Transition Assistance Programs

Transition Training Academy New!

Provides comprehensive, instructor-led eLearning and certifications in IT and Cisco network to recovering wounded warriors. Created to provide training and career opportunities when traditional classroom training is not feasible.

Disabled Veterans - Opportunities to Use Your Abilities New!

DoD employment opportunities for veterans with disabilities; internships; scholarships and fellowships; grants, loans and financial aid; education and training; transition centers and general information for both disabled veterans and managers.

REALifelines - Recovery & Employment Assistance Lifelines New!

A Department of Labor program that provides veterans and transitioning service members wounded and injured as a result of the War on Terrorism, and their family members, with the resources they need to successfully transition to a rewarding career.

America's Heroes at Work

This project focuses on the employment challenges of returning service members living with TBI and/or PTSD. Designed for employers and the workforce development system, this Web site offers information and tools to help returning service members succeed in the workplace.

Army Career & Alumni Program (ACAP)

Provides pre-separation counseling on transition benefits and services and job assistance training, including information for family members.

DoD Web Portal for Military Transitioners

Provides transition assistance, pre-separation guides, job search information and contact information for Transition Assistance Offices.

Handbook for Injured Service Members & Their Families

Overview of benefits, rights and resources available to service members and their families to help with financial, medical, educational, employment and other needs.

Helmets to Hardhats

Encourages the transition from military to civilian life by providing training to service members in construction skills.

Helping National Guard & Reserve Reenter the Workplace

Explains the emotional and psychological issues that reservists may experience transitioning from active duty into their former job or workplace. Document is in .pdf format.

Heroes to Hometowns

Welcomes home service members who can no longer serve in the military and establishes a support network allowing them and their families to ease into their hometown or new surroundings. Sign up online for assistance.

Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program

Assists in reintegrating homeless veterans into employment. Read the factsheet on how State Vocational Rehabilitation Programs can be a valuable resource for reintegration efforts leading to employment for veterans who are homeless and disabled. Documet is in .pdf format.

Job Connections for AW2 Soldiers

Designed to meet the needs of both disabled soldiers who want the chance to work and the employers who want to actively recruit these outstanding men and women.

Operation Transition

Provides job listings and other employment information for separating/retiring military and federal civilian personnel and their spouses.

Transition Assistance Advisor (TAA) Program

Statewide contacts to assist National Guardsmen, Reservists and veterans in accessing benefits, health care services and community resources.

Transition Assistance Online

Transition assistance information and tools for separating military members, including printable pre-separation guides for both Active Duty and Reserve/National Guard service members. Also includes information on job fairs being held in many locations around the country.

Transition Assistance Program (TAP)

A partnership among the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Transportation and the Department of Labor's Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS) created to meet the needs of separating service members during their period of transition into civilian life by offering job-search assistance and related services.

TurboTAP.org - The Official Transition Assistance Program

Provides assistance to transitioning military personnel leaving service and their family members. Includes printable pre-separation guides for both Active Duty and Reserve/National Guard service members.

VA Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom Home

Information and assistance for returning Active Duty, National Guard and Reserve service members of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF). Includes tips for applying for benefits, help for dependents and valuable information on transitioning to civilian life from the DoD TransPortal.

VA Transition Assistance

Provides information to help service members make the transition to civilian life easier by learning about the VA benefits that are available.

Veteran Employment Transition (VET) Foundation

Provides transition assistance services to Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) veterans who have received, or are realistically expected to receive, a VA disability rating of 30% or more.

Warrior Transition Project

Identifies programs, services and technologies that help transitioning veterans through the trials of homecoming and back into family life, advanced education and employment.

Women Joining Forces - Closing Ranks, Opening Doors

A program that helps women veterans transition into civilian professional life.

Women Veterans in Transition

A pilot research project that provides insight into the experiences of women veterans as they transition from the military into the civilian workforce. Read the Top Ten Recommendations to Support Women Veterans. Document in .pdf format.

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