Resources for Veterans and Businesses
Resources
As our primary focus at NASA Education is to provide assistance to Veterans, we will be regularly adding resources for Veterans looking for work, as well as other Veteran related information. Check back often for updates.
Articles
- Parenting Tips for Returning Veterans with Physical or Emotional Injuries
- Preventing Suicide
- PTSD Cases Up About 50 Percent in 2007
- Homeless Veteran's Fact Sheet
Medical Facilities
Federal Resources
- CareerOneStop - Employment and career resources
- Department of Labor - Main site
- Department of Labor Homeless Veterans' Reintegration Program (HVRP)
- Food Stamps
- Government Job Search
- Health and Human Services Homeless Home Page
- Housing and Urban Development Homeless page
- Social Security Administration - Information on Social Security records as well as Social Security Disability and SSI
- United States Government's Official Web Portal
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Community Resources
- American Bar Association - Links to legal assistance
- Corporation for Supportive Housing - Technical assistance for housing providers
- Mental Health America - Information about mental health and links to referral resources
- National Alliance on Mental Illness - Support for people living with mental illness
- National Alliance to End Homelessness - Policy analysis and policy solutions to end homelessness
- National Coalition for the Homeless - Links to housing and service resources
- National Health Care for the Homeless Council - Healthcare clinicians' directory of healthcare providers
- National H.I.R.E. Network - Helping Individuals with criminal records Reenter through Employment Network
- Pine Tree Legal Assistance - Links to free legal assistance
- The Salvation Army - Faith-based social services
- United Way - Links to local social service resources
- Volunteers of America - Faith-based social services
- Women in Community Service - Serves low-income women moving from incarceration back to the community
Links
- Board of Veterans' Appeals and CARES Commission
- Center for Minority Veterans
- Center for Women Veterans
- Center for Veterans Enterprise
- Department of Human Services
- Directory of Veterans Service Organizations
- Disability Examination Worksheets Index, Comp
- Electronic Code of Federal Regulations
- Environmental Agents
- Evaluation Protocol for Gulf War and Iraqi Freedom Veterans with Potential Exposure to Depleted Uranium
- Evaluation Protocol for NON-Gulf War Veterans with Potential Exposure to Depleted Uranium
- Fidelity Bonding Program for Ex-offenders
- Information for Businesses on Tax Credits Available
- McHenry County Housing Authority
- McHenry County PADS
- McHenry County Veterans Assistance Commission
- McHenry County Illinois Department of Employment Security Veterans Employment Rep
- My Healthe Vet Website
- National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
For more information about NASA Education, contact Amy Johnson, Program Director, at 866-EDU-4YOU (866-338-4968) or send an email to Amy_Johnson@nasaeducation.org