Veteran Affairs by https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y Helping the forgotten en-us 2017-03-07 19:26:12 UTC 2017-05-17 02:54:14 UTC hello@padlet.com zumqid https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/159098662 2017-03-09 19:15:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/159098662 Description: ehtcic https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/159788556 Our organization believes that our veterans need additional support during their transition back into society. We offer financial, mental health, family, and other resources to help our veterans, when coming home. We provide specialists who are trained to assist anyone, from newly paralyzed individuals and their family members, to people who lived that has dealt with their injury for some time. ]]> 2017-03-13 18:27:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/159788556 Group Members: ehtcic https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/159795709 Cody, Adam, Taran ENC 40S]]> 2017-03-13 18:49:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/159795709 Veteran Transition Network ehtcic https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/159798952 This organization works to make the veterans be welcomed home and letting them know that everyone is there for them. They have many courses for dealing with PTSD. Courses to help you to connect with your family. financial aid while they look for work, or go back to school for a profession. They make sure that veterans have complete access to the care and resources that they need. The organization sets up the veterans, so they can have a chance to adjust comfortably into their new life.

 Dr. Marv Westwood, David Kuhl, and Tim Black are the founders of Veteran  Transition Network. Dr. Marv was the original founder of the organization.

 All the funds are raised by supporters. The biggest supporters are: Boeing, Brenda and Ken Stewart, DCSWVA, The Royal Canadian Legion, The Winnipeg foundation, and True Patriot Love.

83 cents from every dollar raised goes towards the program. The VTN was started after Dr. Marv Westwood met his wife’s Uncle Jack at a family function. Jack, a veteran of World War II, struggled with alcoholism and judgement from family for years. The two men sat down and struck up a conversation about Jack’s experience during the war. It was then that the veteran, for the first time in his life, revealed that he had killed a man with his bare hands during the war. It had haunted him ever since, and finally being able to open up relieved Jack of the heavy burden he had been carrying his entire life. That moment inspired Dr. Westwood to create opportunities for other veterans to share their stories, and experience the same relief that Jack had felt.

If you want to get involved. All you need to do is sign up online or make a call in to the head office.

Address
#518 – 470 Granville Street
Vancouver, BC – V6C 1V5
Phone: 604.559.8155 (Vancouver)
Toll-Free: 1-844-CDN-VETS (236-8387)
Business Hours
9:00am–5:00pm M-F, PST (GMT-8)
https://vtncanada.org/?gclid=CIC9zIGY7dICFVi4wAodGFQBGg
]]> 2017-03-13 18:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/159798952 The recon & sniper foundation rfjlur https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/160635781 The united states loses about 22 veterans, due to suicide. Following some if their close friends they started the R&S foundation, to help veterans back into the civilian life

The founder of the organization is John Brown(President),  David Guzinsky(Vice president), Sonny Morgan(Director), Kelby Price(Director), Devin Daniels(Case Manager), Joshua Grantham(Genreal Council)

This foundation focuses on its resources on financial funding, professional development, career mentoring, and active network building, by putting them with former veteran affair employees, veteran employment NPO's corporations and individuals, they are able to provide accepted veteran applicants, with a supporting infrastructure that accelerates their transition home. They also help connect them with their team mates that will help fill the void in their life after war.

This organization is funded by donations they use 36% of the revenue for veterans and their families, within the first year they only spent 14% of their revenue on operating costs.

These are some words from former marines:
 Pushing all my pride aside, I received monetary assistance to make rent and other bills from the group of men who formed the R&S Foundation. I’ve received no judgment for asking for help. I’m not looked at in a different light. All the help was organically generated by my fellow Reconnaissance/Scout Snipers/SARCs. We live what we preach. Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you. Arrugha!

The responsiveness and get it done attitude that we Recon Marines pride ourselves in is alive and well within the R&S Foundation. Their willingness to help a brother in need, without hesitation was truly amazing and made me proud to be a Recon Marine. The R&S foundation with be there to help pull you to your feet so that you can continue mission. Thanks so much for the help.

2947 Spickert Knob Rd, Floyd's Knobs, IN 47119
(844) 854-1032
info@reconsniperfoundation.org]]> 2017-03-16 18:42:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/160635781 Army veteran phone call goes to voicemail rfjlur https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/161634710 http://www.localmemphis.com/news/local-news/veterans-futile-call-to-va-prompts-congress-members-to-act/376735767
Dennis Magnasco is an army veteran who was trying to contact a doctor, for a doctors appointment through his local Veteran affairs clinic, in Bedford, Massachusetts, but he was not able to get through and was sent straight to voicemail multiple times. So he filmed himself on speaker to show everyone. ]]> 2017-03-21 19:02:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/161634710 Lionel Desmond rfjlur https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/161638174 The federal government will be covering the costs of the funerals of Afghanistan war veteran Lionel Desmond and the three members of his family he's believed to have killed this week at their home in rural Nova Scotia. 
Shanna Desmond, 10-year-old Aaliyah Desmond and her grandmother Brenda Desmond were found dead from gunshot wounds in Upper Big Tracadie, N.S., Tuesday night. Retired corporal Lionel Desmond shot them and then shot himself, RCMP say. 
Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr phoned family members Saturday, his press secretary Sarah McMaster said. 
Lionel Desmond's sister Cassandra says her family learned Saturday afternoon that Veterans Affairs would be covering the costs of the funerals.

]]> 2017-03-21 19:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/161638174 Thousands of veterans will lose their insurance ehtcic https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/162230608 http://time.com/money/4699647/gop-health-care-plan-veterans/
Veterans are not being helped by Obamacare or by the ACHA (American health care act). they and their families can't afford their hospital bills. These veterans aren't meeting the criteria for aid in the VAs books. The VA doesn't have enough staff or finances or resources to help all of the veterans.]]> 2017-03-23 18:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/162230608 VA suicide hotline has problems ehtcic https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/162236287 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/20/veterans-affairs-suicide-hotline-still-sending-calls-to-backup-centers/99405862/
VAs suicide line isn't efficient. The VA has no way of tracking how many calls come in. They have no way of checking to see if their operators are actually preventing suicides. Their backup systems have been engaged because of the number of calls that have come in. Veterans are being put on hold.]]> 2017-03-23 18:20:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/162236287 Vets Canada zumqid https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/162236473 Vets Canada was created in 2010/2011 by a veteran by the name of Jim Lowther. Jim had noticed that there where veterans that were not making proper transition back into society from their military careers.This organization has developed into a federally registered non-profit organization. The net worth of this organization is 135,000 and there are hundreds of volunteers mostly consisting of ex-military/RCMP. The main objective of this organization is to identify homeless veterans and help them get into affordable housing and help them to make a healthy transition into society.
http://vetscanada.org/]]> 2017-03-23 18:20:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/162236473 Elderly veteran lays on floor in a VA medical center ehtcic https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/162242299 http://freebeacon.com/issues/elderly-veteran-lays-on-floor-while-waiting-at-va-facility/
Veteran is yelled at by a nurse for lying on the floor in the waiting room. He had been waiting to see a doctor for hours. The man couldn't get off the floor and wouldn't until he could see a doctor.]]> 2017-03-23 18:37:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/162242299 VA health care compared to Disney Land rfjlur https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/162249808 A Obama official spoke about VA Medical Treatment, and how he compared it to Disney Land, the time it takes to get medical treatment. He said that it's like waiting for a ride in Disney Land ,you get impatient and annoyed at the time it takes. Just like vets waiting to get health care.  ]]> 2017-03-23 19:04:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/162249808 CAT foundation ehtcic https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/162484193 The founders of this organization are Cody Lindal, Adam Esau, and Taran Gerbrandt. Cody is the CEO. Adam is the vice-president of the organization. Taran is just a janitor... 

We feel that Veterans do not receive the resources or appreciation that is due after coming back into civilian life. 

Our objective is to support veterans financially, mentally, and physically, after returning from combat. To help them cope with the horrors of war and what they have witnessed. To help them reunite with family, and help them reunite with their comrades.  We strive to make Veterans transitions into civilian life, easy and quick. We want to make sure that Veterans have access to everything that they need.

We have programs to help Veterans deal with PTSD. We reunite soldiers with their families and their comrades. We offer financial support while trying to reassert them back to a normal civilian life.

We are funded by donations, anyone can donate through our website, it is easy and quick. It can be very effective if we get the word out to big organizations and companies.

People can sign up online through our website, to get involved, from there you can donate or learn about the CAT foundation.

Call us at Toll free: 1(555)-222-1438
Or sign up at: WWW.CAT.org
Call now]]> 2017-03-24 17:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/162484193 Advocate says: More Female Veterans Reporting Homeless zumqid https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/162485505 According to a charity that helps homeless veterans the number of homeless female veterans has dramatically increased over the last two years. The charity says that the number of women accessing its services went from six percent in 2015 to sixteen percent in 2016
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/more-female-veterans-reporting-homelessness-advocate-says-1.4008308]]> 2017-03-24 17:31:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/162485505 Vets Canada Looking to help Female Veterans zumqid https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/162489632 Volunteers from this organization are visiting both women's and family shelters throughout the country.They are also donating care supplies and money to a local shelter in Halifax.
http://globalnews.ca/news/3288020/vets-canada-looking-to-help-female-veterans/]]> 2017-03-24 17:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/162489632 Veterans advisory group to hold meeting on suicide prevention zumqid https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/162492185 An expert group is advising veterans affairs minister Kent Hehr on mental health, focusing on suicide prevention.Several veterans and mental heath specialists are having meetings discussing the issue of suicide. Many of the veterans on the committee say this is a long overdue step for veteran affairs.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/veterans-advisory-group-to-hold-meeting-on-suicide-prevention/article34345456/]]> 2017-03-24 17:57:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ehtcic/8xrp4ri9bn0y/wish/162492185