The Chairman of our Scholarship Committee has asked we announce that submissions for the LVMAC Scholarship must be sent by 30 May 2015 to be considered. For details and application forms, click here. ### As of 6 May 2015
Attention, Lehigh and Northampton county veterans, children and unmarried spouses of military personnel killed in action, children of veterans — and high school seniors enrolling in a higher education institution’s ROTC program with the intention of entering military service, you may be eligible to receive one of eighteen, one-thousand dollar Read more…
A Co-Chair, Carole Reese, for our educational alliance called A’s for Vets (Academics for Veterans) wrote a Town Hall opinion piece for The Morning Call about LVMAC and its upcoming Veterans Education Expo on 28 February, which is primarily designed to assist veterans in receipt of the GI Bill in Read more…
The key purposes of a GI Bill are to assist a returning military veteran in readjusting and retraining for new employment. While not all veterans have the need or seek the use of their educational benefits, approximately 25 per cent of returning veterans do within two years of discharge. It therefore behooves us to pay attention to their needs for us to reap the biggest gain for our society. Academics for Veterans, or A’s for Vets, intends to do just that; and it is about to conduct its first major event with that intention. The LVMAC alliance will conduct an education fair for military veterans and their families on 28 February, beginning at 8 a.m., at Moravian College’s Haupert Union Building. Click here for the details and on how to register while space is available. (more…)
The first Lehigh Valley indoor Stand Down will be conducted by VALOR Clinic Foundation on 28 February between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the El Shaddai Bethlehem Ministries, 529 East Broad Street, Bethlehem, PA. ### As of 8 February 2015
VA Announces Single Regional Framework under MyVA Initiative
Internal Organizations to Realign Their Existing Structures
As a result of last year’s scandals, Washington Headquarters announced on 26 January that is taking the first steps under the MyVA initiative to realign its many organizational maps into one map with five regions utilizing state boundaries to better serve military veterans. We will be part of Region 1 (the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and a couple of South Atlantic states). (more…)
Although we in the Lehigh Valley do not consider ourselves part of Greater Philadelphia, many of us seek employment wherever we can find it — finding good jobs is always an issue. Recently Veterans Recruiting (an organization that had worked with USAA in the past using its virtual job fair technology) has teamed up the with Greater Philadelphia Veterans Network and MedVeteran in an effort to help at least 2,015 veterans find meaningful jobs in 2015. The effort is called the Philly Veterans 2015 Challenge. (more…)
As reported last week (14 January) Mini-Stand Downs are becoming increasingly popular in the Lehigh Valley as a means of finding and assisting the homeless. Various social work agencies, contracting with and responsible to the Department of Veterans Affairs in assisting in eliminating veterans homelessness, are beginning to work together Read more…
Mini-Stand Downs are becoming increasingly popular in the Lehigh Valley as a means of finding and assisting the homeless. Various social work agencies, contracting with and responsible to the Department of Veterans Affairs in assisting in eliminating veterans homelessness, are beginning to work together in a more integrated fashion. It’s about time.
The Lehigh Valley Center for Independent Living is lead agency for the 24 January event in Allentown. (more…)
It’s official the VALOR Clinic Foundation’s Mini-Stand Down for those who are homeless will be conducted on 13 December under the Fahy Bridge on Sand Island in Bethlehem, according to Bob Rapp, Jr., the local coordinator for the organization. The event will run from 10:00 a.m. to 2 p.m. To Read more…