Military Employment Programs

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Military Employment Programs
Department of Defense
Leslye Arsht Gary Woods Military Community
Family Policy Office October 14, 2005
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Department of Defense

• Military Severely Injured Center Employment
  Initiatives
• Military Spouse Employment Program
• Transition Assistance Program

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Military Severely Injured Center

• Grand Opening 1Feb 05
• Purpose 24/7 hub for information, referral and
  tracking
• Central resource for DS3, M4L, Palace HART, and
  Navy
• Case management system
• Advocacy hospitalization, employment, education,
  retraining, rehabilitation, discharge, family
  support, CONUS air travel (TSA)
• Service Reps Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air
  Force, and Coast Guard
• Primary Liaison between Center and Service
  program
• Work Service-specific issues
• Caseworker staff
• Care managers and Counselor advocates (RNs or
  Masters-Level Social Workers with disability
  experience)
• Provide Military OneSource experience,
  professionalism and expertise
• Federal Agency Partners include DOL, VA, TSA
  assigned to the Center

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Severely Injured Employment

• Employment covers 2 of 9 Working Groups at the
  MSI Center
• Employment Working Group includes representatives
  of the Services, VA, DOL, WRAMC
• Goal Recruit public and private employers and
  place severely injured Service members (and their
  caregivers)in appropriate education, training and
  careers. 
• Recently augmented the permanent employment
  services with Operation Warfighter - that
  provides temporary placement in Federal agencies
  for service members in Medical Hold.
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Severely Injured Employment

• MSICenter employment staff includes 3 DoL/
  Realifelines employment experts and 1 VA detailee
  
• Coordinating with One-Stop Centers and state
  DoL-Vets
• 1234 SM w/active issues
• 151 have been identified as having employment
  needs
• 44 are currently being assisted
• (9 of those are Mothers/fathers/spouses)
• 36 have been employed
• 76 chose education, remained on AD, turned out
  to be not ready, etc

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Severely Injured Employment

• To support direct services
• Military.com provides military.com/support
  website with Corporate and government jobs
• 40 go to employers have committed to be
  responsive to candidates, including specific
  locations
• Federal government and corporate career
  networking fairs have been held at WRAMC and at
  Ft. Sam Houston
• Fairs are being planned at Ft. Hood and FT. Bragg
  in Dec.
• Other fairs will be held in 06

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Military Severely Injured Center24-7 Family
Support1-888-774-1361Call Anytime!
Bottomline Centers role is to expedite
processes, help families, and alleviate
complicated road blocks for severely
injured. Center cannot fix all processes and
problems but can be advocates for the severely
injured.
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Spouse Employment

• Remove Barriers to advancement
• State Liaison Office is advocating for national
  passport certifications - teaching and real
  estate present initial opportunities
• Build relationships with corporate partners who
  provide portable skills e.g. computer
  technicians/Cisco etc.

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Severely Injured Employment

• 2. Raise awareness around benefits of spouse
  employee pool
• Established new web portal Military Spouse
  Career Center www.military.com/spouse
• Launched April 4, 2005 provides a unified site,
  easy to navigate
• Connects and highlights spouse programs in the
  services and at installations

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Severely Injured Employment

• Expands Opportunity for Military Spouses
• By joining with the power of Monster, Inc and
  its military.com division that already had
  200,000 military spouses signed up and
• linking them to BOTH Corporate America and
  Government jobs (USAJobs)
• Some statistics from the new site
• 60 Military spouse-friendly companies have
  signed-up
• Since April there over 1 million job searches
  have been conducted and September attracted over
  93,000 unique visitors. Each month more unique
  visitors have used the site
• posted over 310,000 job applications in August
• an average of 10,000 are posting views to the
  discussion boards monthly and
• over 409,000 page views in the discussion boards

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Severely Injured Employment

• Three important new features are being added next
  week
• Spouses will be able to search jobs by
  installation without knowing the names of nearby
  towns/suburbs
• Employers will be able to post to this database
  without posting to Monster (at no cost)
• Employers will be able to conduct spouse-only
  searches through the Career Center database (even
  if they are regular Monster customers).

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Employment Points of Contact

• Leslye Arsht Severely Injured Spouses
• Tel [phone] Email Leslye.Arsht_at_osd.mil
• Patrick Brick Operation Warfighter Program
• Tel [phone] Email Patrick.Brick.ctr_at_osd.
  mil
• Mark Smith Federal Agency Recruitment
• Tel [phone] Email Mark.Smith_at_cpms.osd.mi
  l
• Gary Woods Transition Assistance Program
• Tel [phone] ext.161 Email
  Gary.Woods_at_osd.mil