Disaboom and the Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation have teamed up to launch a new employment venture that will provide employment and financial success to combat-wounded and disabled veterans. Guided by their respective mission statements, the two organizations anticipate that the financial benefits of the partnership will match the positive impact on the disabled veteran community.
According to the partnership, Disaboom will hire graduates of the Purple Heart Service Foundation’s job training program “Veterans Business Training Center” (VBTC) to work as virtual agents. All graduates of the VBTC are home-bound, combat-wounded or disabled veterans, fully skilled in call center and contact center technology, and all have successfully completed an online training program offered through the Purple Heart Service Foundation and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
In regards to the benefits that the partnership will provide to US veterans, Dr. Glen House, founder of Disaboom stated, “Combat-wounded and disabled veterans represent a large percentage of the unemployed population in America. These are individuals who have sacrificed for our nation, and who have proven talent and motivation, but who often require jobs that are flexible and accessible – jobs that meet their unique new lifestyles with disabilities. The Disaboom/Purple Heart Service Foundation employment contract offers veterans touched by combat injury or disability the unique opportunity to be employed on their own terms. They can now work from their home, utilizing the discipline and skills that they were taught. We see it as win-win for us and for those who have served our nation.”
Greg Bresser, executive director of the Purple Heart Service Foundation also stated, “We recognized two years ago that if combat wounded or disabled veterans were properly trained, they could work from home. We saw an opportunity for this group of veterans to become a vital, remote work force for many large Fortune 1,000 companies, as well as smaller family-owned businesses. We created the VBTC to help combat-wounded and disabled veterans learn the skills to compete for jobs within the contact center industry.”
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