2 Preparedness Workforce Development and Preparation Informational Resources and Referral Link: US Department of Education: Veterans Upward Bound Program Link: Walmart Foundation and IVMF Vocational Acceleration Grants Guides and Publication: Implications for Employment and Well Being Guides and Publication: Enabling National Competitiveness Guides and Publication: Navigating Government Benefits & Employment – A Guidebook for Veterans with Disabilities Guides and Publication: Summary of State-Specific License, Certification, & Training/Education Initiatives Tools: Behavioral Event Interviewing Issue Brief: Challenges and Opportunities of Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom Veterans with Disabilities Transitioning into Learning and Workplace Environments Issue Brief: Military Training and Personality Trait Development: Does the Military Make the Man, or Does the Man Make the Military? Issue Brief: Transitioning To the Civilian Workforce: Issues Impacting the Reentry of Rural Women Veterans Issue Brief: Employment Outcomes and PTSD Symptom Severity Issue Brief: Civilian Employment Among Recently Returning Afghanistan and Iraq National Guard Veterans Issue Brief: Toward a Theory of Discontinuous Career Transition: Investigating Career Transitions Necessitated by Traumatic Life Events Issue Brief: U.S. Military Veterans Transition to College: Combat, PTSD, and alienation on campus Issue Brief: Serving Those Who Have Served- Managing Veteran and Military Student Best Practices Vocational Skills TrainingWorkforce PreparednessAccommodations & SupportHigher Education