Army Veteran Ursula Draper developed the VA Assistive Technology Program in 2010. The program finds adaptive ways for Veterans to access their environment, such as turning on lights or accessing computers. Draper talks about some of the specific technologies VA has developed to help Veterans.
A VA study found that some Women Veterans had developed unhealthy eating habits such as binging, eating quickly, stress eating and extreme dieting. Often, those habits carried over into civilian life.
More than 100 women Veterans received information and services about benefits at Oklahoma's First Annual Women Veterans Benefits and Resource Fair held recently in Del City, Oklahoma.
WISER and ROVER recovery programs are intensive and require Veterans to leave the world behind for five weeks. Read the valuable descriptions of what they experience and how it helps them recover.
Halli Lannan knows she’s not your usual image of a fashion model. That’s why she walked the runway during Fashion Week. With two master’s degrees, her Ph.D. dissertation has been slowed by chemotherapy.
Three times as many women Veterans are using VA care, benefits, and services now than in 2000, and national efforts are underway to address women specific care.
Additional services covered under the maternity care benefit include: newborn care for up to seven days, lactation services and products (consultation services, breast pumps and supplies), nursing bras, postpartum screenings and support groups. Maternity care coordinators are available at every VA medical center.
Over the last five years, women have accounted for 30 percent of the increase in Veterans that seek out the VA for medical care. Meet some of the women currently leading VA and making VA care and benefits work for women Veterans. This article originally appeared on Military Times at https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/commentary/2019/05/01/meet-the-women-helping-va-work-for-women-veterans/ on May 1, 2019.
Our goal is to increase awareness of women Veterans, in both VA and in the public, and encourage women Veterans to choose VA for their total body wellness.
Our goal is to increase awareness of women Veterans, in both VA and in the public, and to encourage women Veterans to choose VA for their total body wellness.
Laura B. Vela and Lilia A. Garcia were among the 30 Texan Women Veterans featured in the “I Am Not Invisible” campaign.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Twenty-two Women Veterans from the Corpus […]