(San Diego – May 27) A San Diego-grown nonprofit group that helps veterans move from boots into suits is expanding nationally. Reboot started in 2010 when retired Navy veterans Ronne Froman and Maurice Wilson saw former sailors and Marines struggling to figure out their place in the civilian world. Their idea: Just like boot camp
Author: Maurice Wilson
Results-driven visionary with 20 years experience driving dramatic results in the non-profit community-based organization social services sector. Consistently overcomes complex business challenges and makes high-stakes decisions within fast-paced, high-pressure environments using experience-backed judgment, innovation, strong work ethic, humor, and irreproachable integrity. Specialties: Communication, organizational development, planning, business development, collaboration, social networks, marketing, fundraising, fiscal management and implementation.
(VIRGINIA BEACH – By David Todd, The Flagship Managing Editor) National Veteran Transition Services, Inc. (NVTSI), a non-profit organization who developed the no-cost 15-day, three-week REBOOT transition workshops, graduated 10 individuals from its first East Coast class at Tidewater Community College (TCC) campus in Virginia Beach, May 24. The workshop included active duty service members from commands
(Hampton Roads – May 23) Story by David Todd, The Flagship. Making the transition from military-to-civilian life can be a difficult challenge for many of our nation’s heroes. Topics such as employment, education, adjusting to new social environments and even living arrangements can leave some service members and their families in a situation of unfamiliarity.
(IRVINE – May 6) Rio Caras calls himself a middleman between civilians and boot camp. The 32-year-old Orange resident spends his days running a Carson-based Navy recruiting station, talking to young men and women, presenting them with an option to enter the military and work within the structure it provides. But Caras took a step
The San Diego-based nonprofit has aided nearly 700 service members/veterans since 2010 founding. Posted by Hoa Quách (Editor), May 7, 2013 When Edward Erickson completes 20 years in the Navy on May 31—he’ll be ready for corporate America, he says. Erickson—who has served in Kuwait and Iraq—said he’ll be ready because he recently graduated from REBOOT, a 3-week program
Join veterans as they journey from service oriented to personally motivated to succeed as civilians while attending the REBOOT workshop. Posted by Krishna M Jackson, March 4, 2013 I am sharing my blog, Veterans REBOOT Lives, to get the word out about a wonderful program that helps veterans with the transition to civilian life. Here’s a taste Getting the
Empowered UCLA Extension is offering a complimentary online course plus career counseling to any recently honorably discharged U.S. service member or active service member, including their eligible family members.
First Lady Michelle Obama’s office Thursday entered the debate over the growing military sexual assaults scandal now plaguing the Pentagon by joining in a meeting with 16 members of Congress at the White House. According to Politico, the lawmakers, most of them women, were there to discuss the issue with White House senior adviser Valerie
A decade of sustained combat operations and the resultant pressure they have placed on military members and their families is taking a deadly toll on the nation’s armed forces, particularly the U.S. Army, which has seen record-high suicide rates in 2012, according to Pentagon figures.