Veterans Exposed to Depleted Uranium - Veterans For Peace
As a counselor for the Santa Barbara Vet Center , a VA outreach program, I became aware of the PTSD and "survivor guilt' in that community and of things that are useful therapy for those veterans who suffer from PTSD.
A key need is to take care of your fellow combat veterans. In today's military recruits are trained to bring everyone along and leave noone behind. For these reasons many of the returning veterans will find a career helping veterans to be both helpful and fulfilling.
I think I can propose such a career path. The Obama administration will make 3.2 billion dollars available to end homelessness in veterans with 150 million available in the next fiscal year at their Homeless Grants and Per Diem page http://www1.va.gov/HOMELESS/ GPD.asp it seems that there is still 12 million for this fiscal year! Veterans have priority and it could be combined with a non profit management curriculum on the GI bill and used as tutorial/practicum.
Help at all levels can be gotten from Community Partners in the LA area or with organizations listed in the directory in the correspondence below this: Community Partners provides fiscal sponsorship to qualified projects, as an alternative to incorporation as an independent nonprofit organization, mainly in the Los Angeles area. I would encourage you to channel veteran leaders who might be interested in fiscal sponsorship to carefully review the information on their website (http://www.communitypartners. org/fiscal-sponsorship.html).
If after review an individual leader feels that s/he is ready and willing to make a commitment to fiscal sponsorship as a means for realizing their project for housing veterans, I would encourage them to submit a full proposal to Community Partners Incubator Services (see: http://www.communitypartners. org/incubator-services/how-to- apply/) .
Veteran leaders may be interested in seeking out fiscal sponsors in other cities. You can find a directory of other fiscal sponsors in other parts of the country at tides center http://www.tidescenter.org/ become-a-project/additional- resources/fiscal-sponsors/ index.html
The way it works, or could work is that the vet gets most of the funding and per diem through the VA Homeless Grants and Per Diem program: http://www1.va.gov/HOMELESS/ GPD.asp and the rest via community partners or foundations...see http://foundationcenter.org/ collections/ You can also get legal advice to start non profit if you want one: http://www.publiccounsel.org/ overview/cdp.html Many vets and organizations have already opened facilities for the homeless veterans and are receiving grants and per diem already…making it an example of good works that pay. Veterans will have priority with the VA and most other foundations. People in general are eager to see vets work in this realm!
Lifetime Member of Veterans For Peace, Veterans of Foreign Wars and VVA
Veterans Exposed to Depleted Uranium
We are offering to help represent veterans who have been exposed to depleted uranium munitions, dust or radiation and are suffering from cancer or other side effects. We have expertise in medical, legal and administrative law.
We as a chapter of the VFP have started a program and done research to develop a brief for presentation to the VA rating board to obtain service connection disability for the affected veteran. Gulf war I and II vets are encouraged to get in touch with us for information on this project and to register at the Depleted Uranium Registry:
http://www.afip.org/consultation/environmental/du/
Update Oct. 2009: Download the Dept. of Veterans Affairs’ “Evaluation Protocol for Gulf War and Iraqi Freedom Veterans with Potential Exposure to Depleted Uranium (DU)” handbook (pdf format).
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1158
PLEASE CONTACT US WITH ANY QUESTIONS:
Veterans For Peace DU Quest TEL 805 9843322
info@vfpsb.org
or lalapapa@ix.netcom.com , lalapapa4@gmail.com
FURTHER INFORMATION:
http://www.veteransforpeaceny.org/vfpduvets.htm
http://www.afip.org/consultation/environmental/du/
Veterans For Peace Santa Barbara DU Quest: http://www.vfpsb.org/projects/depleted-uranium-quest/
A key need is to take care of your fellow combat veterans. In today's military recruits are trained to bring everyone along and leave noone behind. For these reasons many of the returning veterans will find a career helping veterans to be both helpful and fulfilling.
I think I can propose such a career path. The Obama administration will make 3.2 billion dollars available to end homelessness in veterans with 150 million available in the next fiscal year at their Homeless Grants and Per Diem page http://www1.va.gov/HOMELESS/ GPD.asp it seems that there is still 12 million for this fiscal year! Veterans have priority and it could be combined with a non profit management curriculum on the GI bill and used as tutorial/practicum.
Help at all levels can be gotten from Community Partners in the LA area or with organizations listed in the directory in the correspondence below this: Community Partners provides fiscal sponsorship to qualified projects, as an alternative to incorporation as an independent nonprofit organization, mainly in the Los Angeles area. I would encourage you to channel veteran leaders who might be interested in fiscal sponsorship to carefully review the information on their website (http://www.communitypartners. org/fiscal-sponsorship.html).
If after review an individual leader feels that s/he is ready and willing to make a commitment to fiscal sponsorship as a means for realizing their project for housing veterans, I would encourage them to submit a full proposal to Community Partners Incubator Services (see: http://www.communitypartners. org/incubator-services/how-to- apply/) .
Veteran leaders may be interested in seeking out fiscal sponsors in other cities. You can find a directory of other fiscal sponsors in other parts of the country at tides center http://www.tidescenter.org/ become-a-project/additional- resources/fiscal-sponsors/ index.html
The way it works, or could work is that the vet gets most of the funding and per diem through the VA Homeless Grants and Per Diem program: http://www1.va.gov/HOMELESS/ GPD.asp and the rest via community partners or foundations...see http://foundationcenter.org/ collections/ You can also get legal advice to start non profit if you want one: http://www.publiccounsel.org/ overview/cdp.html Many vets and organizations have already opened facilities for the homeless veterans and are receiving grants and per diem already…making it an example of good works that pay. Veterans will have priority with the VA and most other foundations. People in general are eager to see vets work in this realm!
Lifetime Member of Veterans For Peace, Veterans of Foreign Wars and VVA
Veterans Exposed to Depleted Uranium
We are offering to help represent veterans who have been exposed to depleted uranium munitions, dust or radiation and are suffering from cancer or other side effects. We have expertise in medical, legal and administrative law.
We as a chapter of the VFP have started a program and done research to develop a brief for presentation to the VA rating board to obtain service connection disability for the affected veteran. Gulf war I and II vets are encouraged to get in touch with us for information on this project and to register at the Depleted Uranium Registry:
http://www.afip.org/consultation/environmental/du/
Update Oct. 2009: Download the Dept. of Veterans Affairs’ “Evaluation Protocol for Gulf War and Iraqi Freedom Veterans with Potential Exposure to Depleted Uranium (DU)” handbook (pdf format).
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1158
PLEASE CONTACT US WITH ANY QUESTIONS:
Veterans For Peace DU Quest TEL 805 9843322
info@vfpsb.org
or lalapapa@ix.netcom.com , lalapapa4@gmail.com
FURTHER INFORMATION:
http://www.veteransforpeaceny.org/vfpduvets.htm
http://www.afip.org/consultation/environmental/du/
Veterans For Peace Santa Barbara DU Quest: http://www.vfpsb.org/projects/depleted-uranium-quest/
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