NVTI Resources

Department of Education (DoEd), Military Families and Veterans
Veterans may qualify for additional educational benefits on top of those from the GI Bill. This webpage from the Department of Education (DoEd), Military Families and Veteranscan also help those looking for pathways to become a teacher or resources to understand the rights of disabled veterans.
https://www.ed.gov/veterans-and-military-families

Education Planner
EducationPlanner is your one-stop career and college planning website. Education Planner provides practical and easy-to-understand advice to help prepare students for the important decisions they will face in the future.
http://www.educationplanner.org/index.html

GI Bill
The GI Bill provides educational assistance to servicemembers, veterans, and their dependents.
https://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/

New Directions for Veterans (NDVets)
New Directions for Veterans offers a wide array of services including substance abuse treatment, counseling, remedial education, job training and placement, as well as parenting and money management classes. Legal and tax assistance are available, as is an active aftercare program and resources for alumni. Veterans leave NDVets with a savings account, housing, a job or other income, computer skills, renewed self-confidence and the support of mentors and peers. Such a transformation takes hard work, motivation and accountability, but the results are life altering—and for many veterans, life-saving.
https://ndvets.org/

Post-9/11 GI Bill
Veterans who served on active duty after September 10, 2001, may qualify for the Post-9/11 GI Bill that can help the veteran pay for job training.
https://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/post911_gibill.asp

Student Veterans of America
Student Veterans of America’s mission is to provide military veterans with the resources, support, and advocacy needed to succeed in higher education and following graduation.
https://studentveterans.org/

Syracuse University Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF)
The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University is higher education’s first interdisciplinary academic institute, singularly focused on advancing the post-service lives of the nation’s military veterans and their families to serve those who have served.
https://ivmf.syracuse.edu/about-ivmf/

VetSuccess on Campus (VSOC)
The VetSuccess on Campus (VSOC) program aims to help Veterans, Servicemembers, and their qualified dependents succeed and thrive through a coordinated delivery of on-campus benefits assistance and counseling, leading to completion of their education and preparing them to enter the labor market in viable careers.
https://www.benefits.va.gov/vocrehab/vsoc.asp

Career Development Resources

Military Medics and Corpsmen (MMAC)
The Military Medics and Corpsmen (MMAC) team recruits, reviews and refers candidates to healthcare employers statewide. The hiring decisions and scope of practice are up to the employers. While MMAC doesn’t provide licensure and certification or direct financial assistance – they do clear the path for the veteran’s next mission: being part of Virginia’s civilian healthcare team.
https://www.dvs.virginia.gov/education-employment/military-medics-corpsmen-mmac-program

JVSG Companion Programs: Useful Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Resources for JVSG Staff and Veterans Seeking Employment
In this sixth article of the JVSG Companion Program Series, we examine various resources for veteran job seekers offered by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
https://www.nvti.org/2023/08/31/jvsg-companion-programs-useful-office-of-personnel-management-opm-resources-for-jvsg-staff-and-veterans-seeking-employment/

JVSG Companion Programs: Small Business Administration (SBA) – Support for Veteran Entrepreneurs
Jobs for Veterans State Grant (JVSG) personnel are tasked with providing individualized career services and employer outreach to help veterans realize and sustain employment; in some cases, veterans seek entrepreneurial opportunities and want to understand more about options for starting their own businesses. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recognizes the impact that veterans have on the American economy.
https://www.nvti.org/2023/08/31/jvsg-companion-programs-small-business-administration-sba-support-for-veteran-entrepreneurs

Improving Job Retention for Veterans with Challenges
In this article, we explore a few key elements of job retention, job matching, and job retention planning.
https://www.nvti.org/News-and-Announcements/Featured-Articles/Improving-Job-Retention-for-Veterans-with-Challenges

JVSG Companion Programs: DOL-VETS and the VA’s VR&E Collaboration Agreement
In the fourth article of JVSG Companion Programs, our continuing NVTI series for Jobs for Veterans State Grant (JVSG) personnel, we’ll review resources available through the VR&E partnership—an integrated approach and proven match with the VETS mission to prepare veterans, service members, and spouses for meaningful employment.
https://www.nvti.org/2023/08/31/jvsg-companion-programs-dol-vets-and-the-vas-vre-collaboration-agreement

Apprenticeships May Be the Right Vocational Choice for Veterans with Challenges
In this article we will discuss the value of apprenticeships, offer a case study, and provide resources for pursuing an earn and learn career strategy.
https://www.nvti.org/2023/08/31/apprenticeships-may-be-the-right-vocational-choice-for-veterans-with-challenge

Virtual Job Fairs
With the current social climate changing the way businesses operate, American Job Centers will need to quickly implement hosting and facilitating virtual job fairs, if there are not doing so already.
https://www.nvti.org/News-and-Announcements/Featured-Articles/Virtual-Job-Fairs

Resources for Veteran Employment Service Providers
While it may seem more challenging to assist veterans during this time of social distancing, there are many online resources available to facilitate veterans’ employment.
https://www.nvti.org/News-and-Announcements/Featured-Articles/Resources-for-Veteran-Employment-Service-Providers

The Best Jobs and Fields for Veterans
Veterans have a variety of skills that lend themselves to many career fields. Some veterans pursue careers that closely mirror their work while in the military, leveraging skills gained during their service; other veterans look for careers that will allow them to gain additional skills and pursue fields outside of their comfort zones. Regardless of whether a veteran wants to seek employment that provides work similar to their experience during service or explore an entirely new area, there are many career paths to refer veterans to for employment.
https://www.nvti.org/News-and-Announcements/Featured-Articles/The-Best-Jobs-and-Fields-for-Veterans

Honoring the Employers who Hire our Nation’s Heroes
This article discusses the HIRE Medallion Award program, that recognizes organization’s commitment to veteran hiring, retention, and professional development.
https://www.nvti.org/News-and-Announcements/Featured-Articles/Honoring-the-Employers-who-Hire-our-Nations-Heroes

Career One Stop
Career One Stop is a source for career exploration, training, and jobs sponsored by U.S. DOL.
https://www.careeronestop.org/

Customized Employment:
Customized Employment (CE) is an approach to hiring, retention, and return to work that ties the strengths, conditions, and interests of a job candidate or employee to the business needs of an employer. It provides greater employee satisfaction and productivity, among other benefits, bringing better retention and profitability for employers. It can bring people from diverse populations, including those with disabilities, into the workplace to contribute their untapped talents to businesses.
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/odep/program-areas/customized-employment
https://leadcenter.org/employment-strategies/customized-employment-and-discovery/
http://drivedisabilityemployment.org/

Guided Group Discovery and Self-Guided Discovery:
Guided Group Discovery (GGD) is a strategy that assembles small groups of up to 10 job seekers committed to an employment search. Led by one or more trained facilitators, job seekers are guided through a process of self-exploration and offered an opportunity for peer support that is often very beneficial to job seekers, especially people who may be struggling to find employment and may otherwise lose motivation to stick with the job search over time. As with a more traditional job club model, Guided Group Discovery provides the added benefit of networking and feeling less alone in the job search process.
http://www.leadcenter.org/customized-employment/discovery
http://altarum.ggdpw1.sgizmo.com/s3/

Joint National Guard Employment Support Program (ESP)
The Joint National Guard Employment Support Program supports our National Guard Service members in finding meaningful careers and job opportunities.
https://www.militaryonesource.mil/national-guard/joint-services-support-program

Marine for Life Network (M4L)
Marine for Life Network connects transitioning Marines and their family members to education resources, employment opportunities, and other veterans’ services that aid in their career and life goals outside of military service.
https://usmc-mccs.org/services/career/marine-for-life-network/

Military Civilian Occupation Translator
Use the Military Civilian Occupation Translator to identify which military occupations (including Military Occupation Specialty, or MOS and MOC codes) best match civilian job openings on the basis of education, training, skills, and experience.
https://www.careeronestop.org/BusinessCenter/Toolkit/civilian-to-military-translator-help.aspx

Military Occupational Classification (MOC) Crosswalk Search
Use the MOC Crosswalk Search to find military codes or titles.
https://www.onetonline.org/crosswalk/MOC/

My Next Move for Veterans
My Next Move for Veterans is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration, and developed by the National Center for O*NET Development.
https://www.mynextmove.org/vets/

My Skills My Future
My Skills My Future is a CareerOneStop website that helps link military and civilian occupations.
https://www.myskillsmyfuture.org/

New Directions for Veterans (NDVets)
New Directions for Veterans offers a wide array of services including substance abuse treatment, counseling, remedial education, job training and placement, as well as parenting and money management classes. Legal and tax assistance are available, as is an active aftercare program and resources for alumni. Veterans leave NDVets with a savings account, housing, a job or other income, computer skills, renewed self-confidence and the support of mentors and peers. Such a transformation takes hard work, motivation and accountability, but the results are life altering—and for many veterans, life-saving.
https://ndvets.org/

O*Net Online
O*Net Online is a tool for career exploration and job analysis.
https://www.onetonline.org
Testing and Assessment: A Guide to Good Practices for Workforce Investment Professionalism
This guide serves to help career counselors and training and development professionals use assessment practices in appropriate ways to support the overarching goal of workforce development.
https://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/attach/TEN/ten2007/TEN21-07a1.pdf

Ticket to Work
Ticket to Work connects you with free employment services to help you decide if working is right for you, prepare for work, find a job or maintain success while you are working. If you choose to participate, you will receive services such as career counseling, vocational rehabilitation, and job placement and training from authorized Ticket to Work service providers, such as Employment Networks (EN) or your State Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agency. The service provider you choose will serve as an important part of your “employment team” that will help you on your journey to financial independence.
https://choosework.ssa.gov/index.html

Universal Design:
Universal Design is a strategy for making products, environments, operational systems, and services welcoming and usable to the most diverse range of people possible. Its key principles are simplicity, flexibility, and efficiency. When American Job Centers apply Universal Design principles, everyone works together towards a world-class service environment to help all Americans get training and find jobs.
https://disability.workforcegps.org/resources/2018/06/11/16/20/The_Benefits_of_Universal_Design

Testing and Assessment: A Guide to Good Practices for Workforce Investment Professionalism
This guide serves to help career counselors and training and development professionals use assessment practices in appropriate ways to support the overarching goal of workforce development.
https://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/attach/TEN/ten2007/TEN21-07a1.pdf

Veterans Career Fairs—DAV
DAV is a nonprofit charity that focuses on connecting veterans with meaningful employment and resources.
https://www.dav.org/veterans/employment-resources/job-search-events/

Veterans.gov
Veterans.gov provides resources for all veterans, including information on finding a job, starting a business, hiring veterans, VA benefits and information, and military spouses.
https://www.veterans.gov/

Benefits and Other Support Resources

Community Care
Veterans may be eligible for care through a provider in their local community depending on their health care needs or circumstances, and if they meet specific eligibility criteria. Even if a Veteran is eligible for community care, they generally still have the option to receive care from a VA medical facility. In most cases, Veterans must receive approval from Veteran Affairs (VA) before receiving care from a community provider to avoid being billed for the care. VA staff members generally make all eligibility determinations for community care.
https://www.va.gov/COMMUNITYCARE/programs/veterans/General_Care.asp

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Regional Loan Center
For more information, contact a VA Regional Loan Center by calling toll-free (877) 827-3702 or visit their Home Loan website.
https://www.benefits.va.gov/HOMELOANS/contact_rlc_info.asp

How Telehealth Is Changing Healthcare for Veterans
One of the tools that has facilitated telehealth for veterans is VA Video Connect, which allows Veterans and their caregivers to quickly and easily meet with VA health care providers through live video on any computer, tablet, or mobile device.
https://www.nvti.org/News-and-Announcements/Featured-Articles/How-Telehealth-Is-Changing-Healthcare-for-Veterans

Making Careers Happen for Veterans: Community of Practice
A community of practice is a group of professionals with common interests that collaborate and connect in a shared location to educate, support, cultivate, and encourage one another. The National Veterans’ Training Institute’s (NVTI) Making Careers Happen for Veterans (MCHV): Community of Practice bridges the gap on best practices and challenges that exist for those in the public workforce investment system serving veterans.
https://www.nvti.org/News-and-Announcements/Featured-Articles/Making-Careers-Happen-for-Veterans-Community-of-Practice

National Resource Directory (NRD)
The National Resource Directory (NRD) is a resource website that connects wounded warriors, Service Members, Veterans, their families, and caregivers to programs and services that support them. The NRD is hosted, managed, maintained, sustained and developed by the Defense Health Agency’s Recovery Coordination Program. NRD provides access to services and resources at the national, state and local levels to support recovery, rehabilitation and community reintegration.
https://nrd.gov/

Social Security (SS) Card Replacement
The Social Security Administration (SSA) can offer veterans a new or replacement Social Security (SS) card at:
https://www.ssa.gov/myaccount/replacement-card.html

Understanding Veteran Mental Health and How You Can Help
It’s important to be aware of the mental well-being of the veterans around you. Treated or untreated, understanding veteran mental health helps mitigate worsening symptoms. Knowing the symptoms of common veteran mental health disorders, as well as having basic skills to interact with a veteran with a mental health issue, can create trust and increase the possibility for success in helping them find employment and rebuild their lives.
https://www.nvti.org/News-and-Announcements/Featured-Articles/Understanding-Veteran-Mental-Health

ABLE National Resource Center
The ABLE National Resource Center (ABLE NRC) is the leading, comprehensive source of objective, independent information about federal- and state-related ABLE programs and activities, including guidance on tax-advantaged ABLE savings accounts. Our mission is to educate, promote and support the positive impact ABLE can make on the lives of millions of Americans with disabilities and their families. ABLE NRC is a collaborative that brings together the investment, support and resources of some of the country’s largest and most influential national disability organizations in an effort to accelerate the design and availability of ABLE accounts to meet the needs of individuals with disabilities and their families.
https://www.ablenrc.org/

Benefits Finder
Hosted by Benefits.gov, the Benefit Finder questionnaire can be used to find information on benefits veterans and others may be eligible to receive.
https://www.benefits.gov/benefit-finder

Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR)
Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, a Department of Defense program, was established in 1972 to promote cooperation and understanding between Reserve Component Service members and their civilian employers and to assist in the resolution of conflicts arising from an employee’s military commitment.
https://www.esgr.mil

Financial Literacy and Capability
An important focus of the LEAD Center’s mission is to increase the financial literacy and financial capability of people with disabilities. Participation in the workforce, which produces increased income, is a vital first step for working-age adults with disabilities to build economic self-sufficiency. Employment also serves as an important gateway for individuals to further explore tools and strategies to improve their economic stability and security. The LEAD Center works to foster pathways to economic advancement for people with disabilities to improve their present and long-term financial well-being, while supporting the workforce development, Home and Community Based Services, and other systems that share this mission.
https://leadcenter.org/resources/secure-your-financial-future-a-toolkit-for-individuals-with-disabilities/

Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF)
The Institute for Veterans and Military Families provided programs & services to more than 20,000 veterans, service members and their families in 2017, and more than 90,000 since 2011.
https://ivmf.syracuse.edu/

Make the Connection
Make the Connection is an online resource designed to connect Veterans, their family members and friends, and other supporters with information, resources, and solutions to issues affecting their lives.
https://maketheconnection.net/stories-of-connection

Military Officers Association of America (MOAA)
The Military Officers Association of America is the nation’s largest and most influential association of military officers. Represent the interests of military officers and their families at every stage of their careers.
https://www.moaa.org/

Money Smart—A Financial Education Program
The FDIC’s Money Smart financial education program can help people of all ages enhance their financial skills and create positive banking relationships. Learn here about Money Smart tools and strategies that you can use to teach others, as well as tools you can use to learn on your own. First released in 2001 and regularly updated since then, Money Smart has a long track record of success.
https://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/moneysmart/

United States Army – Soldier for Life (SFL)
United States Army Soldier for Life program improves Soldier, Family, and Army readiness by developing a broad network of resources to support every soldier, veteran, and family member through all phases of their service.
https://soldierforlife.army.mil/

Vets Prevail
Vets Prevail is a personalized & confidential behavior change platform where Veterans help each other to discover issues and overcome challenges.
https://www.vetsprevail.org/