Column: New series turns spotlight on veterans services
Submitted by Brett Fisher on Tue, 09/06/2016 - 7:58pm
In February of this year, a coalition of military veterans and community stakeholders came together to form the Carson City Veterans Community Council (CCVCC), a local collaborative effort whose overall goal is to improve the coordination and delivery of direct care services to veterans.
The group was formed in response to the state of Nevada’s Green Zone Initiative, a program of the Governor’s interagency Council on Veterans Affairs designed to get service providers on the same page and make accessing services easier for veterans.
I am honored to have been a part and member of the CCVCC.
Admittedly, though, I sort of feel out of place as a newspaper man.
I’m not a veteran. I don’t provide an essential service to meet the immediate needs of veterans. Other than information, what else could I possibly contribute to help local service veterans get the services they need?
But the fact is, information is an important product that everybody needs and benefits from, including veterans.
Sharing information is really what the CCVCC is all about. If you haven’t yet, please visit the CCVCC’s web page, part of the Municipality of Carson City’s web site.
There you will find a comprehensive listing of area veterans service providers, offering assistance with everything from employment and job training to housing, medical and mental health services, and much more.
I’ve written features on a few of the service organizations, including the Veterans Resource Centers of America, Pets of the Homeless, Adopt-A-Vet Dental Program, the Mobile Vet Center, and Sierra Therapeutic Equestrian Program.
But, as a community stakeholder whose product is information delivery, I know that much more can and should be done to highlight the many other service providers who reach out to veterans and their families.
Beginning this week, I will start writing a new series that places the information spotlight on veterans’ service providers in Northern Nevada.
My hope is that this new series will answer the important questions veterans have about the providers in their area, and encourage them to seek out the services available to them.
There’s an old saying that knowledge is power.
With the right information at their fingertips, I believe veterans and their families can be empowered and will be better served by the words written by this community stakeholder.
I owe it to everybody to serve the public's need for information. But I feel a special duty to those who have laid it all on the line so that I can sit at home and write this.
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