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Maine's CHOICES CEO Project

Return to Work Strategies Target Returning War Veterans with Disabilities

The following provides an incomplete list of organizations and government resources dedicated to helping returning war veterans with disabilities regain their lives and who can assist in getting them back into the workforce.:

• Wounded Warriors’ Project Warriors to Work is a free service to any man or woman who was injured in the line of duty. Using their website at http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/, applicants can download a résumé blank, post it on their website and apply directly with program sponsors. They also list internships and other career opportunities within the organization itself.
  
  
• Hire Heroes USA (HHUSA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that offers a “personal approach matching the career interests, qualifications and transferable skills of veterans with the needs of hiring companies.” Once an applicant completes a profile and submits a résumé, a representative from HHUSA will contact him or her for a personalized phone interview to determine how best to place the applicant with one of their Corporate Partners.  Additional information can be obtained online at http://www.hireheroesusa.org/.
  
  
• The US Department of Veteran’s Affairs’ (VA) Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Service focuses on getting returning veterans back to their highest potential through a variety of rehabilitation services, both in their medical facilities and on an ongoing outpatient basis, as well as offering support for their families. They offer a full range of career counseling, education and vocational training for active duty servicepeople due to discharged within six months or who have been discharged within the last year, including guidance for veterans interested in self-employment.
  
  
• The US Department of Labor (DOL) focuses more on veterans who have been out of the service for a longer while. Their Veterans Employment and Training Services (VETS) features the Disabled Veterans Outreach Program that performs outreach to disabled vets via over 1400 specialists who develop local jobs programs, including apprenticeships and on-the-job training opportunities. Additionally, they fund around 1,300 Local Veterans’ Employment Representatives (LVERs) to offer directed assistance to veterans at each state’s local employment office, monitoring opportunities as they arise for local veterans in both the private and public sector.
  
  
• The DOL in involved with a number of other, more specialized organizations in private/public partnerships dedicated to finding employment for veterans in a number of areas, including Troops2Truckers – which provides transitioning service members with professional commercial trucking industry training and/or CDL (Commerical Drivers License) certification, HelmetsToHardhats for placement in construction trades, Troops-To-Teachers – which provides Referral Assistance and Placement services to military personnel interested in beginning a second career in public education as a teacher, and America’s Heroes at Work, which focuses on issues surrounding Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and is allied with the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP).

CHOICES CEO activities are staffed out of the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine. This web site is part of the CHOICES CEO project, funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services through a grant to Maine's Department of Health and Human Services (grant #1QACMS030316). Views expressed do not represent official policy of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, or the University of Southern Maine.