Reply
05/12/2021
MANATEE COUNTY, FL (May 12, 2021) - Lee Washington, Manatee County Veterans Services Officer, was elected last week as President of the County Veterans Services Officer Association of Florida (CVSOAF), a two-year position. Most recently he held the position of Senior Vice-President from May 2018 to May 2021.
Subscribe
Representing all 67 of Florida s county Veterans Services offices, the President advocates for Veterans and their families, coordinates with the Florida Department of Veterans Affairs (FDVA), Disabled American Veterans (DAV), American Legion & Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) on new requirements of accreditation for its members and oversees the semi-annual training and annual recertification courses held in May and October.
More than money needed to fix problems at Department of Veterans Affairs
Craig Patrick reports
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The Biden administration wants to increase funding for veterans’ health care. President Biden is proposing an additional $8.5 billion in services for veterans next year, in addition to $18 billion to improve VA medical centers in his infrastructure plan.
But the Department of Veterans Affairs has faced some challenges that money alone can’t fix.
One of the most common complaints from veterans is that their benefits are wrongly denied and they have to wait months of years for their appeals.
For example, a month after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, the VA denied Keith Brown’s claim, then after months of back and forth, it approved his benefits six days before he died.
Action Zone Veteran entrepreneurs take part in a 2019 class at Action Zone in Tampa. The non-profit organization moved online in 2020 to continue its classes in entrepreneurship for veterans.
The pandemic has forced some veteran-owned businesses to close. But other veteran entrepreneurs say their military experience has helped them withstand hardship.
Army veteran Natacha Delince served two tours in Iraq. While she was deployed, a crisis was unfolding at home. Towards the end of my military career, my Mom had gotten sick, she said. So that kind of opened the gateway and exposed me to healthcare.
When she left the Army in 2012, Delince had to move her mother into a nursing home. She also decided to pursue healthcare as a career - first as a nursing assistant, then as a healthcare administrator. She said the experience of watching her mother decline and die in a nursing home was traumatic. She wasn t aware there were other options, like a group home.
Takeaways from Tallahassee — Forward March floridapolitics.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from floridapolitics.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A ânational centerâ to reduce veteran suicide? No thank you | Column
Waiting for the phone call to a crisis line is often too little, too late.
Â
Published Feb. 19
Updated Feb. 19
K9 Partners for Patriots is a nonprofit in Brooksville for veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) or Military Sexual Trauma (MST). We exist to prevent veteran suicide, and our mission is to assimilate veterans back into society as contributing members.
Ron Flaville [ Provided ]
We join the
Tampa Bay Times Editorial Board in its desire to âfind more ways to identify and help veterans in distress,â but we doubt that âcreating a national centerâ would bring us closer to reducing veteran suicide. According to the Veterans Health Administration, our government