# Presentation: 154743

## Mainstream & Targeted Programs 
for Homeless Assistance

- for Homeless Assistance

## Department of Labor – Putting America to Work

**“****Getting people back to work is what this Department does.  Giving people hope in their future is our job.”**
**  **
- Department of Labor services are crucial components of any plan seeking to address the cycle of homelessness
- DOL offers a variety of employment related programs – both mainstream and targeted -- that can help in preventing homelessness and provide workforce assistance to individuals who are homeless

- Secretary of Labor, Elaine Chao

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## Eliminating Chronic Homelessness

- National Strategy Themes
- Continued development of collaborative initiatives
- Prevention
- Intervention
- Research
- Innovative, performance-based solutions
- Accessing available mainstream resources

## Programs and Services

- Mainstream
- Workforce Investment System/One-stop Career Centers

## Programs and Services

- Targeted
- Job Corps Foster Care Initiative
- Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Project
- Incarcerated Veterans Transition Program
- Veterans Workforce Investment Program
- Serious and Violent Offenders Re-entry Program
- Ending Chronic Homelessness Through Employment & Housing
- Ready 4 Work

## Workforce Investment Act

- Workforce Investment Act of 1998
- Consolidated numerous training and employment programs
- Implemented July 2000
- Mandates creation of One-Stop Career Centers to provide job seekers and employers local access to national services
- Customers can connect to Federal, State, and local programs for job training, employment, labor market information, and supportive services
- Coordinated services are available to all customers, including homeless persons

## WIA Key Principles 

- Streamlining Services
- Empowering Individuals
- Universal Access
- Increased Accountability
- Strong Role for Local Boards & Private Sector
- State and Local Flexibility
- Improved Youth Programs

## One-Stop Governance

- Business-led State and local Workforce Investment Boards oversee delivery system
- The Governor with the State WIB designates local workforce investment areas and determines local funding allocations
- The local WIB charters at least one comprehensive (all partners represented) One-Stop Career Center in its service area

## Mandatory One-Stop Partners 

- Adult, Dislocated Worker & Youth Activities
- Employment Service
- Adult Education
- Post-Secondary Vocational Education
- Vocational Rehabilitation
- Welfare-to-Work
- Title V of the Older Americans Act
- Trade Adjustment Assistance

- Veterans Employment and Training Programs
- Community Services Block Grant
- HUD Employment and Training Activities
- Unemployment Insurance
- Apprenticeship
- Job Corps

## One-Stop Service Options

- Self Service
- Internet – electronic tools
- Self-Service in Center – resource room
- Core Services
- Eligibility Determination
- Initial Assessment
- Job Search
- Resume Writing
- Interviewing Skills
- Labor Market Information

- Intensive Services
- Comprehensive Assessments
- Individual Employment Plans
- Job Clubs
- Case Management
- Prevocational Services
- Training Services
- Individual Training Accounts
- On-the-Job Training
- Customized Training

## Particularities of One-Stop System

- Different entities can be operators
- Post secondary education institutions, ES agency, non-profits, government agency, for-profits
- Satellite and comprehensive One-Stops
- Mandatory and non-mandatory partners
- Many partner programs not entitlement programs – funds can be exhausted
- -> Result – no two One-Stops are alike

## Employment Service

- Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933
- Set up the public labor exchange system
- As amended by WIA – can fund:
- Labor Market Information
- Infrastructure
- Computers
- Electronic Tools
- Core services
- Job referral
- Job search clubs
- Assessments

## Electronic Tools/Toll-free Help Line

- www.CareerOneStop.org -- portal website
- America’s Job Bank
- America’s Career InfoNet
- America’s Service Locator (www.servicelocator.org)
- Find One-Stops, Job Corps Centers, etc., by zip code
- Workforce Tools of the Trade
- O*NET OnLine
- www.careeronestopcoach.org
- Toll free helpline: 1-877-348-0502

## Adults & Dislocated Workersand Trade Adjustment Assistance

- Adults & Dislocated Workers
- Intensive & Training Services
- Trade Adjustment Assistance
- Benefits for workers dislocated by increased imports to the United States
- Training
- Income support while in training
- Job search allowances
- Relocation allowances

## Youth Programs/Activities

- Tutoring and Study Skills Training
- Alternative Secondary School Services
- Summer Employment Opportunities
- Paid and Unpaid Work Experiences
- Internships and Job Shadowing
- Leadership Development Opportunities
- Supportive Services
- Adult Mentoring
- Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling

## Some Funding Information

- ES & WIA Title I funds allocated to States on formula basis; States allocate to local areas
- WIA Title I: 3 funding streams
- Adults
- Youth
- Dislocated Workers

## WIA Title I Funding

- Adults/Youth monies
- 85% to local areas
- 15% for statewide activities
- Dislocated Workers
- 20% reserved for Secretary of Labor
- of remainder
- 60% to local areas
- 25% for statewide rapid response
- 15% for statewide activities
- Statewide 15% amounts may be merged to increase services to adults, youth, or dislocated workers

## Job Corps 

- Residential education and training program for disadvantaged youth
- Provides full-time, year-round comprehensive academic and vocational training and support services
- Eligibility:
- between 16 - 24 years old
- economically disadvantaged

## Job Corps Homeless and Foster Care Youth Initiative

- Homeless and Foster Care Youth have always been part of the eligible population for Job Corps.  In July 2002, the National Office of Job Corps began to explore ways in which the Job Corps system could improve access for this important population, through:
- Improved tracking
- Targeted outreach and admissions effort
- Strengthening the direct referral system

## Veterans’ Employment and Training  

- Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program (DVOP) specialists
- develop job and training opportunities for veterans with service-connected disabilities
- Local Veterans' Employment Representatives (LVERs)
- provision of employment services to veterans
- monitor job listings for veterans’ priority of service referrals
- federal contracting jobs
- federal department and agency vacancies
- with VA, aid veterans needing work-specific aids improve their employability
- community outreach to ensure eligible veterans get services to which they are entitled

## Veterans’ Workforce Investment Program

- Competitive and Discretionary Grants
- Awarded to State Governors
- Two-Year funding let in even years
- Priority Consideration
- Unique and innovative occupational training or research that leads to the employment of targeted groups of eligible veterans

- P.L. 105-220, Workforce Investment Act

## Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program (HVRP)

- Purpose
- Stimulate the development of effective service delivery systems to assist homeless veterans in obtaining and retaining meaningful employment
- Enhance veterans’ employment opportunities by linking employment services with veteran-focused services, programs and organizations

- P.L. 107-95, Title 38, Ch 20, Sect. 2021

## HVRP Program Design

- Competitive Grants
- Awarded annually
- Three competitions: urban, non-urban, new grantees
- Measured Performance Outcomes
- Number of homeless veterans enrolled
- Percentage of enrolled who enter employment
- 6 month employment retention
- Wage at placement

## Incarcerated Veterans Transition Program

- Discretionary Grants and Pilots
- Targets veterans previously incarcerated and near-release, to reduce unemployment, recidivism and homelessness
- Six demonstration projects
- Partnership with DVA for referral and counseling services
- Provide assistance 18 months prior to release
- Create a comprehensive support matrix among partnering agencies

- Collaboration

- Elimination

- Prevention

- Intervention

- Mainstream

- Innovation

- Research

- Homeless Veterans Comprehensive Assistance Act of 2001, Sec. 2020

## Office of Disability Employment Policy

- ODEP Initiatives
- Research, Development, & Economic Analysis of Policy
- Promotion of Effective Practices
- Innovative Grants, Contracts, & Collaborative Agreements
- National Centers on Workforce and Disability (Adults/Youth)
- JAN Job Accommodation Network
- EARN – Employee Assistance Referral Network

**Collaboration**

- Elimination

**Prevention**

**Intervention**

- Mainstream

**Innovation**

**Research**

- Established December, 2000

## Ready 4 Work -- CFBCI

- A Business, Faith, Community and Criminal Justice Partnership
- To employ and retain job-ready ex-offenders
- To reduce recidivism
- Leverage community resources to provide long-term care / mentoring
- Capture and share best practices concerning community partnerships

**Collaboration**

- Elimination

**Prevention**

**Intervention**

- Mainstream

**Innovation**

**Research**

## Ready 4 Work Program Chart

- FBO/CBO
- Mentoring
- Job Training
- Skill Development
- Support Services

**Criminal Justice**
- (Offender Referral)
- Correctional Institutions
- Corrections Officials
- Probation
- Parole
- Chaplains
- Community Supervision

**Businesses**
- (Occupational Groups)
- Culinary Skills
- Skilled Professionals
- Administrative/Clerical
- Laborer/Gen. Services
- Juvenile Employment
- Contracting

## Learn About One-Stop System

- Learn about the system at: http://www.doleta.gov/usworkforce/
- WIA background information
- State resources
- Reauthorization information
- List serve for news & funding updates
- Access to advisories & memorandums
- Performance information
- And much more!!!

## Linking to One-Stop system

- Partner with One-Stop Career Center system and within your State and local areas
- Locate your State & local “WIBs” at http://www.nawb.org/asp/wibdir.asp
- Locate your local One-Stops at:
- www.servicelocator.org
- 1-877-US2-JOBS

## Recap of Some Helpful Websites

- http://www.dol.gov
- http://www.dol.gov/elaws/evets.htm
- http://www.doleta.gov
- http://www.doleta.gov/usworkforce/
- http://www.dol.gov/odep/
- http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/
- http://www.dol.gov/cfbci/

## Increase Access to Mainstream Resources

- Increase Access to the Workforce Investment System
- Principle of universal access
- Satellite One-Stop for the homeless
- Include strategy in State or local plans
- WIA performance measures
- Ending chronic homelessness through employment and housing grants

## Develop a Comprehensive Statewide Homelessness Prevention Strategy

- Foster care youth
- Veterans
- Discharge strategy
- Re-entry from prison
- Re-entry from treatment

## Foster Care Youth

- What does the state do for young people aging out of the foster care system?
- Job corps foster care youth initiative

## Discharge Strategies

- How does the state prepare individuals making transitions from institutions back into society?
- Re-entry from prison
- Ready 4 Work
- Serious and Violent Offender Re-entry Initiative
- Incarcerated Veterans Transition Program

## Veterans

- DVOPs and LVERS
- Veterans’ Workforce Investment Program
- INTERVENTION
- WIA
- Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program