Research Catalog

Title

An assessment of fiscal year 2013 Beyond Yellow Ribbon programs / Laura Werber, Jennie W. Wenger, Agnes Gereben Schaefer, Lindsay Daugherty, Mollie Rudnick.

Author

Werber, Laura

Publication

• Santa Monica, Calif. : Rand Corporation, [2015]
• ©2015

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Additional Authors

• Wenger, Jennie W.
• Schaefer, Agnes Gereben
• Daugherty, Lindsay
• Rudnick, Mollie
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), sponsoring body.
• Rand Corporation, issuing body.

Description

xxvii, 159 pages; 26 cm

Summary

In 2011, Congress appropriated funding to expand the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program, authorizing "service- and state-based programs to provide access to service members and their families of all components." This supplemental funding -Beyond Yellow Ribbon (BYR)-supports programs that are intended to provide critical outreach services to personnel returning from deployments. BYR's overall goal is to ease service members' transition back into civilian life. In response to a congressional request to identify programs with strong records of success and to develop a nationwide set of promising practices, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs asked the RAND Corporation to provide an assessment of 13 programs in the ten states that received fiscal year 2013 BYR funding. The objectives of RAND's study were to: (1) examine the extent to which BYR programs have met their stated goals and the degree to which they have been effective in supporting reserve-component service members and their families, (2) identify promising practices in the programs that could be transferred across the broader set of BYR programs, and (3) suggest ways to improve the effectiveness of those programs as a whole. In RAND's determination, nearly all of the BYR programs are at least partially meeting their goals. This report concludes with recommendations to program leadership and to Department of Defense and congressional policymakers as they consider general program oversight and future BYR funding allocations.

Subject

• Veterans > Evaluation. > United States
• Veteran reintegration > United States

Note

• "RR-965-OSD"--Cover page 4.
• "RAND National Defense Research Institute"

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

California Work for Warriors Program -- Colorado Marketing and Outreach Program -- Florida Guard Family Career Connection Program -- Indiana Employment Coordination Program -- New Hampshire Care Coordination Program -- North Carolina's Integrated Behavioral Health System, Education and Employment Center, and Legal Assistance Program -- Oregon Joint Transition Assistance Program and Military Assistance Helpline -- Tennessee National Guard Employment Enhancement Program -- Vermont Veterans Outreach Program -- Washington Employment Enhancement Program -- RAND observations across programs.

ISBN

• 9780833088963
• 0833088963

OCLC

• 908375125
• SCSB-10204518

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library