Dwyer Peer Support Program News Today

GENESEO – Friends, family and colleagues stood tall in the Livingston County Board Assembly Room to honor Director of Veterans Services Jason Skinner and welcome him into the New York

Zeldin began his political career in a wave of anti-Democrat and anti-New York City sentiment. He was part of the freshman Republicans who retook the state Senate in 2011. Similarly, he rode a second political wave into Congress, this one tinged with the nationalism that characterized opposition to the second Obama administration.

Press release: Assemblyman Steve Hawley (R,C,I-Batavia) joined his colleagues in the Assembly Minority today, as well as Americans Veterans (AMVETS) National Executive Director Joseph R. Chenelly, who the assemblyman had invited to speak, for a press conference proposing a much-needed pandemic relief package known as “Invest in Vets.” The proposal would invest $500 million

The PFC Joseph Dwyer Peer Support Program uses therapies like fly fishing and horse-training to help veterans in New York who experience post traumatic stress or brain injuries.

WAMCs Allison Dunne reports The Pfc. Joseph P. Dwyer Veterans Peer Support Program began in Suffolk County as a pilot program in 2012, providing peer-to-peer support and counseling to veterans and their families. Democratic Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan is an Army veteran. “We know before COVID we were already in the midst of an epidemic of veteran suicide, over 22 veterans a day taking their own lives. And for me and for so many here and on this line, that is deeply personal,” Ryan says...