This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) identifies for the public workforce system the refocused roles and responsibilities expected to be carried out by JVSG staff; conveys the duties they are to perform; and discusses the relationship of services provided by staff within the larger workforce system.

To announce the release and availability of a report, "Mentoring Youth and Young Parents: A Guidebook for Programs Helping Youth and Young Parents Navigate a Pathway to Self-Sufficiency."

To advise state workforce agencies of the completion of the MSDES project, which improves, streamlines, and automates UCX claims processing and billing for states and Federal military branches and to announce a webinar to provide an overview of the MSDES.

To invite state workforce agencies to submit proposals for a grant to continue or to implement a UI REA program, and to provide guidelines for FY 2014 UI REA grants.

To provide States and outlying areas with WIA Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities program allotments for PY 2014; final allotments for PY 2014 for the Wagner-Peyser ES Program, as required by section 6(b)(5) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended; and the Workforce Information Grants to States allotments for PY 2014.

To provide SCSEP grantees with information about the statutory exemption of SCSEP wages for purposes of determining income eligibility for Federal housing programs and/or SNAP.

To provide instructions for National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) employment and training grantees for preparing and submitting grant plans for Program Year (PY) 2014, and to convey the grant allocations for the program year.

To provide instructions for National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) housing grantees for preparing and submitting grant plans for Program Year (PY) 2014, and to convey the grant allocations for the program year.

To respond to questions from state workforce agencies and state workforce liaisons related to the October 2013 Federal government lapse in appropriations, or “shutdown,” and administrative funding for relevant programs pursuant to the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014 (Act).

To announce the 2014 UI Integrity Summit that will be held on May 13-14, 2014, in Washington, D.C.