CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- There's a new program for veterans and their families in the Chicago area designed to help them find purpose in life after post-9/11 service.
Dog Tag, Inc., new in Chicago, offers veterans a free, intensive five-month program in business management. It started in Washington, D.C. with a bakery and intensive business training, through a partnership with Georgetown University.
"Learning business fundamentals and figuring out what's next for them; finding purpose in life after they have left the service, finding that purpose and offering it in a vein that makes sense for them, right, in entrepreneurship," said Justin Miller, an Iraq War veteran, himself, who is the Dog Tag, Inc. Chicago Program Manager.
He described Dog Tag, Inc. as a five-month-long, business fundamentals, entrepreneurial education program with some hands-on training.
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"On top of that, we have what we call 'rotations,' which is kind of our value proposition if you would. Our hands-on, in the bakery, learning small business fundamentals. Not teaching how to bake cookies, teaching how to run a small business," Miller said.
Dog Tag, Inc. is now partnering with Loyola University’s School of Business here in Chicago. They’re doing two 5-month programs a year.
"We offer this five-month program to them. It's quite intense, Monday through Thursday, four full days a week of structured programming. We bring in Loyola University Chicago to teach some of the more structured curriculum."
You can find information at dogtaginc.org.
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