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U.S. Department of Labor
Program Highlights
Veterans' Employment and Training Service |
National Veterans' Training Institute
The U.S. Department of Labor, through the Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Veterans' Employment and Training (OASVET), established the
National Veterans' Training Institute in 1986 to provide specialized training
and professional skills enhancement of State Employment Security Agency and
other veterans' service providers' staff.
To perform most effectively, veterans' services specialists require
specialized training; and State Employment Security Agencies' local job service
office and other program management staff need more generalized training. The
NVTI strives to meet both needs.
The NVTI basic training focuses on improving employment services for
veterans through a professional skills-development program. About 70 percent of
participants are Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program specialists and Local
Veterans' Employment Representatives; the remaining participants are state
employees and administrative staff, Federal employees and others involved with
veterans' employment and training issues.
The NVTI training curriculum is designed to ensure that participants are
trained in competencies that meet customers' needs. In addition to the basic
employment and training professional-skills course, training is offered in
veterans' benefits, transition assistance, case management, marketing and
accessing the media, and management of veterans' services. NVTI also offers
courses in veterans' reemployment rights case investigation and grants
management, to address the training needs of the U.S. Department of Labor
Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS) staff.
The University of Colorado at Denver operates the NVTI under a
competitively-awarded contract with VETS. Classes are delivered in a variety of
modes, including residential weeks in Denver and selected locations around the
country, and via distance learning approaches. NVTI courses are accredited by
the North Central Association of Colleges and Universities; satisfactory course
completion can earn participants two hours of academic credit per average
five-day course.
NVTI's administrative office in Denver houses the Resource and Technical
Assistance Center (RTAC), a repository for a variety of materials and
information resources on veterans' issues and services that offers on-going
support for individuals who have completed NVTI training.
For more information about the NVTI, contact the Veterans' Employment
and Training Service representative nearest you, listed in the phone book under
U.S. Government, U.S. Labor Department or visit:
http://www.dol.gov/vets/aboutvets/contacts/main.htm
This is one of a series of fact sheets highlighting U.S. Department of
Labor programs.
It is intended as a general description only and does not carry the
force of legal opinion.
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