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The Military Transition Assistance Program (TAP)?
Are you aware that the existing Transition Assistance Program Does Not work?
military transition assistance - The Transition Assistance Program (TAP), that has been initiated in Congress back in the early 1990's, just isn't working. Proof that it's broken can be seen in unemployment rates among veterans to begin with, there is however something of greater importance. The transition assistance program doesn't continue what our all volunteer service promised; a lifetime of continued self-improvement.
Were you aware that chronic unemployment persists among former service members and at higher rates than equivalent demographic groups? Unemployment figures for returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans was at 21.6 % last year and continue to climb.
Were you aware that unemployment can trigger a worsening and progressively volitile manner leading to clinical depression and homelessness? Some estimates say veterans account for 25 to 40 % with the homeless population.
interview coaching - Are you aware that the concept of the transition assistance program, at its inception, did not have a “single” agency designated because of its ownership? No one wanted it. Three separate agencies were assigned responsibility for military transition: DOD, Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as the Department at work. Functional responsibility is given to 50 states. Money is transferred to each state to operate veterans' employment assistance centers at state employment agencies. The legislation diffuses program responsibility!
Finally, are you aware that every year, more than 200,000 military personnel re-enter civilian life from greater than 300 bases?
It is clear that doesn't only do we have trouble; an application that does not work. We have thousands and thousands of folks, who have served their country as well as their families which have supported them, left hung out to dry! There's been a dysfunction and there's a better method to assist our patriots.
The military or former military will be the only ones able to solving this issue. The military attracts a new person using the promise that service can lead to self-improvement. I recall when we accustomed to “pick-up” a fresh “mob” of recruits. To affirm our oath of commitment we would recite the Drill Instructor's Pledge. To the best of my memory it is going, “These recruits are entrusted to my care. I am going to train them to the very best of my ability. I'll develop them into smartly disciplined, physically fit, basically trained Marines thoroughly indoctrinated in love of Corps and country. I am going to need for them and demonstrate by my own example the greatest standards of private conduct, morality and professional skill.” The military fulfills its promise, and the service member is with an upward spiral of self-improvement - until a decision is created not to re-enlist.
interview coaching - When one decides to finish their service, everything changes. The service member turns into a short-timer. No longer associated with they, he/she is processed out and put into a systems and a world to “transition”. He/she goes home, alone and with no with the close cohesion, loyalty, camaraderie and self-knowledge he/she had being a part of probably the most effective teams in the world. That self-improvement procedure that began during recruitment and extended throughout active duty STOPS!
As a former active duty service member I give you a solution. Let's create an environment, composed of former service members, that first of all provides awareness, encouragement and like to our fellow patriots as well as their families. Let's provide resources and systems that empower them to take inventory of who they may be and what they want.
If something was learned while serving on active duty it was this, “We can confidently face and overcome adversity.” Let's remind our friends and family that everything they should be successful not in the military, they already possess inside.
