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Areas of Discussion
Overview of Demographics and Trends
Overview of Florida’s Organizational Relationships
Identifying and Informing Covered Persons
Service Delivery
Florida’s Strategic Plan
Florida’s Partnerships
Monitoring Compliance with Priority of Service
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Demographics and Facts (2008 data)
Demographics:
1,715,114 veterans in Florida
213,642 Retirees and Survivors
Florida’s 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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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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Organizational Relationships
Contract
•Policy
•Performance Contracts
•Chartering
•Memorandums of Understanding
•Plan Approval
•Notice of Financial Award
•Budget Approval
•Program/Financial Monitoring
Jobs for Vets State Grant
•Funding Agreements
•Chartering
•Financial Monitoring
•Plan Approval
•Budget Approval
•Performance Oversight
•Performance Oversight
Workforce Services
Unemployment
Compensation
24 Regional
Workforce Boards
*One Stop Career Centers*
Early Learning
*Service Providers*
*Training Providers*
Early Learning
Coalitions
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Organizational relationships
Regional Workforces Boards’ Veterans Programs
Websites
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http://www.floridajobs.org/onestop/onestopdir/
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Identifying and Informing Covered Persons
Florida’s 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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Service Delivery
Florida uses the Employ Florida Marketplace (EFM) as the
employment service delivery system.
EFM’s 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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Service Delivery
Point of Service Entry using EFM,
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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Service Delivery
https://www.employflorida.com
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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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Service Delivery
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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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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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Service Delivery
Remember
Veterans’ Priority of
Service
is
EVERYONE’s
Responsibility
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Veteran Staff Responsibility
Veteran Staff “Proactive” activities Include;
1. 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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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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Veteran Staff Responsibility
The EFM registered Veteran characteristics include:
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Potential Eligibility for Veteran Benefits
Veteran Discharge Status
Veteran Status
Transitioning Service Members
Disabled Veteran Status
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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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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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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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Florida Partnerships
Some of the goals established in the Strategic Plan for
Serving Florida's Veterans Include:
Promoting the employment of veterans to Florida’s 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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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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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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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
And Discussion
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Contact Information
Shawn Forehand
State Veterans’ Program Coordinator
Phone:(850) 245- 7424 / Fax: (850) 921-3495
shawn.forehand@deo.myflorida.com
Paul Furbush
Asst. Veterans’ Program Coordinator
Phone:(850) 921-3867
paul.furbush@deo.myflorida.com
Resources;
DEO Veterans’ Workforce program Resources
http://www.floridajobs.org/workforce-board-resources/programresources/program-resources
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