JBS Transition Experts
Preparing Our Heroes for Today's Workplace
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
More than 240,500 veterans reside in San Diego County, making us the third highest population of veterans in the United States …Yet, here and elsewhere, veterans continue to experience significant challenges transitioning from the battlefield to civilian life in the workforce (San Diego Workforce Partnership 2016). Though the overall unemployment rate for veterans has declined in the last few years, for veterans between the ages of 35-44 it has actually increased. This is also higher than the non-veteran population. Not surprisingly, San Diego County also has one of the highest veteran unemployment rates in the country. Many senior military members own homes and want to stay in the area. Unfortunately, in today's tough job market they are ill-equipped to compete against savvy civilian job seekers because they have been disconnected from the civilian job force for so long.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
VetCTAP
Veteran Career Transition Assistance Program (VetCTAP) is a free workshop series provided to all branches of the military who are entering the civilian job market. We serve senior-level transitioning military, veterans, and spouses/partners. The 8 modules/32 hour workshop series provides hands-on, information rich, interactive training. On-going one-on-one coaching is also provided.
Business and Human Resources professionals and Career Coaches conduct the training and give practical, insightful advice and information to help navigate through the challenges of today's job market.
Our workshops and coaching are virtual via ZOOM.
Where we work
Awards
Leadership Award 2021
North San Diego Business Chamber
Affiliations & memberships
Live Well San Diego 2017
North San Diego Business Chamber 2019
San Diego Veterans Coalition 2017
North County Philanthropy Council 2018
Veterans Chamber of Commerce 2019
External reviews
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsTotal number of volunteer hours contributed to the organization
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Military personnel, Veterans
Related Program
VetCTAP
Type of Metric
Other - describing something else
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Number of volunteers engaged in the year for all cohorts
Number of job skills training courses/workshops conducted
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Ethnic and racial groups
Related Program
VetCTAP
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We increase veteran employment rate by helping transitioning military, veterans, and spouses/partners build their personal confidence and enhance their economic stability through job search skills training, practical tools, and one-on-one coaching that results in meaningful employment.
1. Equip 80-100 active military, veterans, and their spouses/partners with crucial job search skills;
2. Assist participants to obtain economic independence by meeting their career employment goals;
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We continue to utilize trained business experts (volunteers) who understand today's tough job market and share their expertise with our veterans. This includes senior-level Human Resource Professionals, Hiring Managers, Career Coaches, and more. By engaging 50+ volunteers, we keep our costs low and can focus our budget on the essentials needed for our unemployed veterans. That also creates an engaged business community. We continually improve our teaching and facilitating process through nightly evaluations and feedback.
We understand that there are many other issues that our veterans face besides employment. Therefore, we also partner and create alliances with numerous other non-profit, business, and community organizations to fill the gaps and needs of our military members.
We believe in empowering our participants. Therefore their success is strictly up to them. We provide proven, up-to-date tools and techniques, but they must put them to work. They are held accountable for their success.
Our one-on-one coaching and personalized approach is key. We keep classroom size small and cater to the time constraints of our population by offering night workshops for our active military members and spouses.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have a strong, committed volunteer base that is growing, engaged business supporters, military support, hundreds of success stories to highlight our success and business savvy leadership.
We have a proven track record of success. With only one part-time staff (contract) we have been able to meet our goals and meet our financial obligations for many years. Under our growing leadership team, our goal is to obtain $150, 000+ in grants and support so we may hire an Executive Director. We have also added engaged members to our Board and increased our dedicated volunteer base every year. We have had four very successful Golf Fundraisers and will continue then to increase our profits each year.
Filling our classroom with participants is never an issue since most of our veterans are referred by past participants.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
1) Continued success of our veterans - we maintain a 80%+ success rate; most of our participants are referred by "graduates"; many other veteran organizations refer veterans to us.
2) Increased volunteers, coaches - we have expanded our outreach and increased our number of volunteers and how many hours our volunteers work with us
3) Increased participants - We have expanded our reach to all of the branches of the military in San Diego and now we reach all branches and locations through our virtual workshop series. We are truly global.
4) Increased donations - we have 3 fundraising campaigns a year and we have implemented an annual golf fundraiser.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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JBS Transition Experts
Board of directorsas of 02/14/2024
Janis Whitaker
Janis Whitaker
Retired
Sandra Fichter
Fichter Silva Consulting
Betsy Sheets
Career Development Consultant
Barbara Cogburn
Franklin Covey
Mike Mahrenholz
Proficio
Jay Garcia
Jay Garcia Group
Mike Plue
SAP
Craig Wells
Entrepreneur
Mary Schwalen
Career Coach
Steven "Pete" Peterson
United States Marine Corps logo MAGTF Operations Training Team Lead
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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The organization's co-leader identifies as:
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Equity strategies
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- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.