The IDEA Publishing
  • HOME
  • Popular IDEAS
    • IDEAS for Your Better Business Life >
      • The Business Idea
      • The Career IDEA
      • The Money Idea
    • IDEAS for Your Better Diversions >
      • The Tech IDEA
      • The Travel IDEA
      • The Auto IDEA
      • The Outdoors IDEA
    • IDEAS for a Better Table >
      • The Food IDEA
      • IDEAS de Cocina Espanola
    • IDEAS for a Better You >
      • The Health IDEA
      • Living Well IDEAS
      • The Fitness IDEA
      • The Beauty IDEA
    • IDEAS for a Happier Home >
      • The Home Idea
      • The Entertaining Idea
      • The Parenting Idea
      • The Senior Living IDEA
      • The Pet IDEA
  • The Video Domain
    • Video IDEAS for Your Better Business Life
  • About
  • Contact
The_Career_IDEA
The Career IDEA

The Career IDEA

What You Need to Know to Get to the Next Level of Success!

The best ways to support veterans

2/4/2017

Comments

 
army-vet-returning-home
Army vet returning home to his loving family


(BPT) - As the new administration and Congress settle into office, many organizations are working hard to put America’s 21 million veterans at the top of the nation’s “to-do” list.


“Veterans share a common thread — regardless of where they served or for how long — they are driven to protect our country and ensure freedom for all citizens,” says DAV (Disabled American Veterans) National Commander Dave Riley. “At the same time, they face unique challenges, from health problems related to their military service to translating their job skills into meaningful employment opportunities. It’s our nation’s duty to support veterans once they return home.”


The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reports that 20 percent of veterans who served since 9/11 are estimated to have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Twenty veterans take their lives every day, most of whom never seek help from the VA, and many veterans struggle to find employment, often leading to homelessness.


To help change the lives of countless veterans and their families, DAV has suggested three priorities for our country’s leaders in 2017:


* Ensure veterans have access to quality and timely health care, including effective mental health services. Changes in the health care system for veterans are critical according to leading veterans service organizations like DAV and VFW, as well as bipartisan leaders in Congress. They all agree the best path forward is to create local, high-performing health care networks, led by the VA, which combine the best of VA with the best of community care.


* Give needed benefits to the caregivers of veterans. While caregivers for veterans who served after 9/11 receive benefits and resources, caregivers of veterans who served in earlier conflicts, such as World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam, do not receive them. This law must be amended and made inclusive.


* Educate employers about the value of hiring veterans, particularly those with disabilities. A recent survey of employers released by DAV, Monster.com and Military.com reveals 30 percent of employers worry about hiring veterans with PTSD. However, the vast majority of employers who have hired veterans with disabilities report it’s been a positive and productive experience.


You can support U.S. veterans.


You can be a positive voice for veterans and support changes in your communities. Start by speaking up on important veteran issues and write your elected officials in Congress. Volunteer with your local VA hospital or drive veterans to medical appointments. And, if you own a business or are a hiring manager, be sure your organization considers veterans’ unique talents and strengths.


America made a promise to care for its veterans, those men and women who sacrificed for everyone's freedoms. Now the nation’s leaders must live up to that promise. For more information about important veteran issues and how you can help, visit www.dav.org.



KEYWORDS

  • benefits
  • BPT
  • Brandpoint Content
  • careers
  • Congress
  • Donald Trump
  • experience
  • federal government
  • health care
  • health insurance
  • military
  • President Trump
  • Trump
  • Veterans
  • Washington

Comments



    Archives

    January 2019
    July 2018
    June 2018
    April 2018
    February 2018
    December 2017
    September 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    February 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016


    Interested in Publishing on The Career IDEA?
    Send your query to the Publisher today!

    Categories

    All
    Achievement
    Activities
    Advancement
    Advice
    Ambition
    Approach
    Attitude
    Awareness
    Benefit Plans
    Benefits
    Body Language
    BPT
    Brain
    Brandpoint Content
    Cafeteria Plans
    Calendar
    Career
    Career Choices
    Career Path
    Careers
    Certification
    Certifications
    Child Care
    Coffee
    Collaboration
    Collaborative
    College Degree
    Commitment
    Communication
    Communications
    Communities
    Commute
    Commuting
    Compensation
    Competition
    Computers
    Confidence
    Congress
    Connectivity
    Consulting
    Corporate Culture
    Creativity
    Credit
    Culture
    Day Care
    Debt
    Deductible
    Dental Insurance
    Dentists
    Design
    Development
    Discrimination
    Diversity
    Dog
    Dogs
    Donald Trump
    Education
    Email
    Emotions
    Employee Benefits
    Entrepreneur
    Entrepreneurial
    Environment
    Executives
    Exercise
    Experience
    Expert
    Experts
    Family Business
    Family Features
    Farming
    Federal Government
    Female
    Finance
    Financing
    First Impressions
    Fitness
    Flexibility
    Flexible Savings Accounts
    Focus
    Food
    Friendships
    FSA
    Fun
    Gender
    Goals
    Graduate School
    Habits
    Hacks
    Health
    Healthcare
    Health Care
    Health Care Costs
    Health Care Jobs
    Health Insurance
    Health Savings Accounts
    Higher Education
    Hobbies
    Hobby
    HRM
    HSA
    Human Resources
    Ideas
    Influence
    Infographic
    Inspiration
    Interview
    Job Interview
    Jobs
    Learning
    Leave
    Lifehacks
    Lifestyle
    LinkedIn
    Lists
    Management
    Managers
    Managing
    Medical
    Meetings
    Mental
    Mental Health
    Mentor
    Mentoring
    Military
    Money
    Morale
    Morning
    Mornings
    Mothers
    Motivation
    Office
    Offices
    Online
    Online Education
    Opportunities
    Oral Communications
    Organization
    Organizing
    Outlook
    Parenting
    Parents
    Pay
    Peers
    Performance
    Personal Finances
    Perspective
    Persuasion
    Pet Friendly
    Pet-friendly
    Pets
    Planning
    Policies
    Policy
    Positive
    Positivity
    Preparation
    Presentation
    President Trump
    Productivity
    Project Management
    Promotion
    Psychology
    Relationships
    Relaxation
    Remote
    Research
    Rest
    Risk
    Role Model
    Routine
    Safety
    Salary
    Satisfaction
    Schedule
    Self Improvement
    Self-improvement
    Sickness
    Side Hustle
    Skills
    Sleep
    Small Business
    Smartphone
    Snacks
    Social
    Strategy
    Stress
    Stressful
    Succeed
    Success
    Surveys
    Tech
    Technology
    Time
    Timeline
    Time Management
    Tips
    Tools
    Trainer
    Training
    Travel
    Trump
    Value
    Veterans
    Video
    Video Meetings
    Vision Insurance
    Volunteering
    Volunteers
    Wages
    Washington
    Wellness
    Women
    Work
    Work And Family
    Work Life Balance
    Workplace
    Workspace






    Get this content for your website with our RSS Feed below!

    RSS Feed


Proudly powered by Weebly
  • HOME
  • Popular IDEAS
    • IDEAS for Your Better Business Life >
      • The Business Idea
      • The Career IDEA
      • The Money Idea
    • IDEAS for Your Better Diversions >
      • The Tech IDEA
      • The Travel IDEA
      • The Auto IDEA
      • The Outdoors IDEA
    • IDEAS for a Better Table >
      • The Food IDEA
      • IDEAS de Cocina Espanola
    • IDEAS for a Better You >
      • The Health IDEA
      • Living Well IDEAS
      • The Fitness IDEA
      • The Beauty IDEA
    • IDEAS for a Happier Home >
      • The Home Idea
      • The Entertaining Idea
      • The Parenting Idea
      • The Senior Living IDEA
      • The Pet IDEA
  • The Video Domain
    • Video IDEAS for Your Better Business Life
  • About
  • Contact