Funder(s)
New York State Health Foundation, Accenture
Description/Abstract
This paper addresses a prevailing view that a lack of coordination, collaboration, and collective purpose among veteran and military-family serving organizations—public, private, and nonprofit—poses a serious risk to long-term veteran and family well-being. The authors show that collective impact, an innovative approach to cross-sector collaboration on complex social problems, presents an opportunity for communities, in partnership with the VA, other government agencies, and private industry, to improve outcomes for veterans, transitioning service members, and their families. In addition, the paper outlines the Institute for Veterans and Military Families’ (IVMF) ongoing collective impact initiative, AmericaServes, and highlights preliminary outcomes from its first pilot network in New York City.
Document Type
Report
Disciplines
Human Resources Management
Extent
32 pages
DCMI Type
Text
Keywords
Collective impact, Veterans, Transitioning service members, Military families
Subject
Veteran reintegration; Veterans--Employment--United States
Publisher
Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University
Date
4-2015
Language
English
Acknowledgements
This work was prepared with the support of the New York State Health Foundaton and Accenture. The authors express their sincere appreciaton for the detailed and helpful comments by expert reviewers from government, industry, academia, philanthropy, and the nonproft sector on a previous draft of this paper.
Recommended Citation
Armstrong, Nicholas; McDonough, James D. Jr.; and Savage, Daniel, "Driving Community Impact: A Case for Local Evidence-Based Coordination in Veteran and Military Family Services and the AmericaServes Initiative" (2015). Institute for Veterans and Military Families. 118.
https://surface.syr.edu/ivmf/118
Creative Commons License
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