The document discusses creating an integrated community for veterans that combines physical and vocational rehabilitation. It would be located near existing VA facilities at Warm Springs, Callaway, and Eisenhower's VA to provide medical care alongside job training programs using new learning technologies. This innovative approach aims to help disconnected veterans transition more smoothly to civilian employment in a supportive environment. It could be one of the first programs to fully integrate healing and work for veterans. The project currently has $500,000 and seeks a federal match to reach a $5 million goal.
2. “It’s the economy stupid”
(And your most important assets are your mind & connections)
• The emergent ‘knowledge economy’ is feeding
into a related ‘knowledge-based economy’
• Knowledge-based occupations will require less
direct physical labor, and more facility with
software, understanding data, and team
communications
• Veterans have already been exposed to the
information-centric, high intensity, skills-based
team occupations. Further, they have a strong
brand identity that can be leveraged
3.
4. Innovations, Invention, and Impact
• Advanced Manufacturing
Local Examples Include:
1. CAMotion @ Atlanta, GA
2. Kia Manufacturing Plant @ West
Point, GA
3. Amendia @ Atlanta, GA
• Renewable Energy
Deploying and utilizing alternative energy sources
requires a variegated skill-set and labor pool, including
developers, installers, manufactures, consultants etc.
5. Challenges
• Wounded warriors, like most veterans returning
from the wars, are disconnected from the
domestic labor economy
• Veterans with disabilities need a safe space to
decompress, heal, and renew
• Veterans requiring long-term rehabilitation and
care, must have access to both a wide-range of
professional services and health expertise, as well
as their family & friendship networks
6. Labor life cycle of the “typical”
Training can shift the peek
right-ward employee
Benefits to
the firm
7. Where can we add value?
*from Rauner, MacLean (2008)
8. Warm Springs, Callaway, and Ike’s VA
– A Vision
• Integrated approach to healing. Combining a
living-learning community, traditional medical
facilities, and a network of biomedical and
hospital technologist
• Historical legacies of two transformational
leaders, President Roosevelt & Eisenhower
• Using innovative new learning technologies,
including openCourseware, Self-directed
computerized courses, and distance learning, to
provide personalized training material
9. The current competitive landscape
• FY2013 VA budget is estimated at 140.3 billion
(a 6% YOY increase)
• FY2013 VA budget for vocational rehabilitation
at 1.59 billion (a 10% YOY increase)
• Vocational rehabilitation programs targeting a
population of approx. 130,000 veterans
• Afghan & Iraq war veteran unemployment
rate: 9.1%, 33% for 18-24 age-cohort
10. First of it’s kind?
• Dan Marino vocational program for teens with
autism. First class 2014
• Ohio Recovery-to-Work project. Started in
2011, focuses on individuals with alcohol and
drug addictions
• The team could not identify any other
programs that incorporated both a physical
rehabilitation and dedicated vocational
component
11. Factors that lead to successful
rehabilitation program
*taken from Hayward, Schmidt-Davis (2005)
12. Summary
• Project currently has $500,000 and wants to
utilize federal 4:1 match. Final projected
capital goal is $5,000,000
• Great opportunity exist to utilize new
learning-technologies for vocational training
• One of the first fully integrated healing-to-
work communities in the nation dedicated to
veterans
Why this is still relevant to disabled veterans, knowledge economy, give facts about this. Mention GT advanced manufacturing program“For countries in the vanguard of the world economy, the balance betweenknowledge and resources has shifted so far towards the former that knowledgehas become perhaps the most important factor determining the standard ofliving.. . . Today’s most technologically advanced economies are truly knowledgebased. (World Bank, 1999)” – Evolutionary Economics and Knoweldge Based Economies Preface
