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Welcome to Colorado ESGR. Our purpose is to have an informative newsletter that will educate, inforWelcome to Colorado ESGR. Our purpose is to have an informative newsletter that will educate, inforWelcome to Colorado ESGR. Our purpose is to have an informative newsletter that will educate, inforand promote service by and to ESGR while fulfilling our mission of supporting Employers, Guard/Reserand promote service by and to ESGR while fulfilling our mission of supporting Employers, Guard/Reserand promote service by and to ESGR while fulfilling our mission of supporting Employers, Guard/Resermembers, Military and Veteran Employment Initiatives and our COESGR Volunteers.members, Military and Veteran Employment Initiatives and our COESGR Volunteers.members, Military and Veteran Employment Initiatives and our COESGR Volunteers.
January 2014
Chairmans Message:
State of Colorado ESGR for Year 2013
As we enter into Year 2014, I would like to report to you on howESGR did in this past year. And in my hopefully unbiased way, Ithink we did pretty well. But we still have a ways to go.
On most of our metrics that we are measured by, we did extremelywell. Our ESGR Volunteer base continued to grow, as did ourVolunteer Hours. We are working to improve on the number ofGuard and Reserve that we brief, and in our Ombudsman efforts,as those were our two areas that we need to improve upon.
With the Freedom Award, we were the only state to have all threeof our nominees in the top 30 finalists (out of some 2889nominees), and two of those were selected for the prestigiousFreedom Award. We are very proud of our two winners: DaVita,Inc, and Colorado Springs Utilities, and finishing in the top thirty is
not exactly bad either, for JGMS, of Grand Junction.
We were heavily involved in helping our Guard and Reserve members in their employment efforts. Weorganized and helped structure and run two of our three day Military and Veterans EmploymentEXPOs, one in Denver in January 2013, and the other in Colorado Springs in May of 2013. Werecently distributed our Report on the five MVEEs that we have held during the last two years, andare satisfied that the results we have obtained from these events, usually servicing over 1000 Guardand Reserve, active duty military, retired, and spouses at each, are significantly much better than thetypical job fairs so many put on or better in fact than any other type of hiring event that we are awareof.
OurAnnual Awards Banquet continued to draw close to 400 guests, with this year being honored byhaving our ESGRs new National Chairman, Mr. Paul Mock, in attendance, speaking at the Banquet
and remaining for our Saturdays Volunteer Conference. We are already planning this years Banquetfor May 30, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency in the Tech Center, again with several top notch speakers.The following day (Saturday, May 31) is our once a year All Volunteer Conference, and this year weare pushing hard on a greater turnout of our Volunteers, as this is the only time during a year wherewe try to get all our Volunteers together.
We started this year to hold a leadershipcourse for those ESGR Volunteers who aspire to play moreleading roles in ESGR. The day and a half event was attended by some 20 Colorado ESGRVolunteers who applied to attend, as well as two ESGR Volunteers from Wyoming. We think there isvalue in having Volunteers from surrounding states attend which brings about cross fertilization ofideas and approaches. We are going to do this again this year, with the dates being now selected.
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We are trying very hard to work with more employers and are achieving some success. We wanthose employers to not only support and value the employment and military service of the NationaGuard and Reserve in the United States, but to realize and utilize the employment services availableto them from governmental entities that they are already funding through their taxes which wireduce their costs in hiring and retaining employees.
So through individual contacts with more of our Colorado employers, through our MVEEs, througour meetings with the BOSS program and our BOSSLIFTs, through our Awards Banquet and otheemployer meetings, through our growing efforts of publicizing our efforts, through continuing toexpand our reach throughout the state by having ESGR Area Chairs now in some 11 localities (andsoon to grow to 13), and through the dedicated and substantial efforts of our ESGR Volunteers, wecontinue to make real progress here in Colorado.
To your employers, thank you working with us, for supporting our efforts, and for realizing the valuethat our military service members bring to your workplace.
So for all our ESGR Volunteers, a most sincere thank you. You can take full credit for the advancewe have and are making.
Dick Youn g, RADM, USN (Ret)
Chairman, Colorado State Employer Sup port o f the Guard and Reserve
Dawanta Parks, an enthusiastic new member of Employer Supporof the Guard and Reserve, has been recognized as volunteer othe month. Accepting the position of Co-Director of EmploymenInitiatives, he brings extensive experience as a veteran and as anadministrator, being presently employed as Veterans
Representative for the Colorado Department of Labor anEmployment. In fact, working with this department is where he firslearned about ESGR.
Separating from the military as Army Infantry Staff SergeanDawanta Parks, he comes to us as a veteran himself. With eleveservice years in the Oklahoma Army National Guard which he
joined after a high school membership in the Air Force ROTC, heknows first hand the veterans pride along with the trials and tribulations. He is a two time combaveteran: Bosnia,2001-2001, and Afghanistan, 2002-2003.
After service to our country, he followed up with an impressive set of educational achievements inthe areas which would enable him to reach his goals. He holds an Associates Degree iManagement from Oklahoma State University; a Bachelors Degree in Administrative Leadershipfrom the University of Oklahoma; a Masters Degree in Human Relations from the University oOklahoma; a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Denver; and is planning topursue yet anotherAdvanced Administrative Strategic Human Resources.
Parks says that his decision to join ESGR was motivated by the desire to help veterans find workand that his time in the military imparted in him the NCOs values he carries with him today specifically, to support military personnel in their endeavors and he lives by the model that it iextremely important that we take care of our veterans in helping them to find employment.
We at ESGR feel sure that volunteering with this organization will help him reach his goals, and thahis expertise and dedication will be of definite value to our group.
January 2014, Volunteer of the Month Spotlight
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Jobs program connects Reserve, Guardmembers to employers
BYDONNAMILES, AMERICANFORCESPRESSSERVICE
WASHINGTONTwo years ago, the civilian employment situatiofor members of the National Guard and reserve was bleak.
The economy had taken a downturn, causing unemployment ratenationwide to rise, including rates for veterans. But particularlytroubling to Ronald Young, executive director of Employer Support o
the Guard and Reserve, was that unemployment among reserve component members hit a record highof 13 percent in 2011.
It was higher than for the general population and almost double that of the veteran population,Young said. So we took a very aggressive approach to instituting employment initiative
programs across the country to get at that challenge.
The cornerstone of that effort was the Hero 2 Hired program, created to make it easy foreserve-component service members to connect to and find jobs with military-friendly companies.
We put together a comprehensive program that used a very high -tech approach, Young saidincluding online career exploration tools, military-to-civilian skills translations, education and training
resources and even a mobile app.To support the program, 56 employment transition coordinators, many of them ESGR volunteers, fanneout to every corner of the United States to provide career counseling and resume assistance to
job-seekers and to interface with employers seeking to fill positions.
We saw this as an opportunity to leverage the 4,900 ESGR volunteers and their day-to-dainterface with emp loyers to talk about wh at great business sense it makes to employ Guard and
reserve members,Young said.
In addition, a vehicle known as the Hero 2 Hired mobile job store regularly rolls into career fairs andother venues to deliver the job search resources where its easily accessible by the military communitySmall kiosks that rotate between Guard and reserve units also help increase awareness of the program.
Guard and reserve members make great employees, Young said. Theyre strong leaders andoutstanding followers, exhibiting loyalty, dedication and motivation to their missions. They demonstrateother attributes that employers are clamoring for: professionalism, responsibility, punctuality, a can-doattitude, understanding of diversity and an ability to remain calm under pressure, among them.
But when Young met with corporate leaders during a Clinton Global Initiative session in 2011, herecognized that employers didnt know how to tap into this potential.
Across the board, the one thing they said was, We want to hire them. We just dont know howto get access to them, he said.
Two years since its standup, Hero 2 Hired is helping to bridge that gap. Almost 20,000 employers nowpost their job announcements on the Hero 2 Hired jobs website. The site, which 151,000 servicmembers and their spouses now use, provides not only leads about job openings but also information
about interview skills, resume templates and links to employment resources.
Young attributes more than 11,000 hires to the program. In addition, through Hero 2 Hire's partnershipwith the Joining Forces initiative led by First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden, wife of VicePresident Joe Biden, and other public- and private-sector job programs, he estimates that 100,000reserve component members and veterans have landed jobs.
This is a way to link together those looking for jobs and those looking to fill jobs with veteransand Guard and reserve members, Young said. We are just one of the contributing partnersworking at attacking this particular issue. But we believe we are having a definite impact.
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A recent DOD survey of Guard and reserve members revealed that their unemployment rate hadropped 2 percent, Young reported.
So this is trending in the right direction, and our hope is that it will continue going that way, hsaid.
But the best measure of success, he said, are the testimonials of those who have benefitted directly fromthe program.
A 23-year old Air National Guard member was desperate for a job -- any job -- when he met wit
Employment Transition Coordinator Joe Fletcher. The airman had been living in his car for the previousthree days to help save money for gas to return home after a drill weekend. He acknowledged during hismeeting with Fletcher that he didnt have a resume or knew how to pursue a job interview.
Fletcher helped him create a resume that highlighted his skills in welding and operating heavy equipmenand helped him prepare for an interview. It didnt take long for the airman to land a job that paid $30 anhour.
A former airmen who started using the Hero 2 Hired job website before separating from the military saidit worked better than any other employment site he had tried. As a result, he landed a position as a shifmaintenance supervisor for a commercial airline with a starting date just six days after leaving themilitary.
A Louisiana National Guardsman said Hero 2 Hired helped him get in contact with several companies ovarying sizes, getting interview opportunities and several job offers.Sue Wegner, wife of Army Chief Warrant Officer 4 Ralph Wegner, credited the program with helping heobtain a job as a laboratory test specialist.
You helped me with rewrit ing my resume in a mo re emp loyer-fr iendly way, along w ith helpingwith interview tips, she said. Thanks to you, I had great success. Within two weeks of leavingyou, I had two job interviews, and a week later I had job offers from [two] companies!
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F O L L OW T H E S E L IN K S T O L E A R N MOR E A B OU T T H E L AW :
USERRA: 38 United States Code Chapter 4301-4335
20 Code of Federal Regulations Part 1002 (USERRA) Uniformed Services Employ-ment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994; Final Rules
5 Code of Federal Regulations Part 353 Additional regulations for Federal Agencies
Non Technical Guide to USERRA
US Department of Labor Veterans Employment and Training Service
Department of Justice
Office of Special Council
US Department of Education: USERRA like protection for students in the military
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Colorado ESGR volunteer and Area Chair for thePueblo area, Harry Vogel, presented to April Lopez,Director of Volunteer Services, Frontier Hospice in
Pueblo with a Statement of Support
Frontier Hospice
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Frontier Home Health
Steve Wilbur, GM of Toy Car Care, receives aSoS from Military Outreach Coordinator MarkCraig. Steve has a life time affiliation with themilitary being raised by a WWII veteran andSteves son has served in the Marine Corps. Oneof Steves employees served in the ArmyNational Guard as a helicopter mechanic. Whentalking with Steve it is very evident that heunderstands and appreciates the sacrificesmilitary members and their families make insupport of us all.
Enstrom Candies of Grand Junction wasrecognized recently with a Statement of Support inrecognition of their support of military servicemembers and their families. The staff has beenvery generous with their produc ts and programs
to benef i t service members who have been
deployed overseas, said Dea Bridges, a volunteerwith Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve,who presented the award.Enstrom was previously recognized by militarycommands in Afghanistan for its generosity, Bridgessaid.
Pictured left to right, Dea Bridges, ESGR volunteeDarla Fortner, Human Resources Director, JameSimons, Secretary-treasurer, and Doug Simons
President. Photo courtesy of the Grand Junction DaiSentinel.
Statement of SupportStatement of Support
(SOS) Signings(SOS) Signings
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In the picture from left to right:
Jordan McCarty is the owner of Bender's BraHaus,700 South Buckley Road Aurora. Bender'has been around since 1976 and was originally o6th and Chambers. Their location now is closer tBuckley Air Force Base and they do a lot obusiness with personnel from Buckley. She ha
different promotions for military members anusually it is a 10% discount on food purchased. you can't make a quick trip to Germany, these arabout the best you will find anywhere. Their bratare freshly made each day and are Sheboygarecipe bratwurst. Once you try one, you will bback!The presentation was made by ESGR VolunteeMark Craig (right)
A Statement of Support presented to Benders Brat Haus.
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HOW YOUR COMPANY CAN BECOME A FREEDOM AWARD RECIPIENT
Tom Bullock, Chief, Employer & Military Outreach at Employer Support of the Guard and
Reserve (ESGR)
The Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award is thhighest award bestowed by the U.S. Government to employers fexceptional support of their employees who serve in the NationGuard or Reserve. Encourage your employees currently serving, orfamily member acting on their behalf, to nominate your company www.freedomaward.mil. The nomination season closes at midnigon January 20, 2014.
NORAD Tracks Santa Program b reaks record
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (12/27/13) - The North American AerospaceDefense Command's NORAD Tracks Santa Program exceeded its own records in thenumber of calls, emails and social media followers this year. The program, which beganafter a misprinted ad in a local paper in 1955, has more than 1,200 volunteers andNORAD staff answering queries on the location of Santa Claus as he circles the globedelivering presents. The volunteers in the 23-hour NTS operations center answered117,371 calls from children looking for Santa Claus - an increase of nearly 3 percentfrom 2012. Military family members and community leaders volunteered their time toanswer phone calls as well as 9,606 emails, exceeding last year's count. The first lady,
Michelle Obama, also helped answer NORAD Tracks Santa calls for the fourth year in a row. The NTwebsite, www.noradsanta.org, had 19.58 million unique visitors access the site from 234 countries anterritories across the globe. The Facebook page topped 1.45 million "Likes", and the NTS Google+ pahad 41,676 fans. More than 146,307 people also followed Santa's progress on Twitter. Nearly 800 OnStsubscribers asked OnStar operators to locate Santa on Dec. 24, which is nearly 150% more than last yeaThe NTS site, featuring Bing and Cesium maps and other interactive games, also offered photos, videoand lots of fun facts about Santa and his reindeer throughout the month of December. "Throughout tyear the men and women of NORAD work hard to provid e aerospace securi ty for North Am erica, b
for this one night every year, we are able to help bring the magic of Chris tmas to c hi ldren aroun
the wor ld ," said Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, NORAD's public affairs director."We at NORAD are honored to a part of so many peoples' holiday traditions. Thank you to our many volunteers and corporacontributors for making this program possible, and we look forward to doing it again next year."
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Irene Truji l lo, Supervisor at Mt. San RafaelHospital in Trinidad was presented with theEmployer Support of the Guard and ReservePatriot Award by Colorado ESGR volunteer and
Area Chair for the Pueblo Area for her outstandingsupport of military service members, specificallyaward nominator, Senior Airman Nicolina Martinez,U. S. Air Force Reserve spoke about hersupervisorI have been employed at Mt. SanRafael Hosp ital for five years. Out of those five
years, I have been in the Air Fo rce Reserve forthr ee. Durin g these three years, I have had an
amazing supervisor. She is highly support ive
of my Reserve service. Many times I have had
to leave on short notice and she does an
outstandin g job finding co verage for me and
ensuring that my posit ion wil l be avai lable to me when I return. She has made the schedule flexible
around my Air Force Reserve duties. When I am fulf i l l ing my A ir Force duties, she ensures to keep in
touch w ith me to posit ively motivate me and keep up my morale while away from home. I wo uld l ike
to thank Irene Truj i l lo for always b eing a posit ive suppo rter of the Air Force Reserve and my Air
Force career. She is a great woman and supervisor.
The Patriot Award is not an employer-wide award, but one that recognizes supervisors an
bosses nominated by an employee serving in the National Guard or Reserve for support provide
directly to the nominator. The Patriot Award reflects the efforts made to support Citizen Warrio
through a wide-range of measures including flexible schedules, time off prior to and after d
ployment, caring for families and granting leaves of absence if needed.
Beverly Altmeier and Wil letta Bradbur
Supervisors at Express Scripts in Puebwere presented with the Employer Support the Guard and Reserve Patriot Award bColorado ESGR volunteer and Area Chair fothe Pueblo Area for their outstanding suppoof military service members, specificalaward nominator, Staff Sergeant ShawCollins, Army National Guard spoke about hsupervisorsMy supervisors have gonabove and beyond when it comes t
supp ort ing m y duties as a National Guar
member. He has been cal led on sever
occas ions to support short suspens
duties which, without employer suppor
could not have been accomplished.
Patr iot Award Presentations
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Richard YoungGeri Adams
Dan Lowe
The Twelve Days of Colorado National Guard ChristmasBYCOLORADONATIONALGUARDPUBLICAFFAIRS http://co.ng.mil/News/Pages/131223-12days.a
On the first day of Christmas my governor requested of me:1 massive flood response
On the second day of Christmas my governor requested of me:2 months of road repairs and 1 massive flood response
On the third day of Christmas my governor requested of me:3 thousand-233 people and 1,300 pets evacuated, 2 months of road repairs and 1 massive flood response
On the fourth day of Christmas my governor requested of me:4 wildfire responses, 3 thousand 233 people and 1,300 pets evacuated, 2 months of road repairs,
and 1 massive flood response
On the fifth day of Christmas my governor requested of me:5 hundred-fifty-seven water bucket drops on wildfires, 4 wildfire responses, 3 thousand 233 people and
1,300 pets evacuated, 2 months of road repairs, and 1 massive flood response
On the sixth day of Christmas my governor requested of me:6ty-seven security check points during the flood, 5 hundred-fifty-seven water bucket drops on wildfires, 4 wildfire
responses, 3 thousand 233 people and 1,300 pets evacuated, 2 months of road repairs, and 1 massive floodresponse
On the seventh day of Christmas my governor requested of me:7-teen lives saved by aerial search-and-rescue (other than floods), 6ty-seven security check points during theflood, 5 hundred-fifty-seven water bucket drops on wildfires, 4 wildfire responses, 3 thousand 233 people and
1,300 pets evacuated, 2 months of road repairs, and 1 massive flood response
On the eighth day of Christmas my governor requested of me:8 states supporting Vigilant Guard, 7-teen lives saved by aerial search-and-rescue (other than floods), 6ty-sevesecurity check points during the flood, 5 hundred-fifty-seven water bucket drops on wildfires, 4 wildfire responses
3 thousand 233 people and 1,300 pets evacuated, 2 months of road repairs, and 1 massive flood response
On the ninth day of Christmas my governor requested of me:
9 countries deployed to with 560 guard members, 8 states supporting Vigilant Guard, 7-teen lives saved by aeriasearch-and-rescue (other than floods), 6ty-seven security check points during the flood, 5 hundred-fifty-sevenwater bucket drops on wildfires, 4 wildfire responses, 3 thousand 233 people and 1,300 pets evacuated,
2 months of road repairs, and 1 massive flood response
On the tenth day of Christmas my governor requested of me:10-million-dollar facility in Alamosa, 9 countries deployed to with 560 guard members, 8 states supporting VigilanGuard, 7-teen lives saved by aerial search-and-rescue (other than floods), 6ty-seven security check points durinthe flood, 5 hundred-fifty-seven water bucket drops on wildfires, 4 wildfire responses, 3 thousand 233 people and
1,300 pets evacuated, 2 months of road repairs, and 1 massive flood response
On the eleventh day of Christmas my governor requested of me:11 hundred man days supporting floods, 10-million-dollar facility in Alamosa, 9 countries deployed to with 560
guard members, 8 states supporting Vigilant Guard, 7-teen lives saved by aerial search-and-rescue (other than
floods), 6ty-seven security check points during the flood, 5 hundred-fifty-seven water bucket drops on wildfires,4 wildfire responses, 3 thousand 233 people and 1,300 pets evacuated, 2 months of road repairs and
1 massive flood response
On the twelfth day of Christmas my governor requested of me:12 hundred sand bags filled, 11 hundred man days supporting floods, 10-million-dollar facility in Alamosa,
9 countries deployed to with 560 guard members, 8 states supporting Vigilant Guard, 7-teen lives saved by aeriasearch-and-rescue (other than floods), 6ty-seven security check points during the flood, 5 hundred-fifty-seven
water bucket drops on wildfires, 4 wildfire responses, 3 thousand 233 people and 1,300 pets evacuated,2 months of road repairs, and 1 massive flood response
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2013 Year in Review: CONG statistics in the style of "The Twelve Days of Christmas."
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State ESGR Vice ChaTom Mills, Brigadier Genera
CONG (Ret).
EMPLOYER OUTREACHAREA CHAIRS
Boulder/Longmont
Brad Gallup
Colorado SpringsMark HustedtMary Miller
Cortez Area
Robert ValenciaDenver Area
Bruce ErekRick White
Douglas County Area
Jimmy GrahamBob Rotruck
Estes Park Area Chair
Ed Acela
Fort Lyon/Tri CountyLeanne Wheeler
Larimer/Weld County
Ralph Trenary
Grand Junction
Lou Brackett
David Popham
Pueblo
Harry Vogel
Steamboat Springs
Jim Stanko
STAFF AND CONTACT INFORMATION
Brent Hamilton - Program Support Technician
720-250-1176 [email protected]
Chandra HanceAST-Administrative Support Technician720.250.1189 [email protected]
COESGR Business Office12200 East Briarwood Avenue, Suite 160
Centennial, Co 80112
FAX: 720.250.1199
State ESGR ChairRichard E. Young, RADM, USN (Ret)
COLORADO ESGR
DIRECTORS
Military Outreach
Pete CallawayDirector
Employer Outreach
Bev Skinner - Co-directorDave Pruett - Co-directorEO Coordinator, Major Corporations-Mark Saunders
OmbudsmenMartin Cobb - Director
Gary Brown - Dep. Dir.
Training
Lynn Albi
Paula Kauffman - Dep. Dir.
Special Programs
Fritz Ihrig
National Guard Liaison
Liz Kelpis
Public Affairs
Sherma Erholm - Director
Employer Initiatives
Zach Jacobsen - Co-Director
Dawanta Parks - Co-DirectorChase Dinkler - Deputy
MVEE Coordinator - Jason Shireman
H2H.jobs www.H2H.jobsH2H offers valuable resources for Servicemembers by way of hiring fairs, job training,career assessment and military skills translation.
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Events Calendar
January 14 MVEE Planning Meeting,
Colorado Springs
January 20 ESGR Freedom Awardnomination period closes
January 25 Volunteer Initial Training,Colorado National Guard Headqtrs, 6848
S. Revere Pkwy., Centennial, Colo. 80112.Directors Meeting following.
February 21-23 Advanced Ombudsman
Training, San Antonio
Guard and Reserve Members!Guard and Reserve Members!Would you like to see your employersname as a recipient of the 2014 Secretaryof Defense Employer Support FreedomAward?Contact Brent Hamilton, Program Support
Technic ian, for Colorado ESGR to get
addit ional information and assistance in
nomina t ing your employer fo r th is
prestig ious award.
Contact info: 720-250-1176 or
Nomination period is November 1, 2013to January 20, 2014.
Dont delay in nominating your employer.
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The contents of this newsletter highlight activities and events conducted by Colorado ESGR.
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