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LVMAC Tidbit: VA Unlocks the Door on Veterans Suicide Prevention — a Radically New Approach Taken
Any Veterans in Suicidal Crisis Can Go to Any Health Care Facility for Free Emergency Healthcare Taking a radically new approach to preventing suicide among veterans, starting January 17, any “veterans in acute suicidal crisis will be able to go to any VA or non-VA health care facility for emergency Read more…
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LVMAC Tidbit: Our Homelessness Agencies Need Veterans to Help in a One Night Stand-To
We Need You! This is the last call for those veterans who have the ability and gumption to go out on a cold night and help with the Lehigh Valley’s 2023 Point in Time (PIT) Count, the single most important data gathering tool for helping to assess and allot homelessness Read more…
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LVMAC Tidbit: Limited Time Offer — Veterans Trust Fund Grants Available
Click on image for active links For the application form, click here. ### As of 16 December 2022
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LVMAC Tidbit: Colonial Penn Move Over, VA is Launching a New Life Insurance Policy
On 1 January 2023, the Department of Veterans Affairs will open enrollment for its new VALife life insurance policy — making life insurance available to more Veterans than ever before. According to the news release, this is the first new VA life insurance program for Veterans in more than 50 Read more…
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LVMAC Tidbit: Retired VA Phone Number Putting Veterans at Risk
Oh, and By the Way, Know Your Shortcut Numbers Today, our VISN-4 Community Relations Office informed us with the message below that a retired VA phone number may put military veterans’ information at risk: The Department of Veterans Affairs established 1-800-MyVA411 (1-800-698-2411) in 2020 to help Veterans, their family Read more…
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LVMAC Tidbit: Ritter School Resumes Veterans Day Interviews and Preparations
Attention Veterans! Ritter Veteran Interview Day Dear Veteran: We are SO happy to say…we are back!! The fifth-grade classes at Ritter Elementary School are studying American History and important Americans. Veterans are important people in America, and our students want to learn more about the contributions veterans have made to Read more…
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LVMAC Tidbit: Immediate Local VA Healthcare … As Easy as 1, 2, 3?
We have previously written about the VISN-4’s Health Chat program, an improvement on the previous longstanding, “night nurse” scheme that has existed for eon’s in the VA Healthcare system. What has not been written about is the investment our VISN-4 has made to get veterans to the “right care, right Read more…
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LVMAC Tidbit: Understanding the PACT Act a Bit Better
At the American Legion’s National Convention on 31 August, Secretary of Veterans Affair McDonough announced that he will make all conditions outlined in the PACT Act, one of the biggest expansions of veteran benefits in history, presumptive from the date President Biden signed the bill into law (August 10). The Read more…