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Veteran's
E-News (January 2008) |
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Equine Assisted Readjustment Program
Volunteer
VETERANS MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER’S
EQUINE ASSISTED READJUSTMENT PROGRAM VOLUNTEER
UPDATE
To Whom It May Concern,
I am currently in training for certification in
the field of therapeutic riding, and would very
much like to work as a volunteer with veterans.
I am actually writing from my home in Ct., but
haven't found a program in this area that is up
and running. |
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IBOT Wheelchairs desperately want owners
IBOT Wheelchairs desperately want owners ...
Help them find a wounded vet
Pat Rowe Kerr has 11 IBOT wheelchairs
desperately trying to find wounded vets that
will love and care for them.
What a wonderful way to start the New Year...
Can you please help this happen? Could you send
a note out to your newsletters / organization /
chapter, etc.? It makes no sense to have a state
of the art wheelchair that brings a wounded vet
up to eye level, sitting in a factory, when we
know there are many that could use this support
and morale booster.
Please use Pat's Blackberry email address to
get in touch with her.
Pat Rowe Kerr |
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Lawmakers seek to boost home-buying
benefit
The House Veterans’ Affairs Committee is
focusing on how to use the veterans’ home loan
program to help service members and veterans who
risk losing their homes.
Reps. Steve Buyer, R-Ind., and Mike Michaud,
D-Maine, introduced a bill Thursday that would
greatly increase the maximum loan amount that
the Department of Veterans Affairs guarantees.
The bill, HR 4539, would raise the current
$417,000 limit to a new maximum of $521,250.
Buyer, the former committee chairman, said the
chief reason for the increase is that the
$417,000 cap is so low that it precludes service
members and veterans from using the program in
some high-cost areas of the country. |
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Manganese Exposures for Navy Workers
US NAVY BT's, Boilermakers, Boilerman, Boiler
tech's
Manganese Exposures for Navy Workers
This information was taken from a study
conducted by the Navy Environmental Health
Center. It suggests that Navy personnel may be
at risk for exposure to manganese. Conclusions
presented in this study should be considered by
DA Health authorities to determine if similar
exposure potentials exist for Army personnel.
In June 1996, the Deputy Under Secretary of
Defense (Environmental Security) requested an
evaluation of manganese exposures to Navy
workers, and an assessment of the impact of a
reduced manganese standard. |
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Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune
- Between 1957 and 1987
If you lived or worked on Marine Corps Base Camp
Lejeune, between 1957 and 1987, you may have
been exposed to contaminated drinking water.
The United States Marine Corps encourages all
those who resided on the base prior to 1987 to
register at the official Camp Lejeune water
study website to receive updated information and
notifications regarding the ongoing water study.
The Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease
Registry (ATSDR), a federal public health
agency, is conducting this study to determine
whether potential health risks are associated
with exposure to the impacted drinking water.
The projected completion of the study is
expected mid-2008. At that time the Marine Corps
will notify former residents with the results. |
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Peake Sworn in As VA Secretary
New Leader Pledges to Look to the Future
http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel
WASHINGTON (December 20, 2007) - In a ceremony
today Dr. James B. Peake, a combat veteran of
the Vietnam War and former Army Surgeon General,
was sworn in by President George W. Bush as the
nation's sixth Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
"Dr. Peake takes office at a critical moment in
the history of this Department," said President
Bush. "Our nation is at war - and many new
veterans are leaving the battlefield and
entering the VA system. This system provides our
veterans with the finest care - but the
bureaucracy can be difficult to navigate." |
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VA Agrees with Key Points about PTSD
Treatment
In New Institute of Medicine Report
http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel
WASHINGTON (October 18, 2007) - The Department
of Veterans Affairs (VA) today agreed with a new
Institute of Medicine (IOM) report finding
exposure-based therapies for the treatment of
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to be
effective.
The report released today by the IOM Committee
on Treatment of PTSD concluded among its key
findings that exposure-based therapies such as
prolonged exposure therapy and cognitive
processing therapy have proven to be effective
treatments for PTSD, while more research is
needed on pharmacotherapy to determine its
effectiveness.
"VA is pleased to see IOM agrees with us that
exposure-based therapies are effective
treatments for PTSD," said Dr. Antonette Zeiss,
VA's Deputy Chief of Mental Health Services. "VA
has been making the therapies readily available,
even before the IOM report was released." |
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