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Events

10/30 @ Rainier Community Ctr Energy, Utility, Community Affordability Resource Summit & Enrollment Event

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Dear Community Partners & Advocates,

You are invited for a FREE event of essential program highlights that can improve our diverse communities quality of life!  WE are all part of a fabric of our greater diverse communities, let us come together to help our mutual clients!

Energy, Utility, Community Affordability Resource Summit & Enrollment Event

Friday, October 30, 2015

8:30 am-12:00 pm (Open to Service Providers)

1:30 pm – 4:30 pm (Open to Public – Enrollment Event)

Rainier Community Center

4600 38th Ave S, Seattle, WA  98118

 

  • Do you feel you have customers/clients that can benefit from essential programs and emergent basic needs?
  • Would you like to learn up to date program highlights and pertinent information that can provide financial assistance AND save money for other basic needs?
  • Would you like to network with other community program providers?

Please join us at the morning Summit (8:30-Noon) and please share awareness for the enrollment event (1:30 pm – 4:30 pm).  Please feel free to also share this with your community contacts, etc.

For more information or to RSVP by 10/23/15, please contact ASAP due to limited space available:

Brenda.Sevilla-Miranda@Seattle.gov (206) 733-9055

Cynthia.Ellison@Seattle.gov (206) 733-9035

Background:

Started as a result of interagency study (collaborative efforts from various City Depts.)

Purpose:

  • Learn more about City, County, State & Community programs that will help our mutual customers who are in need of basic services
  • Gain insight into what utility assistance programs the City offers and program qualification & guidelines
  • Opportunity to network and collaborate more effectively
  • Helps align with the city’s goal of building stronger families and connecting most vulnerable clients to much needed services

Supports Program Partners Goals:

Builds Strong Families & Healthy Communities–Builds awareness of the many social services programs and helps to alleviate some of their financial worries.  In turn, this effort improves their quality of life as well as helps to improve their health and beyond.  Studies show that there is a strong link to health and economic disparities.  By helping and connecting people with the resources & tools, this will enable them to be more empowered and live a healthier lifestyle.

Socio-Economic Equity– This summit helps to fight poverty in the greater Seattle areas by connecting program managers & community organizations to vital resources that is important to their clients & customers.  Programs such as: utility assistance; energy & water conservation; weatherization; food assistance; health insurance, etc. are all basic needs and helps to keep the customer’s roof over their head.  This event strongly supports socio-economic justice efforts.

Effective Public Engagement- Engaging our diverse communities in a resourceful and respectful way are very important.  Collaborative efforts with grassroots & community organization leaders & staff are critical to our success.  Through this event, we hope to strengthen our networks with our community partners.

Protecting our Precious Resources- Conservation is our most important resource and a resource of choice.  We promote collaboration among City departments, community groups, businesses and residents to be environmental stewards so many generations can enjoy our precious resources and strengthen sustainability.  This summit will provide information on how to conserve energy, water and build conscious efforts about recycling, composting and waste management.

Mission Continues

Recruiting Veterans for Veterans Got Talent Event at Auburn Theater on 11/4 @ 7 p.m.

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DO SOMETHING AWESOME

Recruiting Veterans for Veterans Got Talent Event at Auburn Theater on 11/4 @ 7 p.m.

The Mission Continues is hosting a Vets Got Talent event in Auburn Washington on November 4th with Mayor Nancy Backus as a Celebrity Judge!

Please spread the word that we are on a talent search. We are looking for Veterans who have stage skills of any sort (except fire breathing or dancing, the venue doesn’t support that) so let your Veterans know to sign up here!

Bring out the dance shoes and warm up the pipes!  And be sure to come on down for some Reverence and Revelry on November 4th at 7 p.m. at the Auburn Ave. Theater 10 Auburn Ave, Auburn, WA 98002.

The admission is free. There will be celebrity judges and the winner of the contest will ride as an honoree in THE largest Veterans Day parade in the state on it’s 50th Anniversary! There will be other prizes for the runners up.

VGTFLYER08OCT

Events, Marines

1st Weds. of the Month, Marine for Life – all Employment-Seeking Veterans Welcome – Networking Event

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image002Marine For Life-Seattle
Mission:
To bring Veterans, Employers, Service Organizations and Mentors together in a casual, yet professional atmosphere, with the purpose of connecting transitioning Veterans with local opportunities including careers, education, and mentorship

Marine for Life – LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=6777681&sort=POPULAR&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Agroup%2CclickedEntityId%3A6777681%2Cidx%3A1-1-1%2CtarId%3A1444397770987%2Ctas%3AMarine+for+Life+sea&trk=tyah

Timeline: First Wednesday of each month
11:00 am – 11:45 am – Participants arrive and check-in (PLEASE RSVP through Eventbrite)
11:45 am – 2:00 pm – Formal introductions followed by lunch & networking

Attire: Business casual – Jobseekers dress to impress

Parking: Front and back lots are FREE for Pyramid patrons; no ticket/validation required.

Events, Mission Continues

ROUND 2 AT THE VFW IN WEST SEATTLE 10/17/15 9am – 3pm

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OCTOBER 17, 2015 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

VFW POST 2713 – WEST SEATTLE

3601 SW Alaska St
Seattle, WA 98126

Round 2 at VFW Post 2713

We will apply a second coat of paint inside the Hall while installing the new drapes and rods.

Also the Seattle Stand Down will be using the hall as a space to store their supplies for their upcoming event in December. We will build shelves and bins to give the Stand Down proper space to support the Veterans they serve.

It’s time to Report for Duty with your new Platoon!

WHAT TO WEAR :

Clothes you want paint on.
Mission Continues Shirt
Closed Toed Shoes

PARKING :

Around the area and above the VFW Hall.

Register Here

Obituaries

Passing of Darlene Almeda

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Comrades,
Also, I received information from the Almeda family about Darlene’s services:
Darlene’s internment will be at Tahoma National Cemetery on Friday, 16 October at 1015hrs
Services to follow at All Saints Catholic Church at 1230hrs
A “wake” will then be held at Carlos’ house after the service (pot luck) so remember your funniest Darlene stories……and there’s plenty of them!
I’m sure Carlos would love to hear/see any VFW member, as he feels we’re all family.  If you would like to go to any part of this service, or to his house, or even just send a card, his address is:
Carlos Almeda
10606 32nd St. E
Edgewood, WA  98372
Feel free to share this information.
Thank you all for a great day of remembrance and comradeship.
Traci Williams
Commander
District 11
VA

VFW Report: Veterans Prefer VA Care

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WASHINGTON (September 25, 2015) — One of the greatest ongoing debates in the aftermath of last year’s allegations of patients dying on secret waiting lists is where America’s veterans should get their care. According to a new report released this week by the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, America’s veterans prefer that their care be provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

image003Entitled “Our Care,” the VFW report revealed that where veterans choose to receive their care depends on the number of options they have available. Still, the majority of the 1,847 veterans surveyed prefer to use the VA because they receive high quality care, they regard VA health care as an earned benefit, and they consider VA’s ability to treat service-connected conditions to be unmatched anywhere in the private sector.

“While some may believe the actions taken so far to fix the VA may not be thorough enough or fast enough, our latest report validates that 82 percent, an overwhelming majority of eligible veterans, choose to use their local VA for their medical needs,” said VFW National Commander John A. Biedrzycki Jr. “That’s significant, because it means veterans want to use their VA even though they may have other options ranging from private health insurance to the military’s Tricare program or Medicare or Medicaid.”

The VFW report does reveal that the VA continues to experience problems in the consistency of care, which affects all veterans, but was most recognized by the 101 women and 277 Post-9/11 respondents. Negative press reporting was also noted because it hides the great care provided daily by the vast majority of VA personnel and facilities. The top five factors that survey respondents reported as the main drivers of individual health care decisions were quality of care (92 percent), appointment availability (43 percent), distance to care (33 percent), cost of care (25 percent), and provider reputation or expertise (22 percent).

“The VFW has been at the forefront of helping all veterans to obtain the timely and quality care they earned and deserve,” said Biedrzycki, “and we will continue to work to ensure veterans have a voice when reforming a VA that was created to serve them.”

Read more details about the VFW’s “Our Care” report at http://www.vfw.org/uploadedFiles/VFW.org/VFW_in_DC/VFWOurCareReport2015.pdf.

Congress

Sequestration, Budget, Veterans Top VFW Legislative Agenda

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image003WASHINGTON (September 25, 2015) — More than 70 members of the national legislative committee of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States met with their members of Congress this week to end sequestration, to pass a new budget, and to ensure that a nation that creates veterans properly takes care of them when they return home.

“Sequestration is the most significant threat to military readiness and national security of the 21st century,” exclaimed VFW National Commander John A. Biedrzycki Jr., “and despite almost universal congressional opposition to it, no member of the House or Senate has yet introduced any legislation to end it, which makes zero sense to veterans, service members or their families. The return of mandatory sequestration in fiscal year 2016 has to be dealt with by a Congress that created it,” he said, “just as Congress must continue to properly care and treat generations of wounded, ill and injured veterans that our government created.”

Along with sequestration, the VFW national commander is very concerned that Congress has yet to pass any funding bills for the government’s new fiscal year, which starts Oct. 1, which could trigger another government shutdown similar to last year. “Congress must fund the government and remove the forced sequester provision of the Budget Control Act to ensure that the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs and other agencies that support veterans have the resources needed to defend our nation and to care for those who do the defending,” said Biedrzycki.

Also high on the week’s VFW legislative agenda was ensuring the effective implementation of the Veterans Choice Act to ease access to care issues by VA and non-VA providers, employee accountability, the claims backlog, and eliminating the one-percent Cost-of-Living Adjustment penalty, which jeopardizes the success of every proposal to modernize the current military retirement system.

VFW legislative committee members also delivered advance copies of the organization’s latest report regarding veterans’ options, preferences and expectations when seeking health care. Entitled “Our Care,” the nationwide survey of 1,847 members revealed that where veterans choose to receive their care depends on the number of options they have available, but with all factors being equal, they prefer to use the VA because the continuity and continuum of care they receive is unmatched anywhere in the private sector. Read more about “Our Care” at http://www.vfw.org/uploadedFiles/VFW.org/VFW_in_DC/VFWOurCareReport2015.pdf.

While in Washington the VFW national commander had the opportunity to discuss veterans’ issues with VA Secretary Bob McDonald and Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, as well as receive update briefings by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, and meet with Acting Undersecretary of Defense, the Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy, the Senior Enlisted Advisors of the Joint Chiefs and Navy, and the directors of the Marine Corps and Joint Staffs.