What resources are available to target and locate careers that directly help veterans and/or children?

An off the wall concept hit me as I read your post. With your experience, research organizations that provide services you feel would be beneficial to Vets and young children, then fit your concepts of how you could market the services the company already supplies to other markets into your application. Providing your concept of expanding the companies customer base would certainly have caught my attention when I was reviewing applications.

Have you researched weather proofing a cardboard box? My experience is that is your best bet. Despite the pr bs most seem to only offer veterans the bare minimum if any help at all.

I landed my first career opportunity as a General Manager with G4S in India. Although I am an Expatriate, I was paid the low end of the local salary. However, I was expected to perform three senior functions together. I protested. The Regional President, a Brit with an OBE, explained that the only position available was General Manager in Operations and the vacant positions report to me in the Ops Directorate, which means that I must achieve their goals apart from my own until the HRD fills those vacant spaces. The HRD never filled the vacuum in my section and I never got the extra pay deserved. The Operations Director explained further that as a Veteran of the Armed Forces, the leadership expects more for less out of me. This was their way of reading efficiency and effectiveness.