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Transition
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Enhanced Service Site Launched for Veterans and Transitioning Service Members
Type of content: News
The U.S. Department of Labor's Veterans' Employment and Training Service has announced the launch of an updated website, veterans.gov. The website will bring together job banks, state employment offices, American Job Centers, opportunities in industry, and employer assistance.
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- Employment
- Transition
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With Non-profits, It’s Impact – Not Overhead – that Matters Most
Type of content: News
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- Collaboration
- Employment
- Transition
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NAVSO News (April 2016 Edition)
Type of content: News
TRANSITION INTELLIGENCE DASHBOARD IS LIVE!
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- Collaboration
- DoD
- Employment
- Transition
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After The Battle, The Harvest: Programs Help Vets Move Into Farming
Type of content: News
Tor Peery grew up in a farming community in upstate New York, baling hay in the summers. He never thought he'd want to go back to that life.
Three deployments with the U.S. Marine Corps — including a tough tour in Helmand, Afghanistan — changed his mind.
"So many years I've been in the world of destruction," he says. "Being infantry and in the Marine Corps, I've destroyed so many things. I just want to create now."
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- Employment
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Study: Families experience generally few long-term effects from deployment
Type of content: News
On balance, most military families bounce back from deployments, according to findings of the first comprehensive study of military families over the deployment cycle.
But there are some notable exceptions, such as some emotional problems for children, and some adjustment problems reported by teens.
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- DoD
- Family
- Mental Health
- Transition
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Instead of a parade, Glendale honored its veterans with affordable housing
Type of content: News
After living on the streets and, more recently, in a friend's garage, Army veteran and single father Joseph Garcia finally has a permanent roof over his head in a new low-income housing complex for returning soldiers in Glendale.
Veterans Village, a 44-unit, affordable-housing development for veterans and their families, formally opened Tuesday amid a larger debate across Los Angeles County about how to end homelessness.
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NAVSO News (March 2016 Edition)
Type of content: News
Snapshot: CEO presents at LAVC and ResCare annual meeting, NAVSO featured as EveryAction's Hero, NAVSO Director Bill Ahmanson earns 2015 leadership award, 4-part webinar series on veteran employment and NAVSO welcomes new advisory board members
CEO Speaks in L.A. and St. Louis
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Report Finds Sharp Increase in Veterans Denied V.A. Benefits
Type of content: News
Joshua Bunn was a rifleman in one of the bloodiest valleys in Afghanistan, where his infantry unit killed hundreds of enemy fighters and lost more comrades than any other battalion in the Marine Corps in 2009.
“We were so far out in Taliban country we rarely got resupply,” Mr. Bunn, 27, said in an interview from his apartment in Jonesboro, Ark. “We just got rockets and small-arms fire every day.”
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- Benefits
- Legislation
- Mental Health
- Transition
- VA
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Team RWB helps veterans forge connections with their communities
Type of content: News
Mike Erwin was fresh off a deployment to Afghanistan when he left Fort Bragg in 2009 to attend graduate school in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The next summer Erwin founded an organization that he hoped would help tie veterans to where they live and, in the process, provide a network of support centered on physical activity.
That organization - Team Red, White & Blue, or Team RWB for short - has far outpaced Erwin's expectations.
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Male veterans face declining wealth and work prospects
Type of content: News
In “Declining Wealth and Work Among Male Veterans in the Health and Retirement Study,” Alan L. Gustman,Thomas L. Steinmeier and Nahid Tabatabai present new evidence on how the relative financial status of veterans and nonveterans approaching traditional retirement age has varied over the last two decades. Using data on four cohorts of respondents in the Health and Retirement Study, they compared the wealth and employment status of veterans and nonveterans.
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