§ 8-83-218 — Core services

Colorado § 8-83-218

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 08: Labor and
• Art.: Workforce Development

Text

(1) The work force investment program, as
implemented through one-stop career centers, shall provide a core set of services,
as defined by the federal act, to individuals who are adults or dislocated workers,
including, at a minimum, access for job seekers to a comprehensive array of
services and information, which may include:

(a) Registration into the centralized computer system;

(b) Career center operations;

(c) Education and training program information;

(d) A multimedia resource library providing access to internet-based
services;

(e) Labor market information;

(f) Skill assessment services that are designed to determine each
participant's employability, aptitudes, abilities, and interests, by means of individual
interviews whenever possible;

(g) Job referral and placement;

(h) Self-help resume preparation resources;

(i) Referral services for community and social services, including welfare-to-work programs, employment programs for persons with disabilities, employment
programs for older workers, community-based organizations, vocational
rehabilitation, adult literacy, supportive services, and youth programs and services;

(j) Veterans' benefits and services information, subject to the availability of
Wagner-Peyser funds and to the following:

(I) Any one-stop career center receiving Wagner-Peyser funds or housing
Wagner-Peyser Act staff shall provide veterans with priority employment and
training services in accordance with chapter 41 of title 38, U.S.C.;

(II) In one-stop career centers that have been assigned disabled veteran
outreach program and local veteran employment representative positions, such
positions must be held by state employees and are in addition to, and do not
supplant, Wagner-Peyser staff in providing priority employment and training
services; and

(III) All one-stop career centers shall make the full array of core services
available to veterans in the following order of priority: Disabled veterans, Vietnam-era veterans, veterans, and other eligible persons.

(2) Work force boards are encouraged to consider and determine, at a
minimum, the feasibility of providing access for employers to a comprehensive
array of services and information, which may include:

(a) Professional account representatives and management;

(b) Assistance in individual and mass recruiting;

(c) Referrals of skilled applicants;

(d) Labor market information;

(e) Education and training program information;

(f) Access to internet-based services;

(g) Information and referral for community and social services;

(h) Layoff assistance; and

(i) Other employment-related services and information.

(3) At the option of the local elected officials, other services for job seekers
and employers may be offered to meet the needs of a work force development area.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2012: Entire article added with relocations, (HB 12-1120), ch. 27, p. 98, � 6, effective June 1. L. 2016: (3) amended, (HB 16-1302), ch. 183, p. 644, � 22, effective May 19.