# Presentation: 798700

## Transition Assistance Program

**To prepare Service Members and their families for a successful transition to civilian life**

**To prepare Service Members and their families for a successful transition to civilian life**

- Gary A. Woods
- Educational Opportunities
- Department of Defense

## The Transition Process

## Pre-separation Counseling

**Effects of a Career Change**
**Employment Assistance**
**Relocation Assistance**
**Education/Training**
**Health and Life Insurance**
**Finances**
**Reserve Affiliation**
**Veterans Benefits Briefing**
**Disabled Veterans Briefing (DTAP)**
**Post Government Employment Restriction Counseling**
**Individual Transition Plan**
**Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act**

## Employment Assistance

*******DOL Employment  Assistance Workshop**** (2 1⁄2 days)**
**USERRA in lieu of 2 1⁄2 workshop**
**DoD Job Search Web site**** – **_**www.dod.jobsearch.org**_
**Transition Bulletin Board – PACS**
**Teacher & Teacher’s Aide Opportunities**
**Troops to Teachers & Spouses-to-Teachers**
**Federal Employment Opportunities**** **_**www.godefense.com**_**;  **_**www.usajobs.com**_
**Hiring Preference**** in Non-Appropriated Fund (NAF) jobs**
**State Employment Agencies/America’s Job Bank****  **_**www.ajb.org**_
**Employer Support for Guard and Reserve**** (ESGR)**
**Career One Stop Centers**** – **_**www.careeronestop.org**_

## Veterans Affairs (VA) Benefits

**Education and Training**
**Health Care**
**Home Loans**
**Life Insurance**
***Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment**** **
**Disability Benefits**
**Burial Benefits**
**Dependents’ and Survivors’ Benefits**

## Disabled Transition Assistance (DTAP) Program

**For Service members and veterans who have or suspect they have:**
** ****A Service-connected disability or**
** ****An injury or illness that was aggravated by service**

## DTAP Program Continued

**Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment**** **
**5 Tracks To Employment**
**Re-employment**
**Rapid Access To Employment**
**Employment Through Long Term Services**
**Independent Living Services**
**Self Employment**** **
**Other Services **
**Medical, Dental, Optical****	**
**Mental Health Treatment **
**Vet Centers**
**Special Adapted Housing**
**Vocational/Educational Counseling**
**Special Hiring Authority**

## Troops-to-Teachers (TTT)

- Assists separating Service members becoming certified and employed as elementary and secondary teachers
- Provides counseling and assistance with certification and referrals in 43 states
- Stipends and grants available for qualified personnel
- Looking for math, science, special ed teachers for high needs schools

## Spouses-to-Teachers Program

- Helps mobile spouses pursue or continue a career as an elementary or secondary teacher
- Information about state certification requirements
- Counseling about different routes to certification
- Assistance with certification applications
- Financial assistance with certification exams
- Information about teaching positions
- Web site for continual assistance

## Transition Points of Contact

_**Department of Defense**_
- Office of the Under Secretary of Defense
- (Personnel and Readiness)
- ATTN:  Mr. Ron Horne
- Crystal Square 4, Suite 302
- 241 18th Street
- Arlington, VA  22202
- Telephone:  (703) 602-4949, ext. 115
- Fax:  (703) 602-4972
- E-mail:  _Ronald.Horne.ctr@osd.mil_
_**United States Army**_
- U.S. Army Human Resources Command
- ATTN:  TAPC-PDT-O
**(Jim Hoffman)**
- Hoffman II, Room 7S07
- 200 Stovall Street
- Alexandria, VA  22332
- Telephone:  (703) 325-3901
- Fax:            (703) 325-4072
- E-mail: _James.Hoffman@hoffman.army.mil_
** **
**Alternate: Mr. Herb Schwab **
- E-mail: _Herb.Schwab@hoffman.army.mil_
- Phone:  (703) 325-2574

_**United States Navy**_
- Commander, Navy Installations Command (N213)
- ATTN:  **Mr. David Dubois**
- 2713 Mitscher Road, SW
- Anacostia Annex
- Washington, DC  20373-5802
- Telephone:  (202) 433-4592
- Fax:
- E-mail: _david.dubois1@navy.mil__     _
_**United States Air Force**_
- HQ AFPC/DPPTF
- ATTN:  **Ms. Judith Warner**
- Suite 11
- 550 C Street West
- Randolph Air Force Base, TX  78150-4713
- Telephone:  (210) 565-2311
- Fax:             (210) 565-3385
- E-mail:  _Judith.Warner@randolph.af.mil_
**Alternate: Ms. Joyce Seibel **
- E-mail: _Joyce.Seibel@randolph.af.mil_
- Phone:  (210) 565-2631

_**United States Marine Corps**_
- HQ USMC
- Manpower and Reserve Affairs (MRM)
- ATTN:  **Ms. Laura Bass**
- 3280 Russell Road
- Quantico, VA  22134-5103
- Telephone:  (703) 784-9523/24/25
- Fax:             (703) 784-9828
- E-mail: _laura.s.bass@usmc.mil_
_**United States Coast Guard**_
- Commandant (G-WKW-Z)
- US Coast Guard
- ATTN:  **Mr. Rodney Whaley**
- 2100 2nd Street, SW
- Washington, DC  20593-0001
- Telephone:  (202) 267-6076
- Fax:             (202) 267-4895
- E-mail: _ __rwhaley@comdt.uscg.mil_

## TTT and STT Points of Contact

_**Department of Defense**_
- Office of the Under Secretary of Defense
- (Personnel and Readiness)
- Attn:  **Ms. Carolyn L. Baker**
- 241 18th Street South, Suite 302
- Arlington, VA  22202
- Telephone:  (703) 602-4949, ext. 113
- Fax:  (703) 602-4972
- E-mail:  _Carolyn.Baker@osd.mil _
_**Troops-to-Teachers**_ and
_**Spouses-to-Teachers Programs**_
- DANTES
- Attn:  **Dr. John Gantz**
- 6490 Saufley Field Road
- Pensacola, FL  32509-5243
- Telephone:  (800) 231-6242
- Fax:            (850) 452-1096
- E-mail: _jgantz@voled.doded.mil_
** **
- Alternate:** Mr. Peter Peters **
- E-mail: _ppeters@voled.doded.mil_
- _www.jobs2teach.doded.mil/Jobs2Teach_