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Zane Jones Veterans Services Coordinator 77 N. Front St. Columbus, OH 43215

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Veterans receive priority service at Ohio Means Jobs. Our goal is to shorten the gap between a return from service and your next employment opportunity.  

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Through a variety of employment services, we aim to help all veterans and veterans’ spouses overcome unemployment and underemployment. State Veterans Employment Representatives provide intensive services to veterans to address employment barriers and facilitate the hiring process. For those veterans who are ineligible for state services, the OhioMeansJobs Columbus-Franklin County staff offers career advice and job search assistance. When you connect with us, please identify yourself as a veteran so that we can engage our individualized Veteran Employment Services.

Employer Engagement

Our OhioMeansJobs Columbus-Franklin County Business Services staff works with employers to facilitate employment placement or workforce services to ensure that veterans receive maximum access to training and other opportunities. Their primary role is employer outreach on behalf of veterans including:​

• Working with other service organizations to promote the advantages of hiring veterans to employers and employer groups.
• Marketing job-seeking veterans as individuals who have highly marketable skills and experience.
• Advocating for veterans with business, industry and other community-based organizations.
• Job development efforts to increase job opportunities for veterans through direct employer contact.
• Planning and participating in job and career fairs.

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Transitioning to civilian life can be challenging. Veterans in Ohio have an edge in finding their next career. Find resources and access to jobs posted specifically for veterans on  www.ohiomeansveteransjobs.com

Veteran Priority of Service

“Priority of Service” means, with respect to any qualified job training program, a covered person is given priority over a non-covered person for employment, training, and placement services provided under the program.

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Veteran Housing

Veterans Resource Center: a stable transitional living environment with individual case management and programs that are designed to help move veterans into employment and independent housing.

At Volunteers of America Ohio & Indiana, we work with local communities and national service organizations to provide comprehensive assistance for veterans in our communities. One area of assistance we proudly provide is veteran housing. Learn how the Veterans Resource Center can help you or a loved one, and find out how you can donate today to help end veteran homelessness in your area.

Our support for veterans comes in a variety of ways. First, we offer comprehensive veteran services throughout both Ohio and Indiana to assist veterans with a range of housing, mental health, and employment services. There are housing units available throughout these two states with availability for formerly homeless veterans to receive the assistance they need.

Each veteran has a unique housing situation, so our services need to reflect the diverse needs in our area. Here are just a few ways our Ohio and Indiana veteran services help match homeless veterans with housing solutions:

• Rapid rehousing
• Homeless prevention services
• Permanent supportive housing
• Emergency housing
• Information and assistance about house loans for veterans

Each service was designed with local veteran needs in mind. If individuals are experiencing mental health issues that may have caused them to become homeless, we match those individuals with trained and experienced mental health professionals who are experienced with veteran needs.

Housing assistance comes in many forms, depending on individual needs. Some veterans can purchase or improve their home with a generous VA housing loan. Others require emergency housing and a supportive housing team.

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Volunteers of America Ohio & Indiana offer a range of donation options to help support your local community. Whether you wish to donate to support the entire organization or to make a specific donation to the veteran housing program, here are some easy ways you can donate today:

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Whether you make a single donation or become a lifelong partner with us, any assistance is greatly appreciated. Your time and/or donations allow us to continue to provide comprehensive housing services to veterans throughout Ohio and Indiana.

Join Us Today

Whether you wish to donate, volunteer, or you need to access our housing services for yourself or a loved one, contact us today. Our veteran housing services offer hope and safe housing throughout your local community, and your generous assistance can help us reach our goal of ending homelessness among our veterans.

Our veteran housing programs offer a path for veterans to end homelessness using cutting-edge techniques for this unique population such as intensive case management, clinical treatment, and peer support.

Liberty Landing 2833 S. Calhoun St. Fort Wayne, Indiana 46807  T: (260) 755-6154 | F: (260) 755-6184  The Richard Lugar Safe Haven 2424 Fairfield Ave. Fort Wayne, Indiana 46807 T: (260) 387-5295

As a “Housing First” program veterans do not need to make an initial commitment to sobriety/substance-free living, but are expected to work with their case manager toward a lifestyle conducive to stable housing.

Indianapolis

Lincoln Apartments 530 North Holmes Avenue  Indianapolis, Indiana 46222  T: 317.672.7585 ext. 104 

This apartment complex provides affordable housing for formerly homeless veterans.

Brandon Hall 611 N. Capitol Ave. Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 T: (317) 686-9841

This program is  accredited  by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).  

Chambers Park 4343 S. Lincoln Blvd  Marion, Indiana 46953  T: (765) 573-5381

7938 Hamilton Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45231 Tel: (513) 322-5170

775 E. 152 Street Cleveland, Ohio 44110 Tel: (216) 541-9000

624 Harmon Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43223 Tel: (614) 849-0145

Fifteen emergency shelter beds are also available for eligible veterans. This program has been certified by the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services.

4100 W. Third Street, Building 400 P.O. Box 28047 Dayton, Ohio 45428 Tel: (937) 253-7042

On the Veterans Affairs Medical Center Campus. This program is  accredited  by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).  

1843 Superior Street Sandusky, Ohio 44870 Tel: (419) 626-6505

'Felt like a fish out of water': Organization works to help veterans transition from service to civilian life

CINCINNATI — On this Memorial Day weekend, one veteran organization says it's honoring and remembering the fallen while making sure those who make it back aren't forgotten either.

"Sept. 11, 2001, happened my senior year of high school, so that was kind of my call to action," Chris Newsome said. "There's a lot of growing to do, and the Army really forces you down a pipeline of growth and leadership and maturity."

Newsome enlisted in the U.S. Army after graduating from Anderson High School. He completed his basic training at Fort Moore (formerly Fort Benning). Then, he completed advanced individual training and airborne school, where he would become a member of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg).

He served in Afghanistan in 2003 and in Iraq twice in 2004 and 2005-2006, where he served in combat operations as an infantry paratrooper. Once his military service was over, Newsome admits it was a struggle transitioning from military to civilian life.

"I was grateful for the work I could find, but it definitely wasn't a career launch pad," Newsome said.

For him, it was not only a struggle translating his skills from what he learned in the military to civilian life, but it was a struggle fitting into a new world.

"I felt like a fish out of water to an extent," Newsome said. "When you take off the uniform for the last time these are the realities."

He worked some odd jobs, but Newsome felt like he lost his purpose.

"Handful of months prior to that, I was leading patrols in Iraq and to go from that to what I considered, at the time, to be kind of a professional step backwards, that's when I realized I need to advocate for myself, I need to make myself marketable as humanly possible, and more importantly than anything, I needed to find a role, a company that spoke to me kind of culturally," said Newsome.

Then he would find RecruitMilitary, a recruiting firm that helps veterans find careers after life in the military. The staff helps veterans not only find work that's best for them, but helps them with buliding their resumes and interviewing for jobs.

"Our community is very proud they're not always going to lead by saying I need help)," said Newsome.

He also told us some veterans have a difficult time articulating their military skills into everyday lingo on a resume. For example, Newsome was part of 11 Bravo, but if you were to write that on a resume, it translates to infantry soldier. It's those minor changes he feels can make all the difference for a veteran landing an interview.

"We have all of these great skill sets these great attributes, but it is on us to be able to vocalize those and articulate that to the recruiter at the other end of that conversation to make them understand why we are the right fit," Newsome said.

His new mission is helping veterans realize they've had it in them all along.

"Part of what we have to do as veterans as a community to honor the fallen is to live our best lives," Newsome said. "Part of living our best lives is making sure that we're caring for our families, starting them, nurturing them, being productive members of our community, having a professional career, living the best version of our lives that we can to honor those who no longer can."

Newsome's final piece of advice to veterans is to never sell themselves short.

"Don't go out there and just get some random job, get a career, be the most awesome version of yourself that you can possibly be," said Newsome.

You can learn more about what RecruitMilitary can do for veterans here .

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Memorial Day ceremony honors fallen heroes at National Veterans Memorial and Museum

by Stacia Naquin

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Memorial Day gathered veterans, service members, families, dignitaries, and community members for a Remembrance Ceremony at the National Veterans Memorial and Museum in an effort to honor all those who gave their last measure of devotion in service to our country.

“We are here to say their names and celebrate their lives,” said Bill Butler, U.S. Army, retired Colonel and Acting President of the National Veterans Memorial and Museum.

ALSO | Ohio memorial honoring families of fallen service members to be dedicated in Columbus

Monday’s ceremony included a flyover of two F16s from the 180th Fighter Wing with the Ohio Air National Guard, as well as an honorary volley fire from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Honor Guard, with the 122nd Army Band Brass Quintet playing an Armed Forces Medley, among other patriotic songs.

The keynote speaker secretary, Patrick J. Murphy, America’s first war veteran elected to the U.S. Congress and the 32nd under Secretary of the US Army, shared a message of hope and the importance of paying tribute to our fallen soldiers and their families.

“It means the world to their families,” said Murphy in his address. “It means the world to those angels, those warriors up in heaven.”

Murphy, along with Tara Harris, Gold Star Child and keynote speaker at Sunday’s candlelight vigil, took part in the ceremonial wreath laying. Harris’s father, 1st Sergeant Glenn Harris of B Company, 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, was killed in a training accident barely 1 year after returning home from the battle of Mogadishu, Somalia, in October 1993.

Her father’s name was one of many spoken out loud during the ceremony, in the tradition of honoring those lost, as the attendees are encouraged to recognize those on Memorial Day who we will not forget.

“In saying their names, let us all pass along the true meaning of Memorial Day to the next generations so their names continue to be spoken with love, with honor, and with a debt of gratitude,” said Butler.

Gerrymandering a threat to Ohio veterans, Gold Star families. "We know the price of freedom.

Columbus real estate developer Scott W. Patton is a member of a Gold Star family and combat veteran that served in the 101st Airborne Division, 82nd Airborne Division, 5th Special Forces Group and 19th Special Forces Group.

As we celebrate Memorial Day Monday and honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country, it's imperative to reflect on the importance of fair representation and the integrity of our electoral system.

The recent gerrymandering in Ohio, one of the most manipulated states in the nation, has undermined the democratic process and the will of the people. It's time for a change, and the Citizens Not Politicians Amendment offers a promising solution.

This is a time when we honor and remember those who died while serving in the country’s armed forces. For most citizens, it marks the start of summer, celebrated with backyard cookouts and evening fireworks across the nation.

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It’s a long weekend for gathering with friends and family in the warmth of late spring. Some will attend their community's parades to honor our military and its ranks that have fallen in service to the country. Most have not served nor felt the grief that the ultimate sacrifice brings to the families of lost service members: mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters dead and lost to this life. My family is such a family.

We know the price of freedom.

We understand personal loss.

For the last fifteen years, we have observed Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery.

I will be there Monday, remembering the life of my brother and the lives of my brothers-in-arms buried near him. The sacrifice of their lives while preserving our freedoms—the right to vote, equality of opportunity for all citizens, and the rule of law—demands that citizens, not legislators, determine the future direction of our state and country.

According to The USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, Ohio is one of the most gerrymandered states in the nation.

Between January and May 2022, the Ohio Supreme Court struck down five separate iterations of the legislative maps, each time ruling that the maps were unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders.

Despite the state Supreme Court siding with the pro-voting groups on five separate occasions and requiring redraws of the maps, the Ohio Redistricting Commission failed to submit constitutionally compliant maps to the court. As a result, Ohioans voted under unconstitutional legislative maps during the 2022 midterm elections.

Politicians and back-room insiders disregarded the court and the will of the people by repeatedly submitting maps that were rejected as unconstitutional. Then, in 2023, politicians from both parties met behind closed doors and struck a deal to impose new gerrymandered maps.

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Establishment politicians have proven that they cannot be trusted to draw fair legislative districts using an open and transparent process. A broad nonpartisan coalition of Ohio citizens has come together to end gerrymandering by proposing the Citizens Not Politicians Amendment to our state constitution.

The proposed legislation would replace the current politician-dominated commission with a 15-member Ohio Citizens Redistricting Commission that would include Republican, Independent, and Democratic voters. It bans current and recent political officeholders, those with strong political ties, and lobbyists from drawing maps and makes it unconstitutional to draw maps that favor one party.

Petitioners must collect 413,487 valid voter signatures by July 3, 2024, to place it on the 2024 general election ballot. Signing those petitions would be a patriotic and honorable way to remember the sacrifice of those who have fought to protect our representative form of government. 

I am a combat veteran who fought for my country on foreign lands, believing that I was sacrificing for the greater cause of preserving freedoms given and maintained by constitutional rule of law. The effects of gerrymandering impact how my vote is counted and have enhanced divisions where compromise is seen as weakness, creating a political environment reminiscent of the Cold War acronym MAD (mutual assured destruction). 

The eyes of the fallen, who perished preserving the right to vote, are watching.

Politicians can’t look beyond their personal or their party’s interests. I support the amendment because I believe citizens, not politicians, should draw district maps to safeguard our right to fair elections and representative government on this Memorial Day and beyond.

Columbus real estate developer  Scott W. Patton is a member of a Gold Star family and combat veteran that served in the 101st Airborne Division, 82nd Airborne Division, 5th Special Forces Group and 19th Special Forces Group.