Pilot Programs
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Newly separated veterans will now get phone calls from the VA to talk about benefits and support services
Type of content: News
Veterans Affairs officials are launching a new effort to reach out to recently separated troops to inform them about benefits and support services in an effort to ease transition issues and hopefully prevent more veteran suicides.
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Google Expands Support for Veterans Looking to Compete in Fast-Paced Startups
Type of content: News
Google has expanded its support for transitioning service members, veterans and military spouses looking to make their mark in the fast-paced and demanding business startup community.
Google for Startups, launched by Google in 2011 as Google for Entrepreneurs, announced Tuesday that it is partnering with two small business-focused veteran nonprofits and shoring up its existing relationship with a third.
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VA-Verizon Partnership Offers Unlimited Access to Department’s Video Telehealth Service
Type of content: News
WASHINGTON — As a result of a partnership with Verizon, Veterans who are customers of the telecommunications company, as of June 27, will have unlimited access to the U.S. va logo300Department of Veteran Affairs’ (VA) VA Video Connect telehealth app.
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Military units to reunite for mental health support in new VA pilot to prevent suicide
Type of content: News
WASHINGTON — Mental health professionals in the past have touted the benefits of veterans meeting with peers for counseling sessions to discuss trauma and prevent suicide.
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Dog research at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs gets formal review
Type of content: News
Dog research at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is going under the microscope. Yesterday, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) in Washington, D.C., began a formal review of studies involving nearly 100 canines at four VA facilities to determine whether the animals are being properly treated—and whether the work is necessary.
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Actors and athletes have agents to help them find work. Now vets with PTSD can, too.
Type of content: News
WASHINGTON — After Bob Simonovich’s post-traumatic stress disorder left him anxious around large groups, loud noises and unpredictable environments, he was unsure what type of career he’d be able to handle in his post-military life.
So his therapists lined up a job for him with a baseball team.
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Efforts to help homeless veterans showing progress, VA, HUD leaders say
Type of content: News
WASHINGTON — After the first increase in annual homeless veterans estimates in seven years, the leaders of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development say they are confident in improvements made on the issue in recent months.
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This program could lead to IT careers for military spouses with starting salaries of $70K
Type of content: News
Some military spouses in Washington state have started training for long-term portable careers in technology, with average starting salaries of about $70,000 a year, under a free pilot program launched by Microsoft.
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Google aims to put military veterans back to work with new tools
Type of content: News
Google on Monday launched a series of tools aimed at helping military veterans and their spouses transition to full-time careers once their service has ended, joining other leading companies that have prioritized veteran hiring amid a nationwide skilled labor shortage.
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Service Dog Registries To Streamline Travel For Veterans With 'Invisible Injuries'
Type of content: News
Retired Army Sgt. Kevin Crowell boarded an American Airlines flight from Miami to Key West with his wife and his psychiatric service dog Bella in April 2014. They were heading to a couples retreat sponsored by the Wounded Warrior Project.
Crowell, who has been diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from an explosion during his deployment to Iraq in 2004 and 2005, says he made sure he properly documented the golden retriever over the phone, days ahead of his trip.
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