From gleaning more info on how to start or grow a business and seek employment to navigating benefits, searching for the best bets on where to go to school, and the solutions to overall veterans issues, IVMF has programs for you. In this resource guide:

1. Resource Guide & Directories

2. Education & Training

3. Employment

4. Entrepreneurship

5. Veterans with Disabilities

RESOURCE GUIDE & DIRECTORIES:

Navigating Government Benefits & Employment: A Guidebook for Veterans with Disabilities offers information on governmental benefits that are available to veterans and their families via this four-part guide.

IVMF Voices acts as a forum for the veteran and military family community to share information, express opinions and engage in a dialogue that focuses on issues and challenges facing veterans in America.

IVMF Partners and professionals deliver class-leading programs in career, vocational and entrepreneurship education and training. It’s a way for service members, veterans and their families to gain the skills needed to be successful in education, work and life.

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EDUCATION & TRAINING:

The Syracuse University Veterans’ Resource Center, housed at University College, provides services that student veterans need as they pursue higher education, from recruitment to degree completion.

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EMPLOYMENT:

The Veteran Career Transition Program is a free, online, non-credit certificate for veterans. The program is comprised of four certificates in Career Skills for Global Enterprises, Microsoft Office Fundamentals, Applied Education and Applied Practicum, all delivered in advisor-led groups and through independent study tracks.

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP:

Operation Boots to Business: From Service to Startup, a program offered to transitioning service members in cooperation with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), begins during transition from service (TAP or TAMP) and can continue if the individual self-selects further training.

Operation Endure & Grow (E&G) is an eight-week online training experience in cooperation with the SBA focused on the fundamentals of launching and/or growing a small business.

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VETERANS WITH DISABILITIES:

The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) is a one-of-a-kind training in entrepreneurship and small business management for post-9/11 veterans with service-connected disabilities. The three-phase program is available to 250 participants per year across eight universities through a unique combination of online and in-person instruction.

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