Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency hosts annual Veteran Service Officer conference

The Michigan Veterans Affairs Company (MVAA) organized the second annual Veteran Service Officer (VSO) convention, 11-13 February, within the Grand Traverse Resort in Acme.

The purpose of the annual occasion is to carry VSOs from your entire state collectively to learn to finest affect the lives of veterans and their households of their communities. Greater than 100 attendees from your entire state have turn out to be members of audio system, colleague assist organizations and the CMVA to learn to finest serve our nation.

A VSO is an professional on the topic that has been educated and accredited by the US Division of Veterans Affairs (VA) who guides veterans and their households via the method of making use of for VA advantages.

“It’s essential for the well-being of the greater than 516,000 veterans of Michigan that we carry collectively the VSOs,” says Stefanie Macdonald, MVAA VSO supervisor. “Whether or not the VSO works for the state, the province or an skilled service group, it will be important that all of them have the most recent data and coaching to finest assist the veterans with which they arrive into contact with each day. VSOs are the lifeline for a lot of veterans and their households to get them linked to the advantages they’ve earned. “

Veterans are sometimes confronted with mountains of paperwork and VSOs are effectively knowledgeable about the advantages and providers of veterans and might navigate via the typically sophisticated programs.
Service members and veterans or their members of the family can contact the Michigan Veterans Useful resource Service Middle on 1-800-Mich-Negel (1-800-642-4838) for extra details about lace-up advantages and assets.

For extra data, go to www.michigan.gov/mvaa.

Michigan Veterans Affairs Company Personnel obtainable to attend Veterans Occasions

Staff of Michigan Veterans Affairs Company (MvAA) can be found to attend and/or to talk at occasions for veterans or occasions that veteran issues entail. To request MVAA staff to talk throughout an occasion, to take part in a panel or current a session, a stand or desk to be a stand or desk, brochures and details about well being care, training, employment and different matters about veterans, or to have added a veteran-oriented occasion to the MVAA web site, fill the Occasion Consistence www.michigan.gov/mva/types/event-inventitation. For extra data, go to www.michigan.gov/mvaa/about-us/request-event.

Upcoming occasions

• Oxford American Legion Publish 108 to arrange Euchre from 6 to eight:30 pm Monday 3 March and from 12:00 to fifteen:00 Thursday 6 March and fishdiners from 12:00 to twenty:00 Friday 7 March at 130 Drahner Highway, Oxford. For extra data, name 248-628-9081.

• Royal Oak American Legion Publish 253 to arrange Taco on Tuesday at 11 March and Friday night perch at 5 pm March 7 at 1505 N. Essential St. For extra data, name 248-546-0490.

• Oxford American Legion Publish 108 to host Brosped Hen Buffet from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday 5 March on 130 Drahner Highway, Oxford. For extra data, name 248-628-9081.

• Clarkston American Legion Publish 377 to host Bingo from 6 pm to 9.30 pm Tuesday 4 March and a fish bowl from 5 pm to eight pm Friday 7 March at 4819 Mary Sue Ave. For extra data, name 248-673-9301.

• Milford American Legion Publish 216 to arrange Burger Nite from 5 pm to eight pm Thursday, March 6 at 510 W. Commerce Highway, Milford. For extra data, name 248-684-9919.
• Berkley American Legion Publish 374 to arrange Pancake Platter Feast from 9 a.m. to 12 a.m., Sunday 2 March, and Music Trivia at 7 p.m. Thursday 6 March at 2079 W. Twelve Mile Highway, Berkley. Breakfast prices adults aged $ 10, youthful than 12 years of $ 5. Drinks in the stores. For extra data, name 248-542-7668.

• The Holly Space Veterans Useful resource Middle Dinner is from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm Monday 17 March on VFW Publish 5587, 201 Airport Drive, Holly. Dinner is open to veterans and their households, choice to cross a dish. There may be normally a visitor speaker with the month-to-month dinners, adopted by Q&A. For extra data, name 810-348-9960.

The Oakland Press is desirous about all veteran occasions in Oakland County. Ship data within the physique of an e -mail with topic line “Veterans Affairs” to Sharon Longman on sslstart@aol.com. Rise up for 2 weeks for deliberate occasions and document a phone quantity for readers to name extra data.