PNGAS Guard-Friendly High School Application
The Pennsylvania National Guard Associations (“PNGAS”) is the only organization solely dedicated to the 18,000 members and more than 67,500 veterans of the Pennsylvania National Guard, their spouses, and their families. In the next 12-months, the Pennsylvania National Guard must recruit more than 2,300 new members to replace Guard members that have completed their commitments and/or retired. Accordingly, PNGAS activities help ensure the Pennsylvania National Guard is fully funded, manned, equipped, and trained to perform their mission and that members, veterans, spouses and their families get the benefits they have earned.

The Education Assistance Program ("EAP") is the number one recruiting tool for the Pennsylvania National Guard.  The Military Family Education Program ("MFEP") is the number one retention tool for the Pennsylvania National Guard. In total a Guard member can get a $64,000 tuition benefit, with the EAP (for the Guard Member) and MFEP (for their spouse and/or children) to attend one of 488 approved schools based in Pennsylvania.

Strengthening recruitment and retention rates of our well-trained Guard members is cost-effective, strategic, and wise with strong taxpayer ROI.  

To optimize taxpayer funds and the positive impacts of these programs for recruitment and retention, PNGAS continues to collect, share and promote best practices among K-12, colleges, universities, trade, certification and training schools.  

Accordingly, the PNGAS Guard Friendly High School designation and logo are designed to showcase and promote the High Schools using a range of best practices for the recruitment and promotion of members and veterans of the Pennsylvania National Guard and their families.

“With the successes of the PNGAS Guard Friendly School program, we want to spur the same synergies and
best practices with High Schools. stated Kathleen Fabrizi, Executive Director, PNGAS. “Our PNGAS Education Action Council ("EAC") Chairman, Joseph Dagney and the inspired leaders on the EAC are delivering great awareness, optics, collaboration, and best practices with our High Schools. Thank you!

The application process is straightforward. The PNGAS goal is to grow the number of PNGAS Guard Friendly High Schools across the Commonwealth while increasing awareness of best practice standards for student recruitment and promotion of the Pennsylvania National Guard.  Once approved with the designation, we hope high schools stay the course and maintain and improve their programs and protocols to retain the designation.

Each application will be reviewed for completeness by PNGAS. Your scores may be peer-reviewed. A point system will be established to determine the threshold for designation, at the sole determination of PNGAS.

All high schools are encouraged to apply.
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What high school do you represent? *
Please provide website link to your school.  it works best if you cut and paste your website link from the internet, thanks!
Who is your high school's official point of contact, address, phone and email?
Is the Pennsylvania National Guard welcome in your high school?
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Does your high school permit the Pennsylvania National Guard to recruit inside your high school?
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Does your high school make announcements and/or permit signs and marketing materials in advance, and on the day of a recruiting visit by recruiters of the Pennsylvania National Guard?
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Does your school make an announcement over the loud speaker, through a social media post or other means, when a student from the school enlists in the Pennsylvania National Guard or the US military?
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Does your school allow National Guard recruiters to make and have appointments with students inside the high school or through virtual appointments?
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Does your high school invite National Guard recruiters to speak to students, classrooms, group-settings, assemblies or open forums?
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Does your high school provide a room, space or virtual meeting room for National Guard recruiters to meet with students?
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Does your high school invite National Guard recruiters to meet with administrators, counselors and/or faculty during planning-days, in-service days, or any other days to provide updates on the National Guard, its $64,000 tuition benefits for each member of the Guard, as well as GI Bill and other benefits?
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Does your high school actively inform recruiters of the National Guard of events, activities and programs they can attend and participate in, like,  sporting events, musicals, plays, concerts or other school activities ?
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Does your high school promote or share information on the $64,000 in tuition benefits and other benefits if a student joins the Pennsylvania National Guard?
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Does your high school provide National Guard recruiters with parking passes when they visit your high school?
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Does your high school permit JROTC, Civil Air Patrol, Young Marines, US Navy Sea Cadets Corp Hawk Mountain Ranger School, STARBASE or similar programs to meet with students?
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Does your high school permit the promotion, marketing and outreach of one or all of the following: JROTC, Civil Air Patrol, Young Marines, US Navy Sea Cadets Corp, Hawk Mountain Ranger School, STARBASE?
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Does your high school return phone calls and emails from National Guard recruiters?
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Does one of your high school graduates enlist in the Pennsylvania National Guard every year?
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Does your high school invite back former students that are/were members of the National Guard or military to speak to students about careers and service in the National Guard and/or US military?
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Does  your high school permit students to enlist early and attend basic training the summer before their senior year of high school?
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Does your high school post its job opportunities and job postings on the PNGAS Job Board?
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Does your high school hire members, veterans, or spouses of the Pennsylvania National Guard?
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Has your high school applied for the PNGAS Guard Friendly Employer designation?
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On behalf of your high school, you acknowledge the following information:
What can PNGAS do with your high school? *
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(Optional) At the next PNGAS Higher Education Breakfast and similar events, are there any topics, issues or content you would like PNGAS to add to the programming?
(Optional) Can you share some best practices implemented in the past 3 years that have made your high school more Guard-Friendly?
(Optional) Do you have any special programs, incentives, activities, programs or offerings you would like promoted by PNGAS to members, recruiters and/or leaders of the Pennsylvania National Guard?
(Optional) Do you have any ideas you would like to share that could help make the Pennsylvania National Guard or PNGAS more effective in promoting the EAP and MFEP, the $64,000 tuition benefit for each Guard member?
Would you like to receive future updates from PNGAS?  Please note, your email address will NOT be sold or distributed to anyone else. *
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Do you know someone else we should invite to participate?  Can you share their name, organization and email/phone number?
Your Email Address (To prove you are human, avoid multiple submissions, help us validate results) Your email address will NOT be sold or distributed! *
Your Phone Number
On behalf of Chad Rettew, Chairman, Board of Directors,  PNGAS; Kathleen Fabrizi, Executive Director, PNGAS; and Joseph Dagney, Chairman of the PNGAS Education Action Council (EAC), we want to thank everyone that contributed to the development of the PNGAS Guard Friendly high School designation and for every high school that submits an application.  Thank you!
Thank you from PNGAS, www.PNGAS.org 
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