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Announcements for the Women Veterans Community

The Sacramento Veterans Resource Center
is proud to announce expanded services for women veterans

The Center has purchased a large duplex that will provide transitional housing for eight women veterans. This fulfills a long-standing dream of providing equity in services to our military women.

This new facility is part of the continuum of care model that assists in providing a supportive environment.

Features of the program include:

  • Clean and sober housing
  • Case management services
  • Vocational rehabilitation
  • Career development
  • Training programs
  • Employment search assistance
  • Life skills classes
  • Access to drug and alcohol treatment
  • Community support groups and meetings
  • Links to community service providers
  • Organized recreational activities

A transition program for employable clients

How do I qualify?

In order to be eligible, you must be:

  • Discharged (all except dishonorable) from active duty
  • A single female
  • Homeless
  • Employable

Please direct inquiries to:
Housing Specialist, (916) 393-8387, e-mail: vvcsac@aol.com The Sacramento Veterans Resources Center is a division of Vietnam Veterans of California, Inc., a nonprofit corporation.

Seeking Artifacts and Memorabilia from Women Veterans

For the last few years the Department of Veterans Affairs, Los Angeles Regional Office has been building a world class veterans museum.

We have put together the history of each war, the history of each benefit, artifacts from each war (e.g., strands of hair from Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, captured flags from Germany, Japan, North Korea, North Vietnam and Iraq, dirt from Normandy and Iwo Jima, etc.), a large centerpiece from each war (a Civil War canon, a model of a WW I submarine, a vintage WW II jeep, a U-2 cockpit, a Huey helicopter and a scale model of an Abrams M-1 tank), a bunker, holographs of veterans telling their stories, a POW cell (all of which contain sound), and much, much more.

We are in the process of putting together a display featuring the role of women in the military. So far the display includes a field hospital showing a female nurse taking care of an injured soldier. We have acquired some display cases. We are seeking artifacts and memorabilia from women veterans to populate these display cases.

If you have an item or two that we could display please contact Josephine Thompson, Department of Veterans Affairs, at 310 235-6048. Or send an email to ADJJTHOM344@vba.va.gov.

ATTENTION WOMEN

The United States Veterans Initiative is here to help you ADVANCE:

Advancement
Direct job referrals
Vocational assistance
Achievement
Needs assessment
Competence
Empowerment

The ADVANCE Women's Program at the Villages at Cabrillo provides housing and employment services to veteran and non-veteran women who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Supportive Services Include:

  • Vocational Assistance
  • Individual Case Management
  • Self-help Groups
  • Sober Environment
  • 3 Meals a Day

Requirements:

  • Homeless Documentation
  • TB Test (within the last 6 months)
  • California State Identification Card
  • Social Security Card
  • Proof of Service or DD214 (for veterans)
  • Minimum 60 days clean and sober if referred from a substance abuse treatment program, or 90 days if self-referred.

For further information:

ADVANCE Women's Program
Outreach Coordinator
(562) 388-8126
(310) 261-9872

ADVANCE Women's Program
Program Assistant
(562) 388-8120

ADVANCE Women's Program
Resident Assistant Office
(562) 388-8119

U.S. Vets Villages at Cabrillo web page

WOMENS HEALTH CLINIC - VA MATHER/MCCLELLAN

Mission: To partner with the Veteran's Administration professional staff in providing quality women's health care for veteran and TRICARE patients.

Scope of Care: Comprehensive gynecology services to include annual exams; infertility services; evaluation and treatment of urogynecolgy problems; hormone replacement therapy; contraception; evaluation and treatment of sexual dysfunction; evaluation and management of chronic pelvic pain; management and treatment of dysfunctional uterine bleeding; follow-up evaluation of breast lesions; evaluation and treatment of pelvic masses; management and treatment of abnormal Pap smears and dysplasia; evaluation and treatment of first trimester pregnancies to include missed abortions, incomplete abortions and ectopic pregnancies. Formal and informal consultations with primary care providers regarding management and treatment of gynecology problems.

Appointments

  • Mather: (916) 366-5477 or (916) 366-5476
  • McClellan: (916) 561-7485

Military Women in Need
(Formerly California Soldiers Widows Home Association)

Military Women in Need, formerly California Soldiers Widows Home Association, is an organization dedicated to preventing homelessness and encouraging independence among female veterans and the widows of veterans. Our programs include:

  • In-home visits
  • Housing subsidies
  • Access to food (through local food banks and pantries)
  • In-kind gifts, including computers
  • Resource and referrals
  • Advocacy

PLEASE CALL MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY -- (310) 967-3956

Military Women in Need
http://www.militarywomeninneed.org/