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VA Healthcare-VISN 4

 

MyVA Community Veterans Engagement Boards

Vision for Excellence

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MyVA Community Veteran Engagement Boards

Bringing together local resources to address the full range of Veterans' needs

My VA - Putting Veterans First.

MyVA Community Veterans Engagement Boards consist of Veteran-centric community stakeholders (such as Veteran service officers, non-profit organizations, and community businesses). They are co-chaired by community stakeholders and supported by VHA, VBA, and NCA leadership. These boards are designed to develop local solutions for Veterans and their families and ease of access to all of the resources available to Veterans. They leverage community assets, not just VA assets, to help ensure the solutions we implement meet the needs of Veterans in our own communities.

Current boards in VISN 4 include:

– MyVA Community Delaware (Wilmington)

– MyVA Southern New Jersey (Cape May, Atlantic, Cumberland, Salem Counties)

– Delaware Valley Veterans Consortium (Philadelphia)

– Still Serving: Military and Veterans in Greater Pittsburgh

One role of the VE Team is to help build and support these boards. The Community Veteran Engagement Boards are a community-driven initiative focused on bringing together local resources to address the full range of a Veteran's needs, which may include medical, psychological, financial, housing, and others. Local VA facility leaders are members of the boards and serve as active participants to help develop the best solutions for local Veterans' issues.

Mr. Skinner, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. Taylor are currently at the ground level of establishing additional MyVA Community networks in VISN 4, and hope to interconnect them all upon completion. The boards may be able to help each other with resources, even if that resource is simply guidance.

"We serve as ambassadors for improving the Veterans' Experience, when and where Veterans interact with VA, and as sentinels for partnerships between the local MyVA Communities and the Veterans they serve in the local area," says Mr. Robinson.

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