Vocational rehabilitation or accommodation for a workplace, they would get a doctor or someone to do an assessment and i would get a job and move forward, but it sounds to me this is something much harsher or sister viewing of the rating system. Is this because you are rated only as a veteran . I cant speak for all of them because i dont know whats available for a civilian but most of what are available to civilians are available to veterans. Its just a matter of that veteran being pointed in one direction. One thing we tend to do in communities is you are a veteran, go to this veteran place. Its not only can you get this, you can get that. Dont worry about your status being veteran or not. Depends on how you define veteran or whose definition you are going by, you may or may not be a veteran. There is a lot of gray area, but conversations like this and committee and Councils Like this are helping to bridge that gap and we are more mindful in bringing ibs to issues to the forefront. Th
Good afternoon, chairman, council, all the councilmembers, my name is latonia dixon, i am the president of the San Francisco Veterans Alliance club and im also disabled veteran. I have pts with anxiety and my rating was pretty high as well, but i wanted to speak about the jobs and i guess mostly actually housing in the medical benefit. Housing, i was told by many veterans that there is difficulty in getting housing if they have pet or their service dogs, so i guess i was trying to find out if there is anyway, especially now like there are a lot of apartments they are not allowing pets or service dogs into their apartments, so thats even more difficult for a veteran or people with disabilities to even get housing and im trying to see if there is anyway possible that maybe swords of plow shares or ilrc if there is a listing or something that can help the veteran so they can go to different places to find so they wont be stressing out especially those that have pts like me. The other thin
Where we discuss our programs and other Community Based organizations that support veterans in the local area. We recommend how they can recruit and outreach to veterans besides the current avenues their conducting by obtaining job fares by partnering with transition service, with Service Academies and utilizing social networks and creating web pages that show the desirable skills they are looking for any employee and we recommend they partner with Veterans Service providers in the area like swords. With that, when you partner with us, we can review their materials and show to recommend best practices on being veteran friendly and outreach to more specific sections of veterans if they are looking for women veterans, officers, enlisted, new eras, etc and we can give recommendation for the process for how to best ask those skills that employers are looking for out of their potential employees with being aware of their military experience and not stepping over personal bounds. And with th
From the Mental Health association where they deal with issues like depression, anxiety, irritability, ptsd, those are all the same types of conditions that the previous speaker enumerated that are plaguing veterans, combat veterans. Therefore here is the connection between the Mental Health community and the disability communities all advocating for equal rights especially in the workplace. Absolutely. More connections. Yes, maam. Any other comments . No. Well save the Public Comments after the third presentation. Thank you. Next for information item no. 9. Policy recommendations for employers higher veterans. Strategic partnerships associate. Good afternoon, my name is kevin miller a partner associate with swords of plow shares. Today i will cover social barriers for veterans for disability rating as being the conduit not necessarily identifying being a disabled person and cover disabilities, post Traumatic Stress and tbi and recommendation for hiring managers and what they should fo
Experience as a civilian with disability. For example if i was a civilian with disability going to the station on howard for seeking a job or vocational rehabilitation or accommodation for a workplace, they would get a doctor or someone to do an assessment and i would get a job and move forward, but it sounds to me this is something much harsher or sister viewing of the rating system. Is this because you are rated only as a veteran . I cant speak for all of them because i dont know whats available for a civilian but most of what are available to civilians are available to veterans. Its just a matter of that veteran being pointed in one direction. One thing we tend to do in communities is you are a veteran, go to this veteran place. Its not only can you get this, you can get that. Dont worry about your status being veteran or not. Depends on how you define veteran or whose definition you are going by, you may or may not be a veteran. There is a lot of gray area, but conversations like t