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¶ … Veterans Employment and Training Service (VETS) program touts the fact that the organization seeks to provide meaningful and successful careers for all veterans (United States, 2015). VETS seems to be much more than just a program, however, providing a number and variety of different resources for any veteran interested in obtaining, and keeping, gainful employment. The organization's mission statement describes opportunities that will prepare the veteran for obtaining meaningful careers, maximizing employment, and protecting veteran's rights in the workforce.
The number of veterans since 2001 that have been provided information or been counseled by the VETS program has totaled "more than one million individuals through briefings or individual technical assistance" (United States, 2015). That number averages more than 75,000 veterans per year benefiting from what the program has to offer. Due to the travesties of war and combat, many of these veterans are suffering from debilitating injuries, both physical and mental in nature. Since the early 1970's the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has offered therapeutic work programs through its compensated work therapy (CWT) efforts (Leddy, Stefanovics, Rosenheck, 2014). Many of these veterans receiving help are both homeless and destitute. VETS is there to assist these men and women in building new careers, receiving assistance and landing jobs. Larson and Norman (2014) determined that a large percentage...
Those areas of concern included; social functioning, self-care, and productivity. The VETS program seeks to address those problems by focusing not only on assisting in the veteran's assimilation process, but by providing veterans with information, training and assistance. Without the assistance of programs like VETS, jobless veterans would not only have to rely on other means of support, but could also suffer needlessly, especially those veterans already suffering from various medical maladies. One recent report documents the fact that "participants obtaining competitive employment demonstrated significantly higher scores on the Social Integration, Mobility, and Occupation dimensions" (Ottomanelli, Barnett, Goetz, 2013, p. 2134); participants were veterans suffering from spinal cord injuries.
What VETS does
The VETS program was established in response to the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 in order to promulgate, distribute and promote information and data the will assist veterans in gaining training and education with the parameters of finding a job and/or career after returning home from combat or service in foreign climes. VETS works hand-in-hand with a number of other veteran groups to ensure the transition from military service to civilian workforce takes place in an efficient and effective manner. The…
References
Larson, G.E. & Norman, S.B.; (2014) Prospective prediction of functional difficulties among recently separated veterans, Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development, 51(3) 415-427
Leddy, M.; Stefanovics E. & Rosenheck, R.; (2014) Health and well-being of homeless veterans participating in transitional and supported employment: Six-month outcomes, Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 51(1) 161-174
NVTAC (2014) Overview, accessed at http://bbi.syr.edu/projects/National_Veterans_Technical_Assistance_Center/index.html, on February 24, 2015
Ottomanelli, L.; Barnett, S.D. & Goetz, L.L.; (2013) A prospective examination of the impact of a supported employment on health-related quality of life, handicap and disability among veterans with SCI, Quality of Life Research, 22(8) 2133-2141
United States, (2015) Department of Labor, accessed on February 23, 2015 at http://www.dol.gov/vets/aboutvets/mission/mission.htm
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