P R E S S  R E L E A S E        July 27, 2006  
 

Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity Chairman Boozman
lauds new online job training program
Military Order of Purple Heart Launches Veterans Business Training Center

Surrounded by students of the program, Rep. John Boozman (R-Ark.) lauds The Military Order of Purple Heart Foundation for launching online job training at a July 27 press conference.

Washington, D.C. – Today, The Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation held a press conference on the recently launched Veterans Business Training Center that was created to meet the needs of returning combat-wounded and disabled veterans with challenges they may encounter as they seek employment. The Veterans Business Training Center provides virtual job training for at-home combat-wounded and disabled veterans.

“It is important to increase the training and employment opportunities for our severely injured veterans and I wish the Military Order of the Purple Heart every success in this project,” said Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity Chairman John Boozman (R-Ark.).

The Veterans Business Training Center provides online job training and placement services to disabled and combat-wounded veterans by web-based technology. The goal is to recruit and train qualified veterans in high-demand information technology careers that offer long-term job placement. The course work will maximize the military training veterans receive and reengineer their skills to the information industry – creating employment opportunities to provide for themselves and their family.

Mortgage Investors Corporation, the Nation's largest VA mortgage company, is the first private company to sponsor the Veterans Business Training Center. Chairman of MIC, Bill Edwards, a combat disabled Marine pledged $100,000 to the Veteran Business Training Center and hopes other companies will follow suit. He stated, “There are over 82,000 veteran owned businesses in our country, and I would encourage each of them to reach out to this organization as MIC has proudly done.”

Collaborating with Federal and local agencies the Veteran Business Training Center has created a national model to support and train the anticipated thousands of Combat Wounded and Disabled Veterans returning from the War and in need of meaningful employment.

More information on the Foundation can be found at www.purpleheartfoundation.org

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