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very year about 200,000 military service members transition from active duty to civilian life, with most of these valuable members of our communities experiencing !!!!! life changes. While some return to their "home of record," most will relocate to a new place of- fering meaningful employment or job-related education. During reintegration, each veteran and their loved ones face unique challenges and cir- cumstances. They need adapt- able, customized support in vital areas, such as navigating VA services, education, employ- ment, physical and emotional !!!! housing. In 2018, the VA issued a report, The Military to Civilian Transition: A Review of Histori- cal, Current, and Future Trends. More than 8,500 veterans, active-duty, National Guard and Reserve members and depen- !!!! challenges: Navigating VA programs, !!!! 60% Finding a job 55% Adjusting to civilian culture 41% "!! challenges 40% Applying military-learned skills to civilian life 39% A Pew Research Center survey published in September 2019 indicates that 26 percent of veteran respondents found transitioning to civilian life was !!!! That percentage jumped to 48 percent for veterans who served after 9/11. After years of high veteran unemployment, the tide ap- pears to be turning, at least for !!!"!#!!-! Statistics report in April 2022
The Journey Home
Transitioning to Civilian Life
By Kate Karniouchina, Maurice Wilson and Jim Wong
shows that veteran unemploy- ment was 4.4 percent in 2021, compared with 5.3 percent for nonveterans.Unemployment for both white and Black vet- erans was lower than for their nonveteran counterparts. The picture continues to brighten, with veteran unemployment at 3.7 percent in April 2022, compared with 3.9 percent for the country. Getting a job is just one challenge. Another challenge is keeping it or using it as a launchpad into a rewarding career. Pre-COVID-19 job attri- tion for veterans is alarming. Forty-three percent of veterans !!!!!! a year, and 80 percent before their second anniversary. Civilian recruiters are in- creasingly better at matching a veteran's former Military Oc- cupational Specialty (MOS) in job placement. However, MOS assignment is driven not only by a service member's Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) but also by the military's needs. In short, a veteran's former .04!!!!! passions or career aspirations. Is there a way to improve job retention? The National Veterans Tran- sition Services, Inc. (NVTSI), or REBOOT for short, a San %!!!! reintegration, is collaborating !!!! to develop and test Job-Set, a smart app providing veterans a chance to be matched with actual jobs they qualify for that !!!!! !!6!!! intelligence-based algorithm !!!!!!! based on 600+ attributes, Job- 4!!!!!! of millions of jobs by capitaliz- ing on O*NET, the Credentialing Opportunities On-Line (COOL) program and the National Labor Exchange. Currently in beta testing, Job-Set is free for veteran and military spouse job seekers. Reintegration delays cause problems. Homelessness, drug addiction, divorce and incar- ceration are symptoms of a disjointed support system for transitioning veterans. Today !!!! numerous federal, state and local government agencies offer support. Navigating through this huge network is both con- fusing and frustrating. To help navigate the transi- tion process, NVTSI recently transformed DoD's Manag- ing Your Transition Timeline manual into an app to help service members manage their transition as early as 24 months before their release. The app also connects users directly to participating local veteran service organizations for a warm hand-off. In its white paper After the Sea of Goodwill: A Collective Approach to Veteran Reinte- gration , published in October 2014, the Chairman Joint Chiefs !4!0!!3! stated: "Now is the time to create a national structure - character- ized by functional cooperation, cross-sector collaboration and an integrated network - to es- tablish a no-wrong-door capac- ity that allows our country to reintegrate effectively veterans and their families as a matter of course." With this in mind, NVTSI created a prototype Center for Military Veterans Reintegration (CMVR). Designed to be owned and staffed by the local commu- !!!$.73!!! Downey, Calif., in May 2022 as both a physical location and an electronic portal (Eco-Center) with easy access for veterans and their families in greater Los Angeles. The CMVR's purpose is to spur public-private partner- ships to streamline the journey home for veterans and ease the burden on loved ones.
Downey CMVR
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