Describes the internal coach training program that Homeward Deployed is developing to train veterans, especially wounded veterans, and military spouses, especially the spouses of the wounded and the fallen, to be coaches for Homeward Deployed.

1. Department of Labor
America’s Heroes at Work
April 9, 2010
“where military families ARE mission critical”

2. Ronald Drach
U.S. Department of Labor
Veterans’ Employment & Training Service
Natache Muschette
U.S. Department of Labor
Gretchen Martens
Founder and CEO, Homeward Deployed, Inc.
Chair, Veterans Task Force at the Greater
Springfield Chamber of Commerce

3. 1. Introduce Homeward Deployed’s Coach
Training Program designed to put America’s
veterans and military spouses on the road
to economic self-sustainability.
2. Explore ways to partner with the
Department of Labor to put America’s
veterans to work.

4. Suicide
Violent
Depression
Crimes
Unemployment
Substance Child
Abuse Maltreatment
Homelessness Divorce

5. Veterans, particularly service-disabled
veterans
Military spouses, particularly spouses of
the fallen or the wounded

6. Wounded Warriors being trained
and paid to coach and build
resilience in military families in
crisis.

7. Homeward Deployed
The Newfield Network, one of the world’s
oldest and most respected coaching training
programs
TheForte Institute, whose Forte System has
been used since 1978 to improve interpersonal
communications

8.  Beginning and ending in-person coach
training conferences
Mid-program two day training on the Forte
System
 Assigned readings, writing assignments, tele-
classes, webinars, learning groups, and
individual coaching in-between conferences

9. Guaranteed employment by Homeward
Deployed
Career-path development

10. Homeward Deployed is the lead entity seeking
funding for this program.
The total cost of training, per wounded warrior,
is estimated to be $15,000 not including
training stipends.

11. To secure a corporate sponsorships of
$180,000 over 3 years for each coach in
training from companies earning profit off of
the Gulf War-Era II war effort.
Our advocates are arranging introductions for
us, potentially including the White House. We
already have senior contacts at the Pentagon,
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and MOAA.

12. By August 2010: Acquire funding to
begin a pilot program with a small
number of Wounded Warriors.
By September 2010: Begin program
design and student recruitmetn
By January 2011: Start training our
first class of coaches
By April 2011: Graduate our first
class of coaches

13.  A grant and/or introduction to funders to
fund the pilot Coach Training Program
 Endorsement of Homeward Deployed and the
Coach Training Program
 A Point of Contact to serve as a resource and
introductions to key constituencies

14. The Power of Community
◦ Give Back
◦ Heal
◦ Empower

15. To help military families achieve
economic self-sustainability by the
direct training and hiring of
wounded veterans and military
spouses by Homeward Deployed

16.  Unemployment and homelessness
 Child maltreatment
 Depression and suicide
 Substance abuse
 Violent crime
 Divorce

17.  Fund the pilot Coach Training Program
 Endorsements
 Provide Points of Contact

18. Gretchen Martens, M.A.
Founder and CEO, Homeward Deployed
www.HomewardDeployed.org
Chair, Veterans Task Force, Greater Springfield
Chamber of Commerce
www.SpringfieldChamber.org
Phone: (703) 622-0919
Email: Gretchen@HomewardDeployed.org