NEW YORK - Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Robin Hood Foundation announced new initiatives designed to help veterans find jobs and housing as they transition back to civilian life in New York. Beginning this summer, the City’s Workforce 1 centers will provide priority job placement services for veterans and will open a veteran-specific center in Manhattan to help place more veterans in full and part-time jobs.

This initiative is supported by a grant from Robin Hood to the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, which is dedicated to supporting public-private partnerships and is working with Robin Hood on a range of veteran-specific efforts.

The Mayor also announced efforts to enhance the Workforce1 pilot  through citywide recruitment and job fairs, initial results from the City’s efforts to place homeless veterans in permanent or transitional housing, and plans to create an online tool to help veterans navigate City services.

The announcement took place at Robin Hood’s Veterans Summit on the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum. The Mayor was joined at the conference by Co-Chairs of Robin Hood’s Veterans Advisory Board Admiral Michael Mullen, Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and Steven A. Cohen, business leaders and mayors from several other cities.