]{.underline}** -- With respect to any qualified
job-training program funded by the Department of Labor, that a covered
person shall be given priority over a non-veteran for the receipt of
employment, training, and placement services provided under that
program, not withstanding any other provision of law.

**[Program Resources]{.underline}** -- Includes the total of both
program or grant and outside funds.

**[Program Year]{.underline}** (PY) - The 12-month period beginning July
1 in the fiscal year for which the appropriation is made, and ending on
the following June 30.

[Qualified (for employment)]{.underline} - Having the ability to perform
the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable
accommodation for an individual with a disability.

[Qualified (for job training program)]{.underline} -- Any workforce
preparation, development, or delivery program or service that is
directly funded, in whole or in part, by the Department of Labor.

**[Rate of Placement Into Unsubsidized Employment]{.underline}** - The
rate of placement into unsubsidized employment is obtained by dividing
the number placed into unsubsidized employment, plus the number of
assisted placements into unsubsidized employment by the number of
clients enrolled.

**[Recently Separated Veteran]{.underline}** - Refers to an individual
who applies for program participation or assistance within 48 months of
separation from active U.S. military service \[29 U.S.C. 1503 (27)
(c)\].

**[Remedial Education]{.underline}** -- Education instruction,
particularly in basic skills, to raise an individual's general
competency level in order to succeed in vocational education or skill
training programs or employment.

**[Service Connected Disabled]{.underline}** - A veteran with a
service-connected disability rated by the Department of Veterans Affairs
at any level (0% to 100%).

**[Service Delivery Point (SDP)]{.underline}** - Includes offices of the
public employment delivery system operated directly or by contract with
the State Workforce Agency as grantee within a State and may include
One--Stop Career Centers, local employment service offices, and any
satellite or itinerant offices at which labor exchange services are
available.

**[Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA)]{.underline}** - A document
which provides the requirements and instructions for the submission by
eligible applicants identified in the document's text of requests for
Federal domestic assistance (funds) for one or more programs or
grants-in-aid.

**[Special Disabled Veteran]{.underline} -** (1) A veteran who is
entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired
pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the
Secretary for a disability rated at (a) 30 percent or more, or (b)
10--or 20 percent in the case of a veteran who has been determined under
section 3106 of this title to have a serious employment handicap; or (2)
a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a
service- connected disability.

**[Stand Down]{.underline}** -- is an event held in a local community
where a variety of social services are provided to homeless veterans.
Stand Down organizers partner with local businesses and social service
providers such as the State Workforce Agency including the Disabled
Veterans' Outreach Program (DVOP) and Local Veterans' Employment
Representative (LVER) staff, Department of Veterans' Affairs, Department
of Health and Human Services, Federal Emergency Management Agency
(emergency food and shelter grants), Veteran Service Organizations, and
local non-profit organizations including faith-based and community-based
organizations. The Director for Veterans' Employment and Training
Service (DVET) is a vital link to determining the needs of veterans
within his/her respective State. VETS encourages and supports local
Stand Down Events and may award up to \$8,000 per event per year. The
DVET is the primary point of contact for all Stand Down inquiries.

**[State]{.underline}** -- Each of several States of the United States,
the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam,
American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern
Marianas Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

**[State Workforce Agency (SWA)]{.underline}** - The State level
organization, as affiliated with the former United States Employment
Service.

**[Subgrant]{.underline}** -- An award of financial assistance in the
form of money, or property in lieu of money, made under a grant by a
grantee to an eligible subgrantee.

**[Subgrantee]{.underline}** -- The government or other legal entity to
which a subgrant is awarded and which is accountable to the grantee for
the use of the funds provided.

**[Suitable Employment]{.underline} --** See "Unsubsidized Employment."

**[Substance Abuser]{.underline}** -- An individual dependent on alcohol
or drugs, especially narcotics, whose dependency constitutes or results
in a substantial barrier to employment.

**[Supportive Services]{.underline}** -- means services which are
necessary to enable an individual eligible for training, but who cannot
afford to pay for such services, to participate in a training program
funded under the grant. Such supportive services may include
transportation, health care, financial assistance (except as a
post-termination service), drug and alcohol abuse counseling and
referral, individual and family counseling, special services and
materials for individuals with disabilities, job coaches, child care and
dependent care, temporary shelter, financial counseling, and other
reasonable expenses required for participation in the training program
and may be provided in-kind or through cash assistance.

**[Targeted Job Development]{.underline}** - The identification and
marketing of a group of qualified applicants with similar occupations or
employment barriers requiring personal visitation/phone contact with
those employers likely to employ these individuals.

**[Total Planned Expenditures -]{.underline}** Identified forecasted
financial needs to accomplish programmatic objectives broken down into
fiscal quarters.

**[Unpaid Work Experience]{.underline}** -- when an enrolled participant
performs specific duties on a voluntary basis (does not receive any
financial compensation) and gains specific work experience and/or
skills.

**[Unsubsidized Employment --]{.underline}** Employment not financed
from funds provided under the grant. In the grant program the term
"adequate" or "suitable" employment is also used to mean placement in
unsubsidized employment which pays an income adequate to accommodate the
participants' [minimum]{.underline} economic needs.

**[Upgrading or Retraining]{.underline}** -- Training given to an
individual who needs such training to advance above an entry-level or
dead-end position. This training shall include assisting enrolled
eligible veterans in acquiring needed state certification to be employed
in the same field as they were trained in the military (i.e., Commercial
Truck Driving License (CDL), Emergency Medical Technician (EMT),
Airframe & Power Plant (A&P), Teaching Certificate, etc.).

**[Veteran for HVRP and VWIP Purposes --]{.underline}** the term
"veteran" means a person who served in the United States active
military, naval, or air service, and who was discharged or released
there from under conditions other than dishonorable \[38 U.S.C 101
(2)\].

**[Veterans' Workforce Investment Program (VWIP)]{.underline}** --
Competitively awarded employment and training grants to meet the needs
of veterans with significant barriers to employment, with
service-connected disabilities, 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. The U.S. Department of
Labor's, Veterans' Employment and Training Service awards VWIP grants as
authorized under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), Section 168.

**[Vocational Exploration Training]{.underline}** -- Through assessments
such as interest inventories and/or counseling, a process of identifying
occupations or occupational areas in which a person may find
satisfaction and potential, and for which his or her aptitudes and other
qualifications may be appropriate.

**[Vocational Guidance]{.underline}** - The provision of information,
suggestions, and advice through discussion with individuals who are
considering a geographical or vocational choice or change, relating to
their career decision.

**[Wartime Veteran]{.underline}** - See "campaign veteran above."

**[Welfare and/or Public Assistance recipient]{.underline}** -- An
individual who, during the course of the program year, receives or is a
member of a family who receives cash welfare or public assistance
payments under a Federal, state, or local welfare program.

**[Workforce Investment Act]{.underline}** (WIA) -- The purpose of this
Act is to establish programs to prepare youth and unskilled adults for
entry into the labor force and to afford job training to those
economically disadvantaged individuals and other individuals, including
veterans, who face serious barriers to employment and who are in need of
such training to obtain prospective employment. The Act requires the
Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment and Training to consult
with the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs to ensure that
programs funded under VWIP of this Act meet the employment and training
needs of service-connected disabled, campaign, and recently separated
veterans and are coordinated, to the maximum extent feasible, with
related programs and activities.

**[Work Experience]{.underline}** -- A temporary activity (six months or
less) which provides an individual with the opportunity to acquire the
skills and knowledge necessary to perform a job, including appropriate
work habits and behaviors, and which may be combined with classroom or
other training. When wages are paid to a participant on work experience
and when such wages are wholly paid for under WIA, the participant [may
not]{.underline} receive this training under a private, for profit
employer.

**[Youth]{.underline}** -- An individual between 20 and 24 years of age.

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