The proposed program will assist veterans transitioning from incarcertion or an institution that provides long-term care for mental illness, and veterans recently released from incaceration, in…

The proposed program will assist veterans transitioning from incarcertion or an institution that provides long-term care for mental illness, and veterans recently released from incaceration, in obtaining high-quality career outcomes that will support economic prosperity, address historical inequities and provide equitable access and outcomes for the veterans served. Ivtp activities include persistent outreach, in-reach, recruitment and engagement efforts built on the success of the past years of work from a trauma-informed and community-based participatory approach (cbpa) to ensure that we are not only reaching ivtp eligible participants, but that we are also reaching historically marginalized communities such as black, latino and indigenous native american persons. We will conduct intake and assessment via in-person, virtual and hybrid models to remove barriers to participation. We will conduct employment and job training services to assist participants in obtaing and retaing high-qualtiy career outcomes in high-demand industries. Focused outreach richmond will conductemployer engagement to develop and maintain strong relatonships with employers, and continue expansion of a diverse range of partners, and cultivate successful linkages to leverage resources to address the complex barriers of justice-involved veterans. We will conduct follow-up case management services for 12 months post exit from the program. The proposed program from focused outreach richmond (for) will serve category 3 (ivtp), incarcerated veterans, in the urban metropolitan statistical area of richmond, virginia andadjacent counties. All LIE within the greater richmond continuum of care (VA-500) and the balance of state continuum of care (VA-521). We will additionally serve incarcerated veterans within the greater virginia peninsula COC (VA-505), which includes williamsburg, newport news, hampton, poquoson and the counties of james city and york. These areas include tribal lands for the following federally recognized tribes: chickahominy, chickahominy eastern, pamunkey, mattaponi, upper mattaponi, rappahannock and nansemond tribal nations. Focused outreach richmond will enroll 120 participants annually and 360 participants over the 3-year period of performance. We expect a placement rate for all exiters of 50 with an average hourly wage at placement of 17.50. The cost per placement will be 7,327.00. We anticipate 30 of participants will be in unsubsidized employment 2ND quarter after exit, 20 of participants will be in unsubsidized employment 4TH quarter after exit, and the median earnings of participants in unsubsidized employment 2ND quarter after exit will be 5,500.00. Of total enrollment, we expect 10 to be chronically homeless. 80 of participants will receive training. Greater richmond continuum of care VET work group (chaired by for) and VET-link homeward virginia supportive housing including ssvf program caritas liberation family services GPD program home again transitional shelter hand-up tip GPD program safehaven GPD program hunter holmes mcguire veterans administration including HUD-vash, justice programming, medical center virginia department of veteran services daily planet community healthcare center commonwealth catholic charities salvation army department of social services virginia employment commission virginia workforce center , goodwill industries department of aging and rehabilitative services community college workforce alliance virginia values veterans (V3) department of corrections richmond behavioral health authority virginia association of regional jails auxiliary veteranorganizations (VFW, wounded warrior, DAV, etc) greater richmond workforce coalitoin NEWWORK2WORK virginia association of recovery residences