Employment Resources for Service Providers

The following are useful employment resources for service providers assisting homeless veterans: 

America’s Heroes at Work
A U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) project that addresses the employment challenges of returning service members living with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and/or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Designed for employers and the workforce development system, this website is your link to information and tools to help returning service members living with TBI and/or PTSD succeed in the workplace – particularly service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Disability Employment Resource Page
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), in alliance with DOL’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (DOL/ODEP), launched this "Disability Employment Resource Page." The page is geared toward employers and offers resources, articles and information to help recruit, hire and retain people with disabilities. The new resource page also includes video interviews of experts in the field of disability employment.

Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program (HVRP) Factsheets

HVRP Factsheet: Understanding the VA and DoD Disability Benefit System
This factsheet from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) explains the Disability Evaluation System, the Disability Rating System, and Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs benefit programs based on disability.

HVRP Factsheet: Using Tax Credits to Encourage Hiring of Homeless and Disabled Veterans
Produced by VCU, this factsheet provides an overview of tax credits employers can receive for hiring workers that qualify under nine target groups. Homeless veterans may qualify under several of the target groups.

Linking One-Stop Career Centers and Homeless Assistance & Housing Programs
This guide by the Chronic Homelessness Employment Technical Assistance Center (CHETA) outlines different models to build partnerships at all levels to increase income and self-sufficiency for those with significant barriers to employment.

Rebuilding Lives... from the Streets to a Home and a Job
This report from CHETA provides case studies of five formerly homeless clients, their backgrounds, and their respective paths to employment and self-sufficiency.

Veterans Employment Preference Points Guide
Military.com offers this page providing information on how veterans employment preference points work for veterans seeking federal employment. The overview includes requirements for preference, types of preference, and how the process works.

Virginia Commonwealth University’s HVRP Technical Assistance Site
The VCU National Technical Assistance Center provides practical, hands on technical assistance and training. VCU uses a variety of formats to address the training needs of HVRP programs across the country including: face-to-face, teleconferences, webcasts and print.

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