How To Help Unemployed Veterans

For servicemen and women returning home, finding a place in the civilian world can be difficult.

Many veterans are coping with physical injuries, struggling with PTSD and affected by other disabilities sustained during their service.

Because of these and other factors, men and women who have served their country so bravely find themselves unemployed, even homeless. Nationally, an estimated 107,000 veterans find themselves without a home each night.

According to The Washington Post, unemployment among young veterans hit a high of 21 percent earlier this year.

How To Help:

• Hire Heroes USA offers veterans job training and job placement help. Fans of the organization can support it by making a donation or volunteering.


• Wall Street Warfighters Foundation helps train veterans for jobs in financial industries. Supporters can make a donation to the organization or volunteer to help veterans learning the ropes on Wall Street.


• Merging a desire to help veterans with an investment in the environment, Veterans Green Jobs trains former servicemen and women to work in renewable energy, environmental conservation and other eco-friendly fields. Donors can make an online contribution to help further the organization's mission.

Comments

[Said One]

10:08 AM on 11/27/2010

Also veterans are encouraged to join the Oracle's Injured Veteran Job and Training Program Oracle is proud to offer the Injured Veteran Job and Training Program. Developed in partnership with the Coalition to Salute America's Heroes, the program is specifically designed for women and men injured in the Afghanistan and Iraqi Wars. It incorporates functional training to help in their transition to civilian employment. Our goal is to provide injured veterans with employment experience that may lead to regular employment. HOW TO JOIN Participants are eligible to work in any entry- to mid-level role at any Oracle facility. They can select on-the-job training across the fields of IT, technical/systems consulting, technical support, finance, human resources, and sales/marketing. Or they may choose developmental training in DBA and Oracle Financials. http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/citizenship/038260.htm

[buckfushlv]

12:40 PM on 11/25/2010

right,left middle please watch this you tube video titled Remember Me and pass it on it has had over 4,000,000 hits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ervaMPt4Ha0

Thank You

Viet Vet 65---69 NYPD 70-- 92

[eilish]

04:18 AM on 11/27/2010

No. Thank YOU.

[Diver992]

03:40 AM on 11/24/2010

Some excellent and helpful posts here concerning this topic. As a veteran, I thank you.

[justjim]

05:00 PM on 11/23/2010

I'm a consultant to the non-profit JVS-LA www.jvsla.org in Los Angeles that received a grant to help veterans recently returned from Afghanistan and Iraq with finding jobs. Called Veterans First, JVS-LA offers free career coaching, assessments to help identify transferable skills, and job placement.

For nearly 80 years, JVS has enhanced hundreds of thousands of lives with vital employment and career services. Each year, JVS helps nearly 30,000 people from over 30 sites around Southern California. A non-profit, non-sectarian organization, JVS works with city, state and county agencies to ensure everyone has access to the help they need, including long term unemployed, at-risk students, and people with disabilities.

[LogMaster]

01:22 PM on 11/23/2010

As paradoxical as it may seem, I have spoken with many Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who were recently released from active duty, and were doing everything in their power to get BACK to Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of them feel they need to get back over there as quickly as possible to support the brothers and sisters they left behind - but this time as a civilian working on the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP). It may seem odd to some, but getting back to a military atmosphere where they are surrounded by familiar sights and sounds substantially eases their anxiety and actually has a calming effect on their nerves, as they can gradually reintegrate back into the civilian world without having to completely give up the military life they have come to know, and go “cold turkey”. I am Bruce Diggs, the founder and owner of the website www.LogCap4Jobs.com and I have been personally responsible for assisting many of our brave and loyal vets in successfully rotating out of the military and getting back to the logistic hub’s and FOB's they just left where so many of their brothers and sisters in arms remain. As a former LOGCAP contractor, I have personally witnessed the look of pride, satisfaction, and relief on their faces when they got back to Afghanistan and Iraq, and actually met-up with their units that were still there. It is truly an amazing reunion, and humbling to witness.

[jo smith456]

07:37 AM on 11/23/2010

Help the unemployed, regardless if they are veterans or not.

[AZAFVET]

11:58 AM on 11/24/2010

Chances are the vet gave up a job when he/she went active duty therefore they should receive extra help. Besides that, because the SERVED their country they should get preference.

[Emily Alexander]

04:06 AM on 11/23/2010

Help veterans and all those who have served our country so well find jobs today! Please spread the word. Take 2 minutes and click on our page and use the "Suggest to Friends" button on the left to invite all your friends to help veterans find jobs! www.facebook.com/chooseveterans, and www.chooseveterans.com

[oopsie]

11:19 PM on 11/22/2010

Three other places to know about to help veterans:
www.Remind.org specializes in brain injuries caused by war. It is Bob Woodruff's foundation
www.studentveterans.org is the Student Veterans of America. They have set up support groups at colleges and universities around they country to help vets on the GI bill.
www.pitoninc.org Piton Inc supports veterans making the transition from military to civilian careers. It provides webinars and resume reviews and helps businesses, colleges and organizations that wish to hire or train veterans.

They could all use your support!

[Kathleen Riley-Daniels]

10:47 PM on 11/22/2010

Thanks for providing this information for helping veterans.