# Presentation: 403854

## Military Employment Programs

***Leslye Arsht & Gary Woods***
***Military Community & Family Policy Office***
***October 14,****** ******2005***

**Department of Defense**

**Notes:**

 I’m sorry John Molino couldn’t be with you today.  
 I’m George Schaefer, Chief of the DoD State Liaison Office and Military Severely Injured Program.
 I appreciate the opportunity to share our efforts to help the severely injured and their families.
 Secretary Donald Rumsfeld initiated establishment of the Center last December --
When he said “we need to put together a team to see that the Services take care of their troops after they’re wounded, and when they return home and are discharged.”
 We opened it February 1, 2005.  
 Five months later, nearly to the day, we have 1850 Active Cases of Severely Injured Service Members in our database
 Over 500 have one or more issues that we are working to resolve.

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Military Severely Injured Center Employment Initiatives

Military Spouse Employment Program

Transition Assistance Program

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

**Department of Defense**

## 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

- 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

**Military Severely Injured Center**

## 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.

**Notes:**
Employment working group is one of nine working groups. 

DoL has the lead in employment in the gov’t and they have been a full partner with us in this effort.

## 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

**Notes:**
We are asking corporations and gov’t offices to identify specific jobs and also to work with us when we have a candidate who wants to do a job they have. 

Employment for severely-injured is a one on one activity.

A growing number of companies are joining us

We see joint career fairs as another way to cooperate on identifying and filling jobs

## 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

**Notes:**
We are asking corporations and gov’t offices to identify specific jobs and also to work with us when we have a candidate who wants to do a job they have. 

Employment for severely-injured is a one on one activity.

A growing number of companies are joining us

We see joint career fairs as another way to cooperate on identifying and filling jobs

## Military Severely Injured Center24-7 Family Support1-888-774-1361Call Anytime!

**Bottomline:  Center’s 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.**

## 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.

**Notes:**
We are asking corporations and gov’t offices to identify specific jobs and also to work with us when we have a candidate who wants to do a job they have. 

Employment for severely-injured is a one on one activity.

A growing number of companies are joining us

We see joint career fairs as another way to cooperate on identifying and filling jobs

## Severely Injured Employment

- 2. Raise awareness around benefits of spouse employee pool
- Established new web portal:** Military Spouse Career Center **_[www.military.com/spouse](http://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

**Notes:**
We are asking corporations and gov’t offices to identify specific jobs and also to work with us when we have a candidate who wants to do a job they have. 

Employment for severely-injured is a one on one activity.

A growing number of companies are joining us

We see joint career fairs as another way to cooperate on identifying and filling jobs

## 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;

**Notes:**
We are asking corporations and gov’t offices to identify specific jobs and also to work with us when we have a candidate who wants to do a job they have. 

Employment for severely-injured is a one on one activity.

A growing number of companies are joining us

We see joint career fairs as another way to cooperate on identifying and filling jobs

## 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).

**Notes:**
We are asking corporations and gov’t offices to identify specific jobs and also to work with us when we have a candidate who wants to do a job they have. 

Employment for severely-injured is a one on one activity.

A growing number of companies are joining us

We see joint career fairs as another way to cooperate on identifying and filling jobs

## Employment Points of Contact

- Leslye Arsht:  *Severely Injured & Spouses*
- Tel:  703-588-0877   Email:  Leslye.Arsht@osd.mil
- Patrick Brick:  *Operation Warfighter Program*
- Tel: 703-588-0953   Email:  Patrick.Brick.ctr@osd.mil
- Mark Smith:  *Federal Agency Recruitment*
- Tel: 703-696-1723   Email:  Mark.Smith@cpms.osd.mil
- Gary Woods:  *Transition Assistance Program*
- Tel: 703-602-4949 ext.161   Email:  Gary.Woods@osd.mil

**Notes:**
We are asking corporations and gov’t offices to identify specific jobs and also to work with us when we have a candidate who wants to do a job they have. 

Employment for severely-injured is a one on one activity.

A growing number of companies are joining us

We see joint career fairs as another way to cooperate on identifying and filling jobs