Business Case Study: Why Hire a VET?
By Stacy Bayton
Public Private Partnership Highlight:
Providing Support to Military and Veteran Communities
Pennsylvania has almost 1 million veterans living within its borders. Additionally, approximately 56,500 active duty service members, National Guard, Coast Guard, and Reservists serve within the State.
Cuts to state budgets have hit states like PA right where it hurts – program cuts for the State’s population as well as military and veteran communities.
Employment Services Focused on Placement in PA
CASY & MSCCN partnered with the PA National Guard to provide direct employment placement services to all National Guard, Reserves, Veterans, transitioning active duty service members, and family members from PA. These services include no-cost targeted employment readiness, transitional assistance, gap skills training, employment placement, and financial health training. This partnership provides the PA National Guard with a sustainable model for employment that produces outcomes. The employment model includes a placement program, applicant tracking and case management technology to track the status of each PA military-affiliated job seeker, program and technology support, training support and Train2Hire™ opportunities, and more. If you are in PA or headed back to PA and looking for assistance, register at http://www.casy.us/JobSeekers/index.html and an Employment Specialist will contact you within 48 hours.
In addition to the employment services offered through the CASY, MSCCN, and PA National Guard partnership, many other organizations offer support programs in the
To help combat the cutbacks in military family and veteran programs, the PA National Guard has taken a leading position in supplying sustainable programs for all military and Veterans in the State.
By forming partnerships with CASY, MSCCN, and other nonprofit organizations, the PA National Guard is helping to build and deploy strategic partnerships that can mobilize resources and build networks that best support our men and women in uniform and their family members as their career goals change and transition begins.