good morning everybody my name is John
Savage I am presenting the briefing this
morning I'm with the US Department of
Labor veterans employment training
service and we're gonna be talking about
our mission briefly and then we're going
to talk about the main topic which is
prior to service but a little bit about
myself
retired Army guy and then started out
with the state of Ohio as an LPR and so
I worked under naejay see a small Center
probably twelve of us kind of worked my
way up area manager policy person for
the workforce development section in the
state of Ohio and then in 2003 I took
over as the state veterans coordinator
so I ran the veterans program for the
state of Ohio did that for four years
before I went over to the federal side
worked in the Chicago regional office
handling competitive grants which is
homeless veterans reintegration program
some other training grants hi and then
became the director for the state of
Michigan so I was a state director for
the veteran's employment training
service came down here in 2013 as the
deputy Regional Administrator over the
eight southeastern states and so now I
am the Regional Administrator over the
same states but I work less so my my
deputy which is what I used to do does a
lot of work as well so just a little bit
about vets let me take a little poll how
many people have heard of Department of
Labor I got that employment training
administration ETA got it
vets okay couple couple so what we do
I'm gonna explain what we do here in a
minute but there are about a hundred and
seventy nine of us outside of DC we have
about 27 people in our region right now
so there's 27 people doing all of this
work in in the eight states and
southeast so
just like you we stay busy I'd like to
thank Mark for reaching out and
arranging this we invest had a briefing
for state senior leaders in March Jo Dan
banker was one of the folks that came
down and we talked about priority
service
then he was very interested and it was
good timing because he knew this
conference was coming up so Joe and Mark
asked me to come and present so that's
kind of why I'm here and I'm glad you
all are here to learn more about this
because prior to service is it used to
be pretty straightforward but then with
the passage of WI o a it it became much
more clouded because