Women

A report recently released by the Council on Veterans Employment looks at women service members and women Veterans, focusing on their skills and employment in the federal government. The 15-page report, completed by the Women Veterans Initiative Workgroup, provides data collected through their research.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM)—an annual campaign to raise public awareness about sexual assault and to educate communities and individuals about how to prevent sexual violence. This year, VA adopted the theme of “Honoring Veterans’ Voices, Helping Military Sexual Trauma Survivors to Heal” for its SAAM activities.

What works in research labs often takes decades to make it to doctors’ offices and hospital bedsides, where patients might experience it as “evidence based care.” There are many reasons for this slow progress. For one, most research is done in big-city academic hospitals that are unlike where most Americans receive their health care. That makes it hard to adapt what worked under near-perfect situations into real-life healthcare, which is a lot messier. Researchers are also often on their own, many steps removed from healthcare management and policy decision-making.

Four new members have been appointed to the VA Advisory […]

The vision for this campaign was born out of the realization that when our women Veterans from all eras and generations surrender the uniform, they retain the intangible—that combination of resolute resilience and the unbeatable skills they will incorporate into their reintegration and readjustment process.

Each day, VA’s health care providers and staff reaffirm their […]

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The following is cross-posted from Joining Forces. On Tuesday, October […]

The September 2014 unemployment data from the Bureau of Labor […]