Award-Winning Veterans Employment Program Opens in Chicago

‘Operation PAVE’ Provides Free Job Counseling & Placement Assistance to Chicago Area Veterans and their Families

--()--Paralyzed Veterans of America:

WHAT:

  The Chicago regional office of Paralyzed Veterans of America’s national employment assistance program—Operation PAVE (Paving Access for Veterans Employment) will officially open its doors on May 28. Paralyzed Veterans leaders will join local veterans, VA officials, Chicago area employers, and private sector partner Agility DGS Inc. to launch the new center at the Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital.
 

Operation PAVE provides free job counseling and placement assistance to veterans, and their families, and specializes in assisting disabled veterans seeking to reenter the workforce. PAVE counselors also work with local employers committed to hiring veterans to identify qualified employment candidates. The Chicago PAVE office will serve veterans in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Ohio.

 

PHOTO AND INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITY

Veterans benefitting from the PAVE program, as well as senior officials from Paralyzed Veterans of America and Agility DGS will be available for interviews, and giant-sized check representing new funding will be presented at the opening ceremony.

 

WHO:

Sherman Gillums, U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Director of the PAVE program, and Associate Executive Director of veterans benefits, Paralyzed Veterans of America

Bill Lawson, U.S. Army veteran, National President, Paralyzed Veterans of America

Ramadevi Parachuri, MD,  Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital

Rich Brooks, U.S. Army veteran, President, Agility DGS Inc. (lead private sector partner)

Davett Jones, U.S. Air Force veteran, and Operation PAVE client

Senior leader, Chicago Chamber of Commerce

 

WHEN:

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

10:00 am

 

WHERE:

Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital
5000 South 5th Avenue
Building #128 – Spinal Cord Injury Unit
Multi-purpose room
Hines, IL 60141
 

Paralyzed Veterans of America was founded by a group of seriously injured American heroes from the “Greatest Generation” of World War II. They created a nonprofit organization to meet the challenges that they faced back in the 1940s—from a medical community not ready to treat them to an inaccessible world. For more than 68 years, Paralyzed Veterans’ national office and its 34 chapters across the nation have been making America a better place for all veterans and people with disabilities. (www.pva.org)

In 2013, Paralyzed Veterans’ Operation PAVE program was awarded the Don Weber Wounded Warrior Employment Award by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Hiring our Heroes program.

Contacts

for PVA
Lani Poblete, 202-416-7667
or
for Agility
Reed Findlay, 202-403-8912

Release Summary

Paralyzed Veterans' Employment Assistance Office Opens its Doors in Chicago

Contacts

for PVA
Lani Poblete, 202-416-7667
or
for Agility
Reed Findlay, 202-403-8912