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Army scaling back respite care program
Type of content: News
SOUTHERN PINES — For nearly the past year, Lorraine Weber has welcomed the calming presence of a respite care provider into her home to help with her son Robbie, who has moderate autism.
Robbie commands attention, yelling for his mom and tugging on her while he plays with his dinosaurs and Legos. She does her best to split her attention between Robbie, his sister Madeleine and her husband Robert, a major in the Army who is out of the state for training over the next two months.
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Proposal Extends IVF, Adoption Help for Injured Veterans
Type of content: News
Veterans with reproductive injuries will be able to access fertility help and have some adoption expenses covered after 2018 if a funding proposal goes forward.
The funding bill for the Department of Veterans Affairs approved by a House committee last week gives the agency approval to continue funding in-vitro fertilization after the current 2018 expiration. A 2016 law lifted a longtime ban on the coverage but is set to expire at the end of 2018 if Congress takes no further action.
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- VA
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Survey: Veteran caregivers feel isolated, need more support
Type of content: News
WASHINGTON — Most caregivers of injured veterans feel isolated from friends, unsupported by the government and less healthy because of the demands of their responsibilities, according to a new survey released by Disabled American Veterans on Monday.
But the vast majority are also overwhelmingly proud of the service they provide to their loved ones.
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Falling through the cracks: Military families say their special-needs children are especially vulnerable
Type of content: News
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — When Navy Capt. Cassidy Norman was assigned executive officer of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, he and his wife, Michelle, were relieved. His career path was taking them back to Virginia Beach — where they’d lived before and knew to be a good fit for their severely disabled daughter.
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Some VAs Are Dropping Veteran Caregivers From Their Rolls
Type of content: News
By the time they cut her from the program, Alishia Graham was angry, but not surprised. Her postman delivered the news in February.
"The letter was sitting at the top — and my stomach dropped because I knew what it was," she says.
The letter from the Department of Veterans Affairs informed Graham that her husband Jim, who sustained a brain injury on his third deployment to Iraq, no longer qualified for a caregiver to help with his daily life.
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Facilitating Reentry: A Look at a Campus Give to Support Female Veterans
Type of content: News
The Walmart Foundation's $500,000 grant to Boston University to launch the Women Veterans Network (WoVeN), represents a confluence of two timely trends across the modern philanthropy space. First, the robust efforts from corporate funders to reintegrate veterans into society, and two, the emergence of the college campus as the epicenter for such efforts.
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How can the White House better focus on veterans needs?
Type of content: News
More than 21 million of our fellow citizens now carry the title of “veteran.” Since 2001, almost 3 million of those veterans have deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, and more than a million have deployed more than once.
Most of them will transition smoothly into civilian life. Yet too many veterans and military families face challenges finding meaningful employment, earning a college degree, securing housing, and receiving treatment for physical and mental health problems.
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Study: Academic performance varies widely among districts serving military students
Type of content: News
The academic performance of students in states with large populations of military-connected students varies “dramatically,” according to a new study about the challenges that affect military children’s education.
Because of the importance military families place on the education of their children, this forces some difficult decisions — such as choosing a long commute in favor of a better-performing school district farther from base.
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VA to start offering IVF services to veterans this spring
Type of content: News
The Department of Veterans Affairs will start offering in vitro fertilization services to injured veterans for the first time in March, under new rules released Thursday.
The move comes just a few months after Congress dropped a ban on the procedure for veterans and their spouses, the result of a yearslong push from advocates who called the restrictions unfair to individuals who sacrificed for the country.
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Troops, veterans and military families can track down a college scholarship with this new search tool
Type of content: News
'Tis the season for seeking out scholarships, and the Fisher House Foundation has launched a free search tool to help troops, veterans and families get their share of these education-budget boosters.
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