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LVMAC Tidbit: Free Credentialing Program Available to Veterans
Want to get a foot in the door in the industrial field without a degree and relatively quickly? Want to fine tune what you offer to a prospective employer? Desire to work for the likes of Lutron, B. Braun, Crayola, SussexWire, Victaulic, Tesla, REEB, etc.? (more…)
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LVMAC News: Businesses! We Need Your Help and Thinking
The Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce, working with the Lehigh Valley Military Affairs Council and others, intends to create a formal Veterans and Military Affairs Council. More immediately, it is in the process of making a baseline assessment of those chamber of commerce initiatives most needed. It realizes it must get beyond anecdotal experiences to have informed efforts. Therefore, as part of the assessment, it must conduct a short survey to uncover what problems — if any — local employers are facing in finding, hiring and retaining veterans as employees. (more…)
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LVMAC Tidbit: Battle Borne Launches Vet Peer Group
https://www.facebook.com/lvmac/posts/2430327083739839 ### As of 18 December 2019
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Forward Observer: Bethany UM Adds to Its Military Veteran Family Support Services
As we reported in a 19 September blog, Bethany United Methodist Church located in the Macungie/Wescoville area, intended to conduct two workshops to promote a better understanding of PTSD with the ultimate intention of starting a peer-to-peer support group afterwards.
As a result of those meetings, we have learned that the church has started two of these types of support groups instead: one for male veterans and another for women, whether veterans or spouses or ‘significant others’ — which makes this group unique to the valley when looked at from a veteran’s context. (more…)
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Forward Observer: Something for Other Veterans Organizations to Consider for Their Own Well-Being?
Momentum for PA VFW’s No Smoking Indoors Campaign Continues to March On
There has been loads of talk these days about improving the well-being of military veterans and their families. But without the well-being of chartered veterans organizations such as the VFW, The American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, AMVETS, Vietnam Veterans of America and others also being maintained, that prospect instantly becomes harder. The veterans benefits we have today were largely hard-earned through these organizations. (more…)
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LVMAC Tidbit: Updated Eligibility Requirements for Blue Water Navy Claims
“The Department of Veterans Affairs will soon mail letters to Blue Water Navy veterans and survivors who were previously denied benefits. The letters provide updated eligibility requirements approved in the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2019, the paperwork required of a veteran or survivor, and available resources to assist in the claims process. The law says that veterans who served offshore of the Republic of Vietnam from 1962-1975 are presumed to have been exposed to Agent Orange or other harmful herbicides. Exposure to these herbicides have been linked to a list of several harmful medical conditions: (more…)
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LVMAC Tidbit: Veterans’ Trust Fund Notification of Funding Availability for 2020 Just Announced
We just received word that the period for submitting a grant application to the Veterans’ Trust Fund this from the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. A Governor’s press release is undoubtedly forthcoming, but considering the short deadline, looking at the deadline, we decided not to wait and are spreading the word now. Please help us to through your networks. See below: (more…)
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LVMAC Tidbit: Guess Who Is Coming to the Vet Job and Ed Fair? Are You?
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On November 6, CareerLink Lehigh Valley is again sponsoring a veterans employment and education fair, as it has done annually for a few years now. It is primarily arranged by its employees who themselves are veterans and are keen in helping you find employment.
They thought you might be interested in knowing the employers who will be attending thus far: (more…)
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LVMAC Tidbit: Chess, “the Fairy Tale of 1001 Blunders”, Finds a Purpose
According to some, there is a growing body of empirical evidence that chess can help ease the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) — helping with both cognitive functioning and mental health. In some parts of the country, chess clubs have actively worked with U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals and the VFW. And, chess brings people from all walks of life together more casually through the pleasure of a game — something often missing in our society. Its benefit can be manifold. (more…)