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Local veterans get help seeking work Patrick McCallister For Veteran voice

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Staff photo by Patrick McCallister Brent Williams spends time at the veterans room at Workforce Solutions of the Treasure Coast’s veterans room. The room is at the Port St. Lucie office, 584 N.W. University Blvd. He recently discharged from the Marine Corps and is seeking work in technology and tech security. erans build resumes and ready themselves to meet employers at the job fair are members of the Palm City Presbyterian Church’s Men’s Bible Study. Tom Lytle,

elder, said the group members wanted to help the community. Many are veterans. “We thought, since we have business skills and have all

hired, we could help vets prepare for interviews as they seek jobs,” the Vietnam veteran said.

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TREASURE COAST—Veterans unemployment is a national problem, but that means it exists in and must be solved by local communities. Martin Veterans aims to help reduce veterans unemployment in Martin County. “We formed a committee and exploring things that could be done,” said Ed Maxwell, first vice president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1041, Stuart. The VVA is a Martin Veterans member organization. Martin Veterans will co-host a veterans job fair — called Veteran Connection — from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 17, at Indian River State College’s Wolf-High Technology Center, Chastain Campus, 2400 S.E. Salerno Road, Stuart. An expected 40 or more employers will be on hand to meet with veterans seeking jobs. But, there’s more to the Veteran Connection. Before the job fair there’ll be three workshops to help veterans compose resumes and hone their interview skills. The first workshop, will be at the Children’s Service Council of Martin County, 101 S.E. Central Parkway, Stuart. That’ll be from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sept. 27. The next two workshops will also be 1 to 4 p.m., on Oct. 4 and 11, at Workforce Solutions, 616 Central Parkway, Stuart. Those who miss the first workshop are welcome to attend the next two. Among those who’ll help vet-

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Veteran Voice is a weekly publication designed to provide information to and about veterans to veterans and to the broader community. Veterans are an integral part of their Florida communities, which currently have individual organizations of their own, such as the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion, the Vietnam Veterans of America and many other groups with a narrow focus, but no convenient way to connect to a wider population of veterans and to the community in general within a limited geographic area, their community. The mission of Veteran Voice is to publish a weekly source of information that will provide, in one place, a listing of resources available to veterans, articles about changes in policies or organizations affecting veterans and events of interest to veterans as well as articles about veterans of interest to the general public. Veteran Voice LLC is organized as a partnership of experienced newspaper executives with an interest in veterans and in the communities of Florida veterans and friends. Veteran Voice is a start-up intended to address a perceived lack of information readily available to veterans on programs and policies affecting them and objective reporting of veteran affairs to the public. To our knowledge, and based on comments from leaders of local veterans organizations, there was no media or website currently meeting this need until the launch of Veteran Voice. We hope you agree, and will support this publication with your subscription. Without subscriptions there will be a limited number of people we can help, without which this mission will not be realized. As part of our commitment to supporting local veteran communities, we will donate 10 percent of our profits each quarter to qualified veteran charities recommended by you, our readers and subscribers. Please let us know what you think by emailing news@veteranvoiceweekly.com or mailing your comments to us at 1919 S.W. South Macedo Blvd., Port St. Lucie, FL 34984.

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Help save a vet with 250-mile bike ride event to end at SEAL Museum FOR VETERAN VOICE

According to a Forbes article published in February, it is believed that an average of 22 United States veterans commit suicide every day. If that was not a shocking enough statistic to make a change on the political front, it was enough to inspire a group of local men and women to start a grassroots movement to bring awareness and raise funds to help address this growing epidemic. Former Navy SEAL Rich Graham, owner and founder of Trident Fitness LLC, is hosting an extreme biking event to raise awareness in the local community and fight for our service men and women as they have paid the price for our freedom. On Saturday, Sept. 28, riders from across the country will be embarking on a two-day ride for a 250-mile round trip. The ride launches from the Sanford Orlando Kennel Club in Longwood, (near Northland Church). The riders will be given the route

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There’s wide disagreement about what the veterans unemployment rate is. What’s not disputed is that veterans — particularly young veterans — are more likely to be unemployed, or underemployed, than their non-veteran counterparts. Federal labor statisticians put veterans unemployment at about 10 percent, compared to a national average at about 7.3 percent for August. However, the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, and some other veterans organizations, hold that it’s closer to 15 percent. So, why the high unemployment? Numerous reasons are cited for veterans unemployment. What’s generally at the center of those explanations are the all-important resume and interview. “A lot of veterans can’t translate their skills into the civilian world,” said Jose Tabar, veterans employment representative, Workforce Solutions of the Treasure Coast. “They don’t realize in the outside world, you get paid for those skills.” In short, many veterans are inept at speaking civilian job skills. Conversely, a number of hiring managers don’t speak military. In other words, they don’t understand how military experiences translate to job skills. “There’s an example of, ‘Have you ever done structured presentations?,’” Tabar said. “In the military, the junior doesn’t even think about it. It’s just, ‘They asked me to show some new recruits something and I did.’ It gets lost in translation. The manager is thinking one thing, and the veteran says, ‘Oh, that’s not

Photo by Patrick McCallister From left to right, Jose Tabar helps Edwin Reyes seek industrial work as Brent Williams looks for a job in tech security. Workforce Solutions of the Treasure Coast has a veterans room at it’s Port St. Lucie office, 584 N.W. University Blvd. what he’s looking for.’’” Lytle said the Men’s Bible Study members have helped veterans learn to speak civilian workplace. “Our group had worked with Workforce Solutions on one or two occasions,” he said. “We went over there and did mock inter-

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views, looked at resumes and talked about their career goals. We’d look at what they did in the military.” In addition to learning to speak civilian workplace, Lytle said many young veterans need help with self-evaluation and –expression. “We’ll sit with them and ask what their objectives are,” he said. “Find out a little about them. What they do well. What they like to do. Then we’ll look at their resumes and see if they reflect what they’re telling us.” Frank Tidikis, treasurer of the local VVA, said Martin Veterans is also finding out which local businesses speak military. “No one has a listing of veteran-owned businesses in the community,” he said. Tidikis said volunteers are calling the about 2,500 businesses in Martin County to find out if they’re veteran-owned or –managed. Martin Veteran will publish a directory to veteran owned businesses when that’s done. Maxwell, who owns Computer Station in Stuart, said he’s always been happy with veterans he’s employed. “They’re a good hire,” he said. “Usually they’re far more disciplined than the guy off the street.

They know that there’s a mission and a mission needs to be done.” Tabar said veterans throughout the Treasure Coast have resources at Workforce Solutions many don’t know about. “In Port St. Lucie, we actually have a resource room,” Tabar said. “It’s got 14 computers and it’s just for veterans.” That office is at 584 N.W. University Blvd. Tabar said Workforce Solutions has five veterans representatives. “We go to the employers and try to get them to open jobs to veterans,” he said. Martin Veterans is a collaborative project started with a $21,000 federal grant by the United Way’s Martin Volunteers. The Business Development Board of Martin County, Indian River State College and Workforce Solutions are among participating organizations. For more about Martin Veterans, visit martinveterans.org. Workforce Solutions is on the web at yourworkforcesolutions.com. The phone number is (866) 482-4473. Palm City Presbyterian Church’s Men’s Bible Study is on Thursday mornings, 6:30 to 7:30 a.m. To find out more, visit palmcitypres. org.

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Old soldier fades away Patrick McCallister For Veteran voice

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“Old soldiers never die…” John Haynes delivered the news to the Florida Veterans Council at its last regular meeting, Thursday, Sept. 19. The chairman and CEO of the Florida Veterans Foundation is retiring at the beginning of October. “He leaves a legacy of sweat and blood that’ll be hard to follow,” Bill Vagianos, the foundation’s District 5 director, said. District 5 covers most of East Central Florida, including Brevard and Indian River counties. Vagianos is also president of Brevard Veterans Council. The Florida Legislature created the foundation in 2008. It’s a direct support organization for the Florida Department of Veterans Affairs. It’s incorporated as a not-for-profit organization to help the department assist veterans. Among other things, it gives direct financial assistance to veterans. Vagianos said the Brevard Veterans Council has approached the foundation for help financially

assisting veterans. “We go to the foundation only if we need those funds,” he said. The foundation gets no funding from the state or federal governments. It operates completely on donations. By the end of the 2012-2013 fiscal year, June 30, the foundation gave about $81,000 in direct financial help to veterans, along with another $13,000 for personal items that were often distributed at stand downs. The foundation got 339 requests for help last fiscal year. It approved 129 of the requests. Additionally, the foundation produces the Florida Veterans Benefit Guide. It paid about $20,000 for printing and shipping them last fiscal year. Haynes told Veteran Voice the foundation also keeps equipment to help those putting on stand downs. “We have tents, mostly tents, to lend them for stand downs,” he said. Haynes said he took the helm at the foundation in July, 2010. He was the state commander of the Disabled American Veterans Department of Florida in ‘06‘07, among many other credits. Haynes was in the Marine Corps

from 1945 to 1975. Among other medals, the Major was awarded the Silver Star during the Vietnam War. The Florida native has been a DAV service officer for about three decades. He intends to continue that work and continue to volunteer consulting services to the foundation. “I’ll be doing a little bit of it,” he said. “I’m almost 84 years old. How much longer I spend doing it — I guess that depends on the good Lord.” Vagianos said Robert “Bob” Milligan got the foundation off to a good start as its first chairman and CEO, but much of its work was constricted to the Tallahassee area. He said Haynes continued and greatly expanded the momentum Milligan started. “John (Haynes) wanted to expand the services across the state and appointed district directors,” he said. The two met in 1999, when Vagianos was working as a psychologist the Department of Veterans Affairs. Haynes was doing veterans services officer work. “Even then he had an unwavering commitment to veterans,

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In “America’s Veterans: A Sound Investment,” the latest in the Center for a New American Security’s “Voices From the Field” series, retired Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, U.S. Army and Maj. Crispin J. Burke, U.S. Army, argue that society should leverage the latest generation of men and women leaving the military, and the skills, expertise and experience they bring to the civilian workforce. The authors examine the employment challenges facing the nation’s nearly 2.6 million post9/11 combat veterans as they transition to civilian jobs. They note that recent veterans “have struggled with unemployment rates that exceed the national average” despite recent survey

findings that showed “most managers felt that military veterans were “better” or “much better” than civilians in areas such as teamwork, reliability, openness to other cultures and races, and work ethic.” This “Voices from the Field” report builds on earlier work by CNAS’s Military, Veterans, and Society research program, including the much-cited 2012 report “Employing America’s Veterans: Perspectives from Businesses” by Dr. Margaret Harrell and Nancy Berglass, which provided empirical data on the experiences of 69 companies and concluded that firms believe it is good business to hire veterans. As in the 2012 CNAS study, Gen. Caldwell and Maj. Burke knock down several stereotypes

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From the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs FOR VETERAN VOICE WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs announced that veterans will have greater access to quality health care through a new initiative: Patient-Centered Community Care (PCCC). Under PCCC, VA medical centers will have the ability to purchase non-VA medical care for veterans through contracted medical providers when they cannot readily provide the needed care due to geographic inaccessibility or limited capacity. Eligible veterans will have access to inpatient specialty care, outpatient specialty care, mental health care, limited emergency care, and limited newborn care for enrolled female Veterans following the birth of a child. In total, VA has awarded two contracts under PCCC, one to Health Net Federal Services LLC and another to TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp. These companies will set up networks in six regions covering the entire country.

VA expects to have these regional contract networks available to its medical centers by the spring of 2014. The awarded contracts, estimated at $9.4 billion, include one base year and four option years. PCCC is part of the overall NonVA Medical Care Program. It will provide all VA facilities with an additional option to purchase nonVA medical care when required veteran care services are unavailable within the VA medical facility or when the Veterans benefit from receiving the needed care nearer to their homes. Among the many benefits to the veterans and VA under these new contracts, VA will enjoy standardized health care quality metrics, timely return of medical documentation, cost avoidance with fixed rates for services across the board, guaranteed access to care, and enhanced tracking and reporting of non-VA medical care expenditures over traditional nonVA medical care services. For additional information, please visit: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=3dde670a20dee9c5a6b38d8ca53642e1&tab=core&_ cview=0

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