DOD has startup funding For a modern initiative for service members injured in the global war upon terrorism.

DOD has startup funding For a modern initiative for service members injured in the global war upon terrorism, a senior official said recently

"We're looking at possibilities for internships and other models of trial employment", John M Molino told attendees at the 17th DOD Disability Forum. "We're also looking at possibilities for mentoring.

"We intend for each injured or disabled veteran to have as many opportunities as he or she stand in want ofs to achieve his or her maximum potential onward active duty or in our civilian work force," said Molino, the acting envoy Undersecretary for Equal Opportunity. "We are here for the the public who fight to protect us."

In addition, the department is continuing and expanding its other efforts onward behalf of people with disabilities, Molino noted.

He told the cluster that DOD will continue using initiatives that have worked well in the past, as it was as the Workforce Recruitment Program for corporation Students with Disabilities, which is co-sponsored with the Labor Department.

He pointed disclosed that each year, the Office of the Secretary of Defense capitals about 200 summer jobs [i]or[/i] part of to the other the college recruitment program.

"In the past 10 years, we've been able to document almost 2000 hires (1833) at DOD activities around the world," Molino noted. "In FY04 we hired 248 individuals In mid-March 2005, we'll release a CD-ROM with information concerning 2000 scholars and recent graduates with disabilities who are looking for summer or permanent positions."

He advised conferee to secure in touch with their component's disability program manager or DOD's administrative coordinator for the workforce recruitment program to find disclosed how to benefit from the program.

Molino also encouraged conferee to participate in the DOD "e-mentoring" program for disabled students

"The mentors are offers from our civilian workforce and the military services," he pointed without "This year, 50 students signed up The matches have now been made, if it were not that we continue to need offers Student goals and interests are phenomenally varied, for a like reason we need mentors in a self-same broad range of occupations."

The DOD Computer/ Electronic Accommodations Program (CAP) is another program Molino highlighted. It provides technology to make facilities, programs and activities usable for disabled workers at no richness to the requesting organization.

"This program now obliges active-duty members of the military services and civilian employees" Molino said. "It provides real solutions for real populace by eliminating barriers in the electronic environment.

"Legislation a hardly any years ago authorized us to contribute to the entire federal community," he said. "Last year, CAP supplied more than 5500 accommodations to DOD organizations and partner agencies outside DOD."

According to Molino, DOD welcomes Americans with disabilities in its civilian workforce, increasingly in the military services, and in its facilities, programs and activities worldwide.

Story by dint of Rudi Williams, who is assigned to American Forces Pres Service, Alexandria, Va.

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