Keep
Chipping Away.
Progress is built one deliberate step at a time. A setback changes the plan—not the destination.
Veterans EducationalTechnical Training Source
Your next mission deserves more than tuition.
VETTS is being built to help veterans and former service members move from technical and trade education to completed credentials and durable careers—with gap funding, human support, and accountability at every step.
Built with discipline.VETTS is not yet accepting applications or donations. Public launch comes only after legal, governance, funding, data-security, provider, and capacity gates are met.
The VETTS culture
Keep
You do not have to do it alone.
VETTS pairs educational assistance with consistent human support, early intervention, and shared accountability.
Leave No Veteran Behind.
No person is reduced to a score, ignored in difficulty, or abandoned without meaningful review, communication, and a path forward.
Our purpose
Educational access should become a completed credential and a durable economic opportunity—not merely an enrollment.
VETTS is designed as an integrator, gap-funder, and persistence partner: coordinating existing resources, funding justified gaps, resolving barriers, and connecting verified training to meaningful work.
The whole pathway
We do not stop at enrollment.
Every participant is meant to have one secure record and one continuous success pathway from first contact through career growth.
- 01Intake
- 02Eligibility
- 03Orientation
- 04School selection
- 05Enrollment
- 06Training
- 07Barrier intervention
- 08Credential
- 09Employment
- 10Career advancement
Training is one part.
Staying with the veteran is the model.
Staying with the veteran is the model.
What makes VETTS different
Funding plus follow-through.
Coordinated gap funding
VETTS is designed to coordinate available resources first, then pay justified educational gaps directly to approved providers—never ordinary tuition cash to participants.
High-touch persistence support
Every funded participant receives a success plan, scheduled check-ins, Green / Yellow / Red monitoring, and fast human outreach when risk appears.
Barrier resolution
Transportation, housing instability, childcare, academic readiness, finances, and other barriers are addressed early through support, coordination, and closed-loop referrals.
Provider accountability
Programs must pass legitimacy and quality review, report progress, protect participant data, follow refund rules, and earn annual reapproval.
A verified career bridge
The relationship continues through credential completion, employment, retention, and 30-, 90-, 180-, and 365-day follow-up.
A broad but disciplined pathway
Eligibility begins with service. It never ends with a checkbox.
The standard is 36 cumulative months of qualifying active-duty service. Qualifying periods may be combined.
Applicants below the standard may receive an objective written equivalency review based on established criteria.
Service, separation circumstances, readiness, need, and the opportunity for transformation are considered with meaningful human judgment.
Final public eligibility, documentation, selection, appeal, and funding criteria will be published before any application period opens. VETTS eligibility will not alter a person’s official discharge characterization or establish VA eligibility.
Support before crisis
Every signal gets a response.
Risk labels are not judgments. They are action cues that tell VETTS how quickly to reach out and what support to mobilize.
On track
Normal contact schedule and documented progress checkpoints.
Emerging concern
VETTS outreach required within two business days.
Immediate risk
Same-day outreach when practical, otherwise by the next business day.
Employment follow-up30days90days180days365days
Founder
Built from service, education, and lived conviction.
Dr. Vincent Ciarla, Ed.D. · Navy Veteran · Founder & Executive Director/President
Dr. Ciarla brings Navy service, academic advising and new-student orientation experience, doctoral research focused on student-veteran success, and current adult-education teaching in Southern Nevada. VETTS grows from a simple conviction: veterans deserve more than access to a program—they deserve the structure and support to finish, move into meaningful work, and keep advancing.
“Keep Chipping Away.”
Launch with integrity
Ready means provably ready.
VETTS will not enroll participants until the organization can perform every public promise, assign an owner, document evidence, afford it, and sustain it.
✓Nevada formation & charitable compliance
✓Independent Board governance
✓Participant funding runway
✓Approved providers & written agreements
✓Secure participant data systems
✓Staffing & caseload capacity
✓Insurance & financial controls
✓Employer & referral infrastructure
Current phaseControlled buildout & activation readiness
No applications, participant awards, donations, grants, or provider approvals are represented as active.
The future network
One veteran. Many systems.
One coordinated path.
Veterans & familiesTechnical collegesRegistered apprenticeshipsEmployersWorkforce partnersCommunity supportFundersVeteran mentors
Clear from the start
Important questions.
Is VETTS currently accepting applications?+
No. VETTS is in controlled nonprofit buildout and launch-readiness preparation. An application period will not open until critical legal, governance, funding, provider, data-security, and capacity gates are complete.
Will VETTS simply pay tuition?+
No. The model combines coordinated educational gap funding with orientation, an individual success plan, progress monitoring, barrier intervention, employment transition, and long-term follow-up.
How will educational assistance be paid?+
Authorized educational assistance is designed to be paid directly to an approved provider after required verification. Educational funds are not ordinarily paid directly to participants.
Is VETTS a VA or government program?+
No. VETTS is an independent nonprofit initiative. Its eligibility review will not change a military discharge characterization or determine eligibility for VA benefits.
Why begin in Southern Nevada?+
VETTS is designed to prove a high-touch, accountable pilot locally before considering broader scale. Cohort size will be set by real funding, provider readiness, and the number of veterans VETTS can serve exceptionally well.