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WASHINGTON, May 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Eric K. Shinseki and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan will share keynote speaker honors during the opening session of the 2012 Annual Conference of the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans (NCHV), May 30, at the Grand Hyatt Washington. More than 500 representatives of community-based organizations serving homeless veterans and their federal...

WASHINGTON, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans has announced that President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama have been selected as recipients of the 2012 Jerald Washington Memorial Founders' Award, the highest honor bestowed by the nation's homeless veteran assistance community. President Obama is the first person to receive the award more than once. He was honored in 2009 as the first president in U.S. history to...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Vietnam Veterans of America holds true that crews who flew the C-123K aircraft contaminated with Agent Orange should be acknowledged by your department to have been exposed to this herbicide, and that those crew members who are afflicted with any of the maladies the VA considers presumptive to service connection ought to be eligible for health care and, when warranted, disability compensation," wrote John Rowan, National...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Wounded Warrior Project(TM) (WWP) today challenged the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to take immediate action to solve systemic gaps in mental health care for veterans. John Roberts, executive vice president of Mental Health and Family Services for WWP, testified before the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs as a follow up to a July 14 hearing on this same issue regarding the VA's mental health care policies. Roberts, who...

National commander "profoundly disappointed" by impasse, concerned about national security consequences WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Legion National Commander Fang A. Wong says he is "profoundly disappointed" that the bipartisan Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (the so-called "supercommittee) failed to reach an agreement to cut $1.2 trillion from the federal budget over the next decade. "They were given an important job to do, and they failed,"...

DOMA is a proud member of the 7 Delta Team, who was awarded a contract on the VA’s TAC 60-month, $12 billion contract to conduct program management, strategy, and planning. Virgniia Beach, Virginia (PRWEB) October 17, 2011 As part of the 7 Delta Team, DOMA Technologies will have the opportunity to expand our support to the VA and improve the quality of healthcare and benefits services to Veterans, their families, and survivors. This builds upon our other recent successful projects...

WASHINGTON, July 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Legion has voiced its strong opposition to a cost cutting proposal by U.S. Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma that would, in the words of the Legion's national commander, "undo the good work of two decades."Sen. Coburn has introduced a proposed amendment to the fiscal year 2012 Military Construction Appropriations (MilCon/VA) Bill that would, in the Legion's opinion, possibly deny benefits to many deserving veterans who...

DELRAY BEACH, Fla., May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Memorial Day, says Florida-based philanthropist Lois Pope, has become more about the unofficial start of summer and a day of huge sales at malls and retails stores across the country and less about its mission: honoring the millions of heroic men and women of our Armed Services who sacrificed so much defending our nation and the freedoms and ideals cherished by our citizenry. That, she says, is unacceptable. And, just as we must ensure that...

WASHINGTON, May 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- An unprecedented Veterans Affairs (VA) research program that promises to advance the sophisticated science of genomics goes national today. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click: http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/va/48429/ (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110505/MM89718 ) "It is my honor," said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki, "to join with so many fellow Veterans in keeping VA at the...

LAKE MARY, Fla., April 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- F4W, Inc. (F4W) announced today that it is providing the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with thirteen of its latest Core communication systems. The systems, which will be placed at VA's twelve Emergency Management Strategic Healthcare Group (EMSHG) regional offices throughout the United States and in the office of VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki, will provide VA with secure, resilient communications in the event of natural...