Copyright © 2014 North Georgia Veteran’s Outreach Center

North Georgia

Veteran’s

outreach center

Copyright © 2014 North Georgia Veteran’s Outreach Center

In today’s hectic job market, one of

the questions that I hear most is,

what is the best way to market

myself to the civilian sector after my

tour is finished?

That is a very tricky question, do you

stick to what you’ve been trained to

do, should you go back to school or

maybe you venture out and make

your way as best you can with

whatever gets dropped in your lap and earn the money you need for you and your family to survive?

With the GI Bill in your pocket, some would argue that it only makes sense to go to school if for no other reason

than to get certifications and updates in the field that you hope to enter upon finishing. It would make for a

smoother transition if you could acclimate to the civilian sector while attending school without the pressure of

bosses and deadlines. You could ease out of the uniform and back into the sleep late, eat what you want and

not snap to attention whenever the boss walks in the room mode more easily.

Others argue that those traits are refreshing to managers and executives who may feel discipline and

regimentation is lacking in the workplace and could use a good shot of drill sergeant. Either way, the decision is

up to you and you alone. You are the one who loses sleep for the 6 months prior to your ETS date worrying about

a job that has yet to appear. Worrying about whether your High and Tight haircut will mark you as a stud or as a

hard-ass. The civilian world is different, even if you lived off post. Civilian living outside a military base and

civilians living in a city that don’t have any dealings with military at all are two different types of civilians.

Hiring managers won’t understand about leading CTT (Common Task Training) but if you break it down into civilian

terms and say something more along the lines of cross training individuals within the team so that in the event

of one team members absence, any other team member could fill in and complete any task assigned to the team.

Minor miscommunications like that could be the difference between getting the job or not.

Transition assistance is offered at the North Georgia

Veteran’s Outreach Center, free of charge, to any

Veteran. We help with any stage of Job Search, whether

it’s in the transition period or if you’re changing jobs or

considering a retirement career. We help with resume

building, interviewing techniques, career counseling and

job placement assistance. All of our Mentors are

volunteers and provide their services for free. We do this

because we, as Veterans ourselves know that with a little

help, a Veteran can do just about anything. We have

already been places no one wanted to go and done things

that no one wanted to do. We’ve done so much, for so

long, with so little, that now, we can do almost anything,

with practically nothing. Stand back and watch us work.

For more information on our programs and services please visit our website at www.nogavetoutreach.com

Making the Transition

From Soldier to Citizen

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We also have a YouTube Channel at:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIMtXoZag364CtMXL60fdWQ

Check out our original videos and other inspiring and thought provoking

videos on our playlists.

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PURCHASE WILL BENEFIT OUR MISSION.

VETERANS HELPING VETERANS LIVE BETTER.

Visit our website to find updated

information about out Food Drives,

Clothing Drives, Fundraisers,

Community Nights and more.

Contact us if you need assistance

with Transportation, Housing,

Government Benefits &

Entitlements or Transition

Assistance. We have Veterans

waiting to help. We are Veterans

and volunteers who want to help

make positive changes for other

Veterans and their families. Our

short term goals are to enable every

Veteran in North Georgia to be able

to work, live and receive the care

they need without hindrance. We

accept any donation and any

volunteer effort that is offered. We

are available 24/7 at

678-943-2046 or by email at

info@nogavetoutreach.com.

Any donations of money can be

given at our fundraising sites:

Gofundme.com/nogavetoutreach

Booster.com/nogavetoutreach

Your support in these efforts is

what makes us work. Without

donations from the Heroes behind

the Heroes, we would not be able to

afford to help.

Please Help us, Help Veterans.

VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT: WWW.NOGAVETOUTREACH.COM

Another of our Fundraising efforts can be

found here at GoFundMe.com. Please take

a moment and Help Us, Help Veterans.

Follow us on Facebook

at:

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You can also view our

LinkedIn profile at:

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Or, you can follow us

on Twitter @nogavet. Probably our most exciting news is the ALL NEW

Podcast we will be posting on a weekly basis.

We don’t have a name yet. Maybe as a Veteran

Community project we can decide one together. Tweet your idea to

@nogavet and we’ll make the decision before Christmas. Thanks.

!!!PODCAST!!!

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At least once a quarter North Georgia Veteran’s Outreach Center will hold

and Clothing Drive and a Food Drive. These two events will normally be

held separately and on different dates in the quarter. You may always

check our Events page on www.nogavetoutreach.com to find out about

upcoming events, along with locations, times and volunteer information.

We have held Clothing and Food drives in the past and collected so much

that we are still stockpiling Food and Clothing, so if you know a Veteran

or Veteran’s family in need of these item, please look at the Receive Help

From Us page on the website to find out how to contact us and what

information we will need to help the Veteran. Our last attempts at collecting food were so successful that we

dropped off food at two local Gainesville Food Pantries because we didn’t have room to store it all and we also

made clothing donations to Goodwill in Oakwood, Georgia and Am Vets with the excess in order to save our

dwindling storage space.

Helping us with our last Food Drive was a group of volunteers

from the Kingdom Group. Kingdom Group sends volunteers who

need community service hours as part of programs administered

by counties and the state of Georgia in order to graduate those

programs. The Kingdom Group volunteers showed up early and

spent a good part of the day sorting donations and boxing and

loading donations in our trucks according to where we planned

to distribute them. If it weren’t for the hard work of these men

and women, our success would have been much more modest.

We owe them a debt of gratitude and will use their services as

often as possible.

With winter in full swing a winter clothing drive is our best

attempt at helping homeless and less fortunate Veterans and their families. We will be attempting to set one up

after January 2015. If you have no plans for the beginning of the year, tentatively plan to join us in the I-985

corridor somewhere for a winter clothing drive. We will also need help spreading the word prior to the event. So

as soon as we have our next planning meeting, December 17, 2014, we will be sure to let everyone know the

date and location so that we can start planning and getting information out to everyone.

The next Food Drive will also be scheduled at that meeting and the

time and location for the Food Drive will also be released the day

after. We will make plans for that also, but it seems that Food Drives

always go so much easier than Clothing Drives. People will bring a

can of food a lot faster than an article of clothing. Information being

distributed to possible donors is key to our success, anyone who has

made it this far should please make sure that they remind anyone

interested in donating about the date a few times. If anyone knows

donors who can’t make it to the actual drive, please contact us at

678-943-2046 or at info@nogavetoutreach.com and we will send

someone to make a pickup at their residence or work. It’s the donation that matters, not the way we get it.

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Benefits and Entitlements Counseling

North Georgia Veteran’s Outreach Center provides Benefits and Entitlements

Counseling to help Veterans and their families figure out what programs,

benefits and entitlement for which they are eligible to apply. We do this for

the US Veteran’s Administration, Georgia State Veteran’s Initiative and any

other local or federal programs for which a Veteran might qualify. Once we’ve

figured out what you can apply for, then we help you fill out the necessary

paperwork and figure out what kind of backup documentation you will have

to provide in order to get the best outcome in the shortest time possible. We

will also help you with any further documentation or reviews that come up

after you initial filing, because as we know, the government always need

something else.

Housing Assistance

North Georgia Veteran’s Outreach Center provides Housing

Assistance to Veterans and their families as part of our

mission to end Veteran Homelessness. We work to get

Veterans in touch with programs designed to provide

housing to families with limited or low incomes like HUD,

Section 8 and other State and Federal programs. Our

mission is to place all Veterans and their families in

permanent, safe housing so that they can get on with their

lives, get jobs and feel like an integral part of the civilian

world. Like they used to when they were in the military.

Veterans are Heroes and even Heroes need help sometimes.

Helping a Veteran find a permanent place to live is one of

the best things that we do her at the North Georgia Veteran’s

Outreach Center. I want to do this every day. Please

volunteer and Help Us, Help Veterans.

Transportation Assistance

As I travel to my Doctor’s appointments at the VA clinic, I sometimes

notice Veterans sitting around waiting for a ride. One day I said in

passing that you couldn’t count on the shuttle to the Atlanta VA

Hospital any more than you could count on the MARTA busses to stay

on schedule. The Veteran I was directing the comment to said to me

that he had been to Atlanta and back already and the shuttle was

fine, he didn’t have a ride to his house from the clinic. It would be 3

or 4 hours before his daughter got off work and could come get him

and a taxi, if he could get one to take him that far, would cost half

his monthly pension check. It never occurred to me that any Veteran

on a fixed income or in a situation where they couldn’t afford a car, would have issues getting themselves to and

from the clinic to get a free ride to the hospital. We at the North Georgia Veteran’s Outreach Center will provide

Transportation Assistance as often as possible to Veterans from their homes to the nearest clinic and home again

after appointments. These rides will have to be scheduled in advance and may not be able to be accommodated

every time, but we will do our best.

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The North Georgia Veteran’s Outreach Center is run by Disabled Veterans suffering with multiple debilitating

illnesses and injuries whose mission is to provide advocacy, assistance and services designed to enhance the

lives of Veterans who served their country in the Armed Forces, their families, and their survivors.

We assist in obtaining entitlements and services from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), U.S.

Department of Defense, Georgia State Department of Veterans Affairs, and local programs for eligible Veterans

and their families.

The North Georgia Veteran’s Outreach Center provides Military Transition Assistance and Mentoring for Veterans

and their families during these challenging periods.

We also provide food, clothing, shelter, and transportation assistance for the homeless, disabled and

underprivileged Veterans in our community.

The North Georgia Veteran's Outreach Center is a Charitable Organization that will be applying for its 501(c)3

status as soon as we move to our permanent office/warehouse facility. Right now we are running out of room in

our current location and will need more space.

Our outreach started as one man's mission to help Veterans maintain a certain level of dignity in their dealings

with the civilian world. Our founder noticed that there were Veterans in our community that were out of work

because they didn't have a car, or a phone, or an address. They didn't have those things because they didn't

have a job, and the vicious circle kept spiraling round and round.

One afternoon, after talking with a young man, our founder drove him to an interview and told him to tell them

he had reliable transportation to work. The young veteran did and got the job. Our founder drove him back and

forth to work for three months until the young man could afford a car and then the young man was on his way. For

the cost of a few gallons of gas, our founder gave this man and his family their life back. He didn't dive on a

grenade, and he didn't have to give up any blood to make this happen. It was just a good deed gone right.

We are currently storing food, clothing, sundries and consumables that we collect at our weekend/holiday

fundraising/donation drives. We offer assistance with obtaining benefits, counseling on housing issues, credit

counseling services, transition services, job search, health care, legal assistance and transportation

assistance. We are also accepting donations to help defray the costs of moving to a larger office/warehouse at

gofundme.com/nogavetoutreach. We have web presences at facebook.com, twitter.com, youtube.com and

LinkedIn.com.

There are much bigger organizations that do work on a much larger scale and raise much more money, but they

do it on a national level for many more people than we do. One day maybe we too can save the world, but for

now, we want to start in our own back yard. Please take a moment to thank a Veteran for their service. Freedom

isn't free and our Veterans have done things and gone places that we don't want to know about. We need them

and they now need us. They deserve more than what they get from the government alone. They should be treated

as heroes and given preference above others for their unique sacrifices.

OUR MISSION

Copyright © 2014 North Georgia Veteran’s Outreach Center

North Georgia Veteran's Outreach Center

1252 Industrial Boulevard, Gainesville, GA 30501

678-943-2046

www.nogavetoutreach.com

info@nogavetoutreach.com