VETERANS SERVICES

Workforce Solutions of the Concho Valley has a Veterans Department that works daily, one-on-one with all veterans and disabled veterans.  They offer personalized service and prompt, personal attention helping veterans feel comfortable and relaxed, assisting in providing needed information and direction toward securing employment or training.

Program Services

• Intake and assessment
• Job development
• Referral to jobs
• Placement on jobs
• Case management, counseling, vocational guidance
• Training information
• Benefit information
• Employer relations
• Functional supervision of veteran's program
• Promoting employment and training opportunities
• Networking

Other Resources

Department of Veterans Affairs

Texas Veterans Commission
Texas Veterans Online

Tom Green County Veterans Service Office

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REINTEGRATION OF OFFENDERS (PROJECT RIO)

• Helps ex-offenders become productive tax-paying citizens.  (New prison construction costs an average of $25,000 per bed, equating to over $70 million dollars per new facility.)
   

• Provides suitable employment and training opportunities for ex-offenders.  (Unemployed releases are three times more likely to return to prison.)
   

• Promotes employment potential for ex-offenders by increasing public awareness.  (Seventy-five percent of the offender population is convicted for non-violent property crimes.)

Program Services

Employment Counseling

Job Workshops

Placement Services

• Intensive screening and evaluation
• Aptitude and proficiency testing
• Career guidance

• How to obtain and hold a job
• Preparing an application
• Resume and employment history summary
• Job interviewing skills
• Telephone techniques
• How to utilize community resources

• Individual job development
• Full-time employment
• Temporary employment

Program Benefits

Employer

Community

Ex-Offenders

• Support services to increase employment stability
• Offense screening to reduce risk
• Applicants are job-matched by employment skills
• Tax breaks through Work Opportunity Tax Credit
• Fidelity bonding upon request

• Improved public safety through the reduction of crime
• Better community image, which attracts conventions, retail trade and new businesses
• Reduced tax dollars for administration of criminal justice
• Decreased welfare and social service costs related to unemployment

• Access to legitimate means of income
• Intensive job referral
• Enhancement of employment potential

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AARP SENIOR EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM

AARP Senior Employment Program is America's oldest and largest provider of mature- and disadvantaged-worker training and employment.  They are a national non-profit corporation whose mission is to strengthen families, communities, and our nation by providing such individuals with opportunities to learn, work, and serve others.

Program Benefits

• Empowers older Americans to remain productive and independent by providing them with employment and training opportunities
  
• Provides vital community services to over 12,500 government and non-profit agencies
  
• Builds partnerships that expand services for the growing and diverse older population and changing workforce
  
• Offers employers experienced, dependable workers and cost effective job training