Partnerships

VA is partnering with four technology organizations — CaringBridge, IBM, […]

This approach considers that only about 30 percent of Veterans use VA health care — underscoring the need for innovative ways to connect Veterans to resources and information.

Now in its fifth year, Operation: GoodJobs continues to provide tools and resources that link Veterans and military families with meaningful work so that they can access financial stability they have earned.

The directory provides information covering a variety of topics, including benefits and compensation, education, homeless assistance, housing and other services.

“You can do it—I was homeless, I didn’t have anywhere to go. I just kept pushing and pushing, and the opportunity came up, and I took it. You just can’t stop trying.”

VA announced a collaboration encouraging women to donate their brains for the purpose of research of the effects of traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.

In the first year of the partnership, Bombas delivered over 700 pairs of socks to the VA New York Harbor Health Care System that were then distributed to homeless Veterans by way of homeless shelters, VA community-based outpatient clinics and VA medical centers.

Sponsored by the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, the project brings together experts from within and outside VA to develop the VA-PALS Implementation Network (VA-Partnership to increase Access to Lung Screening). I

Through VA and its range of community partners, homeless Veterans are housed and then given access to the specific resources they need to stay housed so that they can achieve their full potential.

The annual event assembled more than 350 participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of TBI and concussion.

VA, VFW and Walgreens will work together to reach Veterans in communities across the country with targeted initiatives to address mental health awareness and treatment, Veteran suicide prevention and opioid overdose education.

40 military moms-to-be, including women serving in the military and military spouses, were “showered with love” at this special event.