1. February 18 – 19, 2010
Arlington, VA
Recruit and Retain Returning Veterans to
Your Vacant Positions
Veteran Reintegration
into the Workforce
Identify Best Practices in Assisting Veterans
with a Successful Transition from Military to Civilian Life
You Will Learn to:
Develop an Effective Job Training Program for Returning Veterans
Equip your office with the tools necessary to train veterans returning to the civilian workforce
Create a Strategic Plan for Your Veteran Reintegration Strategy
Align your veteran reintegration workforce strategy with long term reachable goals
Assist Disabled Veterans with Employment
Learn how to work with veterans and employers to provide equal job placement opportunities
for those with service-connected disabilities
Utilize One-Stop Career Center Approaches to Reintegration
Properly screen veterans to ensure the right candidates are selected for interviews
In Association with: Make the Most of One-Stop Career
Center Veteran Services
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2. Veteran Reintegration into the Workforce
Day One
February 18, 2010
8:30
Conference Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00
Keynote Address: Transition Assistance into Civilian Life
For any soldier returning from duty, the transition from military to civilian life can be challenging. By providing
veterans the opportunity to develop skills that will enhance their academic, social and professional success, you
can ensure a smooth and successful transition into the civilian workforce. During this Keynote Address, you will
learn to:
• Recognize the fundamentals of transitioning from a military job to a civilian job
• Identify the possible challenges for soldiers entering into the workforce
• Understand how the current economic situation affects veterans
10:00 11:15
Break and Refreshments Utilize Employment Resources to Actively Seek
Returning Veterans
10:15 • Discuss the resources that are available for
organizations to assist in the hiring of returning veterans
Create and Execute a Strategic Plan for
Your Short-Term and Long-Term Veteran • Use current best practices and disability management
Reintegration Strategy to help address the needs of veterans during their
reintegration back into civilian positions
• Create a strategic plan for the organization, dividing
• Discuss a lost of potential red flags that may indicate an
workforce goals into short-term and long-term initiatives
individual is struggling with reintegration
• Identify the strategies, goals and demonstrated results
that you want to outline Tony Cropper
• Develop unique ways to align your veteran reintegration State Veteran Representative, Virginia Department of
Veteran Services
workforce strategy with long term reachable goals
Angela Guidroz 12:15
National Recruitment Manager, Sodexo
Lunch Break
“Great energy, appropriate examples that
were transferable.”
BRIAN HOUGHTON, TALENT MANAGEMENT ANALYST, 3M
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3. Veteran Reintegration into the Workforce
Who
Day One (continued) Should
February 18, 2010
Attend:
1:15 • State and Local Workforce
Develop Skill Training Programs to Manage the Veteran Workforce Agencies
• Use continued education programs and mentoring to find workers interested and • Human Resource Directors
develop their skill sets
• Directors of Workforce
• Identify and provide valuable incentives to keep talented veterans at your
Planning
organization
• Implement career ladders to promote qualified employees and fill critical positions • One-Stop Administrators
in your organization and Operational Staff
Allen Bergeron • Job Corps Center Directors
Veterans Consultant, City of Austin Human Resources Department
• Directors of Organizational
Development and Career
2:15
Administration
Break and Refreshments
• Workforce Investment Program
Managers and Coordinators
2:30
Properly Translate Military Talent into Civilian Skills
• Clearly identify the person’s talents, skills and what motivates them
Top Five
• Encourage development of skills regarding information gathering and problem-solving Reasons to
through employment training
• Create an environment in which veterans can feel comfortable enough to seek Attend:
support due to transitional troubles or issues associated with military duty
1. Learn how to better
Matthew J. Cary serve veterans in the
National President, Veterans and Military Families for Progress reintegration process
2. Assist veterans in
3:30 overcoming the mental
Enable Veterans with Disabilities and physical challenges of
active duty
• Enable veterans with service-connected disabilities to become employable, and
obtain and maintain suitable employment 3. Prepare veterans to find
• Address the unique and specific needs of veterans with service-connected job success and stability
disabilities in order to help them transition to civilian life through vocational
• Identify benefit packages that rehabilitate veterans by focusing on their strengths rehabilitation
while remaining mindful of their wounds
4. Educate employers on the
Angela Guidroz value of hiring veterans
National Recruitment Manager, Sodexo
5. Enable veterans to
confidently integrate into
4:30
the civilian workforce
Day One Adjourns
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4. Veteran Reintegration into the Workforce
Day Two
February 19, 2010
8:30 11:15
Conference Registration and Continental Breakfast Understand the Veterans’ Workforce Investment
Program (VWIP)
9:00 • Identify how VWIP funding aids veterans
Reintegrate Veterans into the Workforce • Learn which organizations are eligible for VWIP funding
through Vocational Rehabilitation and how to obtain funding if currently ineligible
• Recognize the program features and activities required
The training and skills a soldier learns while in the military
for a competitively funded VWIP program
can prove to be valuable and effective in many civilian
vocations. When those skills are harnessed and developed, Bob Simpson
a veteran can successful find placement in a stable job Maryland Workforce Promise, Way Station Inc.
situation. During this Keynote Address, you will learn to:
• Access employment and training services veterans need 12:15
to re-enter the labor force Lunch Break
• Institute vocational assessments to assist in vocational
job placement decisions 1:15
• Make connections between military skills and Retain Veterans Integrated Into the Workforce
appropriate civilian jobs
• Create follow-up programs to keep track of veterans
currently in the workplace
10:00
• Identify opportunities for veterans to improve skills and
Break and Refreshments advance in the civilian workforce
• Remain up-to-date with the VA’s retention programs to
10:15 keep veterans informed
Reintegration Assistance for Homeless Veterans
2:15
• Harness productive life skills to aid homeless veterans in
work readiness Break and Refreshments
• Recognize resources and requirements determined by the
HVRP (homeless veterans reintegration program)
• Identify funding opportunities for your organization and
ways to obtain funding specifically for homeless veterans
Bob Simpson
Maryland Workforce Promise, Way Station Inc.
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5. Veteran Reintegration into the Workforce
Day Two (continued)
Sponsorship
February 19, 2010 Opportunities
2:30 As a conference and training
Engage Veterans in the Reintegration Process provider, The Performance
Institute is an expert in
• Create a sense empowerment in veterans to want to return to the civil workforce
bringing together leaders
• Develop ways to encourage veterans to actively participate in the reintegration
to share and discuss best
process
practices and innovations. We
• Maintain a positive outlook on reintegration despite a down economy
connect decision-makers with
Richie Whiteside respected solution providers.
Founder, Veteran Reintegration Center of Jacksonville
The Institute offers four different
3:30 pre-designed sponsorship
The One-Stop Career Center Approach packages:
to Reintegration
• Event Co-Sponsor
• Align your one-stop to provide employers with access to the veteran labor pool
• Session Sponsor
• Recruit, screen, and refer veterans ranging from entry-level workers to highly skilled
professionals • Luncheon Sponsor
• Screen veterans to ensure the right workers with the right skills are selected for • Exhibit Booth Sponsor
interviews
4:30 For more information on
Day Two Adjourns sponsorships or to get
started, contact Meredith
Mason at 202-739-9707
or Meredith.Mason@
PerformanceInstitute.org
“ I loved hearing what other
organizations are doing to
attract talent- great conference!”
KIM KOSTEK, U.S. ARMY
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6. Veteran Reintegration into the Workforce
Logistics & Registration
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A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Arlington Rosslyn Note: As speakers are confirmed six months before the event, some speaker changes or
Courtyard by Marriott at the prevailing rate of $209 until January topic changes may occur in the program. The Performance Institute is not responsible for
speaker changes, but will work to ensure a comparable speaker is located to participate
17, 2010. Please call the hotel directly and reference code “Veteran
in the program.
Reintegration” when making reservations to get the discounted rate. The
hotel is conveniently located three blocks from the Rosslyn Metro station. If for any reason The Performance Institute decides to cancel this conference, The
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Tuition & Group Discounts:
The tuition rate for attending the Veteran Reintegration into the Workforce
is as follows:
Offerings Early Bird Rate* Regular Rate
Conference $699 $799
*For the early bird rate, register by November 25, 2009.
For information about group discounts, please contact Melvin Hall at
202-739-9630 or Melvin.Hall@PerformanceInstitute.org
“ Very useful information from knowledgeable
and experienced speakers.”
CARMEN ORTIZ, HUMAN RESOURCES SPECIALIST, DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY
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