POWER Up!



Beginning July 1, 2010, POWER Up!* job coaches will be out in the field to introduce homeless women Veterans and homeless Veterans with children to this program. Through POWER Up! Veterans will learn and sharpen job hunting skills.
  1. Each Veteran in the program will first develop with POWER Up! coaches an individual employment plan (IEP).  The IEP will list job-ready skills, goals and timelines.
  2. Second, Veterans will have opportunities to upgrade skills or retool for green jobs. 
  3. Third, finding a job is work.  POWER Up! participants will devote consistent effort to obtain a job.
  4. Fourth, business leaders will offer examples as they become mentors to POWER Up! participants.
  5. The target results for POWER Up! 1) help 90 women Veterans and Veterans with children get jobs over the next year and 2) design a service delivery system that address complex problems facing homeless Veterans.


3 ways you can volunteer to help a POWER Up! soldier:

1.  Be a mentor.  Spend 30 minutes each week to help a participant connect with job opportunities or prepare for a job interview. You may choose to call or meet in person.

2. Attend a “Women of Power” lunch.  Meet participants and share your lessons learned in finding and keeping a job.

3. Share your best job hunting tips by sending us a 30 second video of you explaining your best how to advice in securing a new job.

Will you help?

Email Noe Foster at NFoster@theStrategist.tv  with your name, contact information and how you can help.  Thank you so very much for being a part of the solution to homelessness and for helping a Veteran.

*POWER Up! is an employment, workforce solution project made possible through a $300,000 federal grant from the Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Services (VETS).  This VETS grant will finance 100 percent of the project costs.

Employers Needed!

Want to Hire Skilled Employees? Employers Needed to Hire Veterans.

Our POWER Up! Veterans have valuable work skills to benefit employers. They are motivated to do an outstanding job for you.  Please contact Noe Foster if you any job opportunities. The Federal Government also offers tax incentives for hiring Veterans and Veterans with disabilities. 

Contact Noe Foster at (808) 753-7223 or email: NFoster@theStrategist.tv to learn how you can benefit from hiring skilled Veterans for your workforce.

Join!

Do you want to join POWER Up? It’s a free.  

Email Noe Foster at  NFoster@theStrategist.tv or call (808) 753-7223.  Please include your name, contact telephone number and email address.

To qualify, you must be able to answer ‘yes’ to the following questions:

  1. Have you served in the Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, Marines, Navy, National Guard, or Reserves?
  2. Were you honorably discharged?
  3. Do you live on Oahu?
  4. Have you been homeless (lived in a homeless shelter, in a car, on the beach, in a park, or elsewhere) for at least one night in the last year?
  5. Are you a women or a man with children?

If you answered ‘yes’ to all five questions, POWER Up! can help you find a job or upgrade your current job.

Thank you for your interest in POWER Up!

POWER Up! is an acronym for:

Plan  Opportunities  Work  Examples = Results

Noe Foster is the Founder and CEO of theStrategist, LLC, a firm that specializes in high dollar, high-risk projects involving Military, Medicaid, and Medicare populations. For the last decade, Noe has led large-scale initiatives to reach and benefit low-income populations, primarily unemployed, single mothers and homeless families. She served on the advisory board that established a new community health center. Noe developed and established the first-ever Hawaii scholarship program to specifically help low-income, single mothers enhance their employ-ability and salary potential through non-credit and credit community college and university job training and education classes.  Since 2003, more than 300 low-income women and mothers, many who are, at risk for, or have been homeless, received job training and completed their educational degrees as a result. For nearly seven years, Noe served as a senior executive of one of Hawaii’s top 55 largest companies in revenue and had direct oversight and accountability for multi-million dollar operating budgets.  In this role, she piloted innovative job-training and talent development programs. theStrategist has designed and led turnaround strategies for a Fortune 25 corporation.

Noe served as a medic in the U.S. Air Force Reserves and is a member of the military Pacific Task Force for Psychological Health Executive Board for Tripler Army Medical Center. Noe plays a key role in the development and planning of Hawaii’s Veterans Court.

 
 


 

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