{"id":149528,"date":"2024-04-14T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=149528"},"modified":"2024-04-14T22:43:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T22:43:28","slug":"reaching-veterans-in-southeast-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=149528","title":{"rendered":"Reaching Veterans in Southeast Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Partnering with a local community church, Southeast Louisiana VA<\/a> hosted a Veterans Info & Benefits Fair in New Orleans East. Nearly 200 people registered for the event.<\/p>\n

VA experts answered Veterans\u2019 questions on a wide range of topics including VA eligibility and enrollment, scheduling an appointment with a benefits counselor, claim assistance, suicide prevention and PACT Act Information.<\/p>\n

\n
<\/a>
Service Representative Felicia Vaughn explains how to set up an appointment to find out more about VA benefits<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cWe all have to remember that VA\u2019s top clinical priority is preventing Veteran suicide,\u201d said Renard Dominique, community engagement & partnerships coordinator. \u201cEverything we do is focusing on that goal. You don\u2019t have to own a gun to advocate for gun-owning Veterans to be safe and secure with their ownership just as you don\u2019t have to own a car to tell someone to drive safely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pictured above, Outreach Coordinator Cynthia Marquez distributes PACT Act information to Veterans.<\/p>\n

A booth at the event was set up specifically for women Veterans. Danielle Weber provided information on women\u2019s health primary care providers, mammograms, breast health, cervical cancer screening, maternity care coordination, a new pelvic therapy clinic and other related topics.<\/p>\n

Weber is a registered nurse navigator with the Women Veterans Program. \u201cOutreach events like this help put a friendly face on site to answer questions, relate concerns and connect. Face-to-face interaction allows for a personal rapport, a partnership, a sense of trust. I enjoy meeting and speaking with our Veterans in the community.\u00a0It is an absolute treat to just listen,\u201d Weber said.<\/p>\n

Through outreach, we serve Veterans better<\/h2>\n

Southeast Louisiana VA regularly holds outreach events across the area it serves.<\/p>\n

\u201cOutreach events like this provide us with yet another opportunity to serve Veterans in Southeast Louisiana. It\u2019s important we make this connection with our Veterans,\u201d said Fernando O. Rivera, medical center director. \u201cOur staff serve Veterans at our main facility and our seven community-based outreach clinics, but it\u2019s critical to meet and talk with them in their neighborhoods and places they frequent. We want them to know VA is as much a part of the community as they are and through outreach we can learn to better serve them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Partnering with a local community church, Southeast Louisiana VA hosted a Veterans Info & Benefits Fair in New Orleans East. Nearly 200 people registered for the event. VA experts answered Veterans\u2019 questions on a wide range of topics including VA eligibility and enrollment, scheduling an appointment with a benefits counselor, claim assistance, suicide prevention and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":149530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149534,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149528\/revisions\/149534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/149530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}