Our diverse team works with veterans, active military, and their families to build a personal action plan and provide ongoing support as they achieve new goals.

Easterseals Military & Veteran Services has solutions that work for vets, from training for new careers to getting off the streets and into safe, stable, independent housing.

We have a network of more than 200 community partners and businesses ready to invest in the success of each veteran we serve.

All services are FREE to veterans regardless of their time in service or discharge status. Easterseals is the United Way of Greater Cincinnati’s agency partner for serving veterans who call the 211 help line.

Easterseals provides:

• Career assessment, education and training for the region’s most in-demand jobs
• Help with child care, housing, and transportation
• Job coaching including resume, interview, and placement services
• Help accessing and understanding your VA benefits
• Paid transitional employment
• Financial assistance for job-related expenses including work clothes and licenses
• Computer and internet access
• Help with emergency expenses

Easterseals Military & Veteran Services is a team of veterans serving veterans. They understand the challenges of ending a military career and reestablishing themselves as civilians. Each left military service for different reasons:  retirement, a disabling injury, or reduction in force.

Despite the differing circumstances and coming from different branches of service, each shared that same sense of loss when their military careers came to a close. The feeling of lost mission, lost purpose, and the lost bonds of friendship forged in service to America.

Easterseals Military & Veteran Services was formed in 2012 to serve veterans who lost their footing and have struggled to find their place as civilians. Many of these veterans who turn to Easterseals face challenges with disabling injuries seen and unseen, homelessness, substance abuse, and unemployment.

In 2020, inspired by the veterans they serve who fought to overcome these challenges, Easterseals Military & Veteran Services Director Scott Robinson, an Air Force veteran, and job developer Chris Macklin, an Army veteran, biked 22 miles of the Loveland Bike Trail on Memorial Day.

They carried with them yellow ribbons bearing the names of veterans who served as far back as World War II as a tribute to their service. We continue this tradition for its second year, and extend an invitation for YOU to join our ride or send a name of a loved one we may carry during the Easterseals Honor Ride.

​Hip Hip Hurray: Wyoming Ohio Cycling Foundation will continue as our 2022 Honorary Ride Directors! 

For the members of the Wyoming Ohio Cycling Foundation, bicycling through the hills of their neighborhood wasn’t quite enough. They found a unique way to combine their love of riding with charitable giving to support local veterans who rely on Easterseals for help.

The founding members realized that with their growing numbers, they could combine their love of riding with charitable giving to support local veterans who rely on Easterseals. They met Chris Macklin, a Job Development Coach with Easterseals Military & Veteran Services, who took them up on their offer to join an early morning ride.

During that ride, Chris candidly shared his story of serving in the U.S. Army and the obstacles he faced after discharge due to a life-changing, service-related injury. Chris recounted the physical and emotional turmoil upon his return to civilian life and the disconnect that ensued. He shared that it was Easterseals that brought him stability. Just as he is able to help those veterans now who need assistance for their own unique reasons.

“What this group did really went to help with transportation for several veterans, including car repairs and bus passes,” Macklin says of the cycling club’s gift. “When one of the veterans I assist faces a transportation crisis, it can lead to larger issues. It’s easy to get discouraged and lose hope. It’s great to have philanthropic dollars so that you can tell a guy, ‘Hey, we can help you with that,’ and empower them to get a job and help them keep it.”

For the cyclists, the exhilaration of biking through the streets of their hometown has evolved into something much more. Their willingness to go beyond cycling and support veterans and their families sets them apart as Easterseals heroes.