2011 Women Veterans Summit
"Continuing Our Journey...Giving Back and Paying Forward"
WA State Women Veterans Summit a Success!
I’d like to send a huge Thank You to each of the woman veterans and active duty military personnel who attended our Women Veterans Summit on June 18th! Your participation demonstrates the need for additional awareness and attention to the unique issues facing the women who wore (or are wearing) the uniform. I would also like to commend our Women Veterans Advisory Committee for their work in making this a first class event. We gathered these mothers, sisters, grandmothers and friends together, along with exhibitors and service providers to talk about issues ranging from VA benefits, to health care, to personal finance and how to start a business. With women making up 15% of our military personnel today, we at the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs want to be sure our veterans know they can turn to us for help. If you know a veteran who needs help, please let me know how we can reach them either by sending an e-mail or calling 1-800-562-2308.
Lourdes "Alfie" Alvarado-Ramos
Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom. That our resolve was just as great as the brave men who stood among us. And with victory our hearts were just as full and beat just as fast - that the tears fell just as hard - For those we left behind."
Army Nurse WWII
MISSION AND GOALS The mission of the WDVA Women Veterans Advisory Committee shall be to ensure that Washington's women veterans have equitable access to federal and state veterans' services and benefits.The goals are to:
Perform outreach to improve women veterans' awareness of eligibility for federal and state veterans' services and benefits;
Assess the needs of women veterans with respect to improve the Women Veterans Program;
Make recommendations to the Director to improve benefits and services;
Review programs, research projects, and other initiatives designed to address or meet the needs of women veterans;
Incorporate women veterans' issues in the Department's strategic plan;and
Participate in National forums and committees for women veterans.
The program shall provide assistance to women who served in the United States Armed Forces or in forces incorporated as part of the United States Armed Forces, and who were discharged under conditions other than dishonorable. WVAC Committee Member Biographies
Did you know that every VA Medical Center has a Women Veterans Program Manager(WVPM), who helps women understand their benefits and coordinates their care?
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