USDA Announces $16-million Available to Organizations Serving Veterans
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced up to $16-million in available funding to help Veteran and socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers.
These grants can be used to support Veteran agricultural communities with education, training, demonstrations, and conferences on farming and agribusiness; providing further access to USDA’s programs
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Want to be a Wildland Firefighter? Montana is Training Veterans for Free
The Veterans Green Corps, based in the Central Divide (Helena, Montana) region, is a field-based opportunity for post 9/11 era Armed Forces Veterans and Service Members. This training program is 11 weeks long and gives you all the qualifications you need to be a wildland firefighter. This includes S-212 Chainsaw certs, S-130/190 Red Card/Incident Card required.
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"Thanks to thousands of dedicated VA workers around the country and President Donald J. Trump's support for this historic reform, elements of the MISSION Act took effect on June 6, and Veterans immediately began benefitting from the largest transformation in veterans' health care since the end of World War II." - VA Secretary Robert Wilkie
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 Did you know the National Resource Directory has more than 14,000 vetted resources available to you right now? Featured Resource: PsychArmor Institute's S.A.V.E. course
Suicide takes the lives of an estimated 45,000 Americans–including 6,000 Veterans–each year. The PsychArmor Institute recognizes this issue and, in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs, has developed an online course called S.A.V.E. This course helps people develop a general understanding of the problem of suicide in the United States, understand how to identify a Veteran who may be at risk for suicide, and know what to do if one identifies a Veteran at risk.
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