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18, 2010
0700
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Meeting
Date
September
7, 2010
3:00
pm at the National Guard Armory
Wisconsin
Veterans Stand Down, Inc.
Meeting
Agenda
Tuesday, September 7,
2010 at 3:00 pm at the National Guard Armory
Treasurer’s Report: (Renee Krueger) – Donation has come in.
Insurance: Through CVI – Should be good to go. Have dates for next event.
Security/Amnesty:
Security – Sheriff’s Dept. hopefully will have someone there
Marquette
Army ROTC will provide help with setup, take down and security
Amnesty – Mike Malloy coordinates
Barbers:
MATC - Annie Royal has retired but we should have barbers present –
Need
to know who the new contact is for this - do not have a name and
I did not make a contact.
Dental: Dr. Santilli will do dental exams with Guadalupe and MATC as providers.
Will have copies of vouchers at meeting.
Optical: VAMC will do screening for glasses vouchered via Quality Optical and reading glasses.
ID Cards: Debbie/Mike Sohns handle ID cards
Transportation:
Hopefully DAV will have vans and drivers along with VPC who provides other
vans and shot gun riders.
These
are out many of our vets make it to Stand Down and transportation cooperation
is very important.
Job Service: Stan Kogutkiewicz coordinates.
Food Service:
VFW (Fiddler Post) provides excellent breakfast (via vouchers for clients).
The American
Legion Post 448 with Prime Minister provides lunch.
Steaks
will be available for this event so need to plan on the cooking and everything
to do that.
Will
do vouchers for lunch so we make sure everyone gets 1 meal before any others
are given out. AL Grant ???
Bag lunches will be provided by Miller Coors.
The light
cold breakfast for volunteers in the side room worked out well.
Many
volunteers mentioned they also appreciated the lighter lunches available.
Will probably continue – at least the breakfast.
Toiletries:
Kits were made up at the event. We have enough for the Sept. event
but need to continue collecting because we never know what will come in.
Received
items from Eagle Scout with his collection – an inventory is provided.
Intake:
Double line intake process works well. Jan Jacobs coordinated.
We had
a table set up at the end to distribute the bag lunches, towels and water
near the intake area and that seemed to work well.
We will
close off the steep stairs to the dining room and set up another table
for the bag lunches, towels and water and for the
clients
to hand in folders and get these items – seems that the vets are not handing
in folders or getting what we have for them.
Legal
Assistance: Jesse Torres coordinates. Judges Chavez should present
along with Justice 2000.
We will
change part of the access and location to the legal portion of Stand Down
depending on who is coming.
Set-Up/Tear
Down: Bob Hawkins with the help of Army ROTC sets up the armory Friday
in the am and they also did the tear-down of Armory, Saturday.
Will
also have some help from GE Medical Systems (also collecting items)
Some
of our white tables (property of Stand Down) disappeared and we need to
find out where they are.
We were
short for the event and we will have the same issue at future events.
We have gotten a stencil so we can get our information on our tables.
Need
to have spray paint at the event and someone can work to get the wording
stenciled on.
We will have a little more floor space – VVA is not going to have tables .
Hopefully, there will be enough tables for the event and that our missing tables will be found. We normally use every last table available.
Volunteers:
Bob & Kathy Hawkins coordinate. We need to make sure everyone
signs in. We have a name to receive our award.
We do
get calls from past volunteers that have offered to help. We did
send some people home that wanted to volunteers but we
had absolutely
no place for them to help.
ALL VOLUNTEERS
MUST BE IDENTIFIED IN ADVANCE.
We
also need to make sure security checks everyone – either they are a client
or a volunteer and need to be identified as such –
there
were people walking around without any registration identified. We
have lanyards for volunteers and need the name badges for clients (or wrist
bands).
Has the plaque been ordered for the Founder’s Award?
Clothing:
Voucher system for clothing (via Job Service) works well.
VPC runs
clothing room. Lands’ End provides quality clothing and need to verify
that we will get clothing this event..
Service
Providers: The Medical College will be set up next to the VA.
We need
to make sure we always direct non VA eligible veterans or their family
over to the Medical College.
Sheets
with guidelines were on the tables and mentioned there are liability issues
when they bring their children (we are not insured for those under 18).
No client
or volunteers should have their children present.
There should be some returning/new vendors present.
Medical: (Charles Wallace) – Medical on drill floor.
WDVA: Works with Milwaukee CVS Office assistant vets with claims and paperwork for benefits.
Next Stand
Down: Coming up soon - September 18, 2010. We can see about setting
about 2011 if possible, esp. the February event.
Next
meeting: October 5, 2010. ???
Web Site: http://www.war-veterans.org/Stddwn.htm
Pictures from event on: http://www.veteransmediaservices.50webs.com/
Minutes
September
7, 2010
The Fall Veterans Stand Down is September 18, 2010
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THANK YOU
Thank you to everyone
that helped make this Stand Down a success.
We are especially grateful
to those that stayed late to help with cleanup and those that helped with
set up and transportation.
We won’t have the official
totals for a bit but we did see approximately 190 veterans go through and
receive our services.
This is our second
largest amount of veterans. We ran out of a few things and got very
low on others but we made everything stretch.
2010 Spring Stand Down

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Veterans
Helping Veterans
Media
Release For more information
contact:
Film
Opportunity 10 to 11 am
Greg Jacobs: (414) 902-5729
Meeting
the Needs of Newly Returning
Iraq
and Other Veterans
Stand Down for Homeless
Veterans
Saturday September
18, 2010 7 am – 3 pm
Richard’s Street Armory
4108 N. Richards
As in
previous wars, newly returning Iraq veterans have served well in under
the most dangerous situations leaving them
with
battle related issues beyond physical injury and disability such as Post
Traumatic Stress and other psychological disorders.
Their
service may have fostered other issues such as self-medication, alcohol
and drugs, relationship and family problems.
Returning
home, possibly facing unemployment, especially with non-transferable job
skills, and these other barriers -
that
veteran may be living homeless in Milwaukee.
Stand
Down is a military term for soldiers resting from battle, Saturday homeless
veterans will be brought from the streets of Milwaukee
County
to begin recuperation through a wide variety of services provided by the
Wisconsin Stand Down Committee: emergency housing,
medical,
dental, optical, psycho-social, post traumatic stress, legal, employment
and training, alcohol and drug treatment, clothing, toiletries,
barbering,
federal, state, county and community based veteran specific services, great
breakfast served by the Veterans of Foreign Wars
who are
being honored for their many years of service to homeless veterans, and
a hot and nutritious lunch provided by the American Legion & Auxiliary
Stand
Down’s theme is “Veterans Helping Veterans.” Volunteers from these organizations
will
be helping provide a “Hand Up-Not A Hand Out”:
WI UAW
Veterans, Amer. Legion & Auxiliary, Alcoholics Anonymous, AMVETS &
Auxiliary, Amer. Liver Foundation, Center for
Veterans
Issues, Veterans of Foreign Wars & Auxiliary, Disabled Amer. Veterans
& Auxiliary, US Army Reserve, WI National Guard,
Milw.
Area Technical College, UWM-Vets Upward Bound, Catholic War Veterans, Milw.
Health Department, Milw. Municipal Court,
Milw.
NCO Council, Milw. Vet Center, Vets Place Central, Nat. Assoc. for Black
Veterans, Social Security, VA Domiciliary,
VA Medical
Center, VA Regional Office, WI Indian Veterans Assoc.-Oneida Chapter, Vietnam
Veterans Motorcycle Club,
Vietnam
Veterans of America, WI Dept. of Veterans Affairs, WI Job Service, Milw.
County Veterans Service Office,
WI Vietnam
Veterans Inc., Military Order of the Purple Heart, Jewish War Veterans,
Milw. County War Memorial Board,
Lands
End, Internal Revenue Service, Marine Corp League of Wisconsin, the Ride
to the
Wall
Foundation, Paul Revere & the Raiders and Citizen Volunteers.
DO YOU
KNOW A HOMELESS OR "AT RISK" VETERAN?
WISCONSIN VETERANS
Stand Down Rally
Wisconsin National
Guard Armory
Where? 4108 North Richards Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
53211
Saturday September
18, 2010
7:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.
Veterans Helping Veterans
A Hand Up - Not A Hand
Out
-Federal and State Veterans
Information-
-Drug and Alcohol Treatment
Information-
-Employment Information-
Together Then - Together Now
For more information
contact:
WI Stand Down Voice
Mail (Greg Jacobs): 902-5729
Milwaukee County Veterans
Service Office: 382-1727
Vet's Place Central:
342-5000
Wisconsin Dept. of
Veteran Affairs (Fernando Rodriguez): 382-1756
Veterans Job Service
Representatives:
Milwaukee Northside:
(Stan Kogutkiewicz) 267-3233
Milwaukee Southside:
(Greg Williams) 389-6293
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Veterans Pick-up Points
Milwaukee Public Library-
10th & Wisconsin Avenue
-South11th/Mitchell-South16th/National
-Teutonia &
Capitol- Burleigh & 27th Street- Atkinson & Capitol- North Ave
& FonDuLac-
North Ave & Martin
Luther King Dr-
Silver Spring &
Green Bay Rd- Burleigh & 24th Street(Moody Park)
Pick-up Only from 7:00
A.M. - 11:00 A.M.
“Veterans
Helping Veterans.”
Volunteers
from these organizations will be
helping
provide a “Hand Up-Not A Hand Out”:
WI UAW
Veterans, Amer. Legion & Auxiliary, Alcoholics Anonymous, AMVETS &
Auxiliary, Amer. Liver Foundation,
Center
for Veterans Issues, Veterans of Foreign Wars & Auxiliary, Disabled
Amer. Veterans & Auxiliary, US Army
Reserve,
WI National Guard, Milw. Area Technical College, UWM-Vets Upward Bound,
Catholic War Veterans, Milw.
Health
Department, Milw. Municipal Court,Milw. NCO Council, Milw. Vet Center,
Vets Place Central, Nat. Assoc. for
Black
Veterans, Social Security, VA Domiciliary, VA Medical Center, VA Regional
Office, WI Indian Veterans Assoc.-
Oneida
Chapter, Vietnam Veterans Motorcycle Club, Vietnam Veterans of America,
WI Dept. of Veterans Affairs, WI Job
Service,
Milw. County Veterans Service Office, WI Vietnam Veterans Inc., Military
Order of the Purple Heart, Jewish
War Veterans,
Milw. County War Memorial Board, Lands End, Internal Revenue Service, Marine
Corp League of
Wisconsin,
the Ride to the Wall Foundation, Paul Revere & the Raiders and Citizen
Volunteers.
Wisconsin Veterans Stand Down, Inc.
STAND
DOWN WISH LIST
All must be new items
Monetary Donations
Personal
Care Item (regular size)
Shampoo
Deodorant
Soap
Shave
Cream
Shave
Powder
Toothpaste
Small
Kleenex packages
Disposable
Razors
Combs
Toothbrushes
Wash
Clothes
Please remember, the majority of veterans we see are of the male gender
Undergarments
(male)
(Sizes
needed Medium to 4X)
T shirts
Briefs
Socks
(regular and big men’s size)
Cold Weather
Gear
Hats
Gloves
Scarves
(Can
be hand made or store bought)
Milwaukee
Stand Down
Official
Web Site:
http://www.war-veterans.org/Stddwn.htm
Wisconsin Veterans Stand
Down, Inc.
Post Office Box 170307
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53217-8026
Dear Comrades and Friends;
It's that time again, as you can see by the flyer enclosed it is once again
time for our semi-annual
"Stand Down" here in Milwaukee.
I promised that I would notify you of the event-- consider yourself notified.
We have experienced many successful recoveries from the plight of homelessness
as a result of services
obtained at "Stand Down"
such as legal services provided by the volunteer lawyers of the Justice
Department,
or the Municipal Court
Judge who donates his time and services in the form of granting amnesty
to individuals
with issues like traffic
and civil violations allowing these veterans to return to society.
It was reported that do
to the services provided
by an IRS agent this past February as much as $40,000 was saved and refunded
to
veterans that would have
not known they had money coming. Combined with other services offered
through
"Stand Down" these veterans
re-establish themselves in the work force and once again provide for themselves
and their families in
much the same manner as you and I often take for granted.
Thank you in advance for your interest and involvement in this program
of service to our less-fortunate
comrades in their time
of need. Wisconsin Stand Down, Inc. is a non-profit organization
registered in the state
with no paid staff.
All the staff and service providers at 'Stand Down" are volunteers so any
and all tax-deductible
contributions go directly
to the veteran in need, and when combined with the services and supplies
that are donated
provide maximum service
at minimum costs. If you can provide a service that would be needed
at "Stand Down"
and would like to participate
as a volunteer, or would like to attend the "Stand Down" as an "observer"
let us know.
If you are unable to attend
but would like to financially contribute to this cause your donations will
be greatly
appreciated and put to
good use to purchase some of the items we do not get donated such as eyeglasses,
dental work, toiletry
articles and bus tickets etc.
Thank you again for showing that you indeed do:
"Care Enough to Make a Difference!"
Sincerely yours in appreciation;
Greg Jacobs, President
Wisconsin Veterans Stand Down, Inc.
Weekday phone: (414) 902-5729
Evenings/Weekends: (414) 527-1271
Fax: (414)
902-5403
Wisconsin
Veterans Stand Down, Inc.
Post
Office box 170307
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin 53217-0307
What is a “Stand Down”?
Many of our friends and comrades have been asking
this question in the Milwaukee area in recent years
so we
will try to shed some light on the most recent application of the term.
During a “Stand Down” soldiers are removed from the field of combat for
rest and recreation. Homeless and at-risk
veterans
in this country are not unlike soldiers in combat, living in the field
(streets), surviving by their wits with limited
rations
and enduring very unfavorable living conditions. Every day they must
continue to do battle. Their adversaries
are lack
of housing, unemployment, physical and emotional hardships and hopelessness.
Today’s version of a “Stand Down” is designed and intended to bring a wide
array of pre-existing specialized resources
together
at one location and to provide a comprehensive therapeutic program to homeless
and at-risk veterans that integrates
employment,
housing, medical, legal and a broad range of social services.
Studies have concluded that veterans appear to be at-risk of homelessness
for much the same reasons as other Americans.
Socioeconomic
structural factors have largely been responsible for the increased numbers
of homeless people.
Personal
vulnerabilities such as poverty and mental illness have influenced the
type of individual that becomes at risk
of homelessness.
These studies also estimate that as many as 40% of the homeless men in
America are combat trained veterans.
The current “Stand Down” concept has six basic goals:
1.
To provide a “hand-up”, not a “hand-out” for immediate relief from the
trauma and stress of homelessness.
2.
To provide access to services and assistance in the area of employment,
clothing, matters of hygiene, medical/dental exams etc.
3.
To provide access to longer term solutions like Department of Veteran Affairs
benefits, employment
opportunities,
medical /legal assistance and other social services.
4.
To build and maintain strong long-term interagency and community working
relationships.
5.
To continue to raise community and state awareness of the plight of the
homeless and at-risk veterans to develop long term solutions.
6.
To encourage and aid in the replication of this program in our community
and other cities across the state.
Now that you have a better idea of the current application of the term
“Stand Down” we are hoping that you
will
join us in educating the public and help lessen, if not eliminate the plague
that
is infecting veterans and their families in our community.
Wisconsin
Veterans Stand Down Inc.
Post
Office box 170307
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin 53217-0307
Dear Friends
and Comrades:
On behalf of the Wisconsin Veterans Stand Down committee we are seeking
your financial support for the
funding
of our on-going services to homeless and at risk veterans in our area.
At our two Stand Down’s held in 2008
we helped
to provide aid and comfort to over 300 veterans in the Milwaukee area.
This was just a small segment of
the homeless
veteran population in our city; there is a much larger population of veterans
that are at risk of becoming
homeless
if something is not done now. Our last “Stand Down” was held on September
20, 2008 at the Richards Street
National
Guard Armory 4108 North Richards Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At
this Stand Down we served over 120
needy
veterans and their families, providing various services including providing
eyeglasses and dental services for
homeless
or at-risk veterans. In addition to the aforementioned services we
fed over 300 participants and volunteers
through
the generous donations given to our program by concerned individuals and
organizations like you throughout the state.
We are currently in the planning stage for our next Stand Down to be held
February 28, 2009 once again at the
Richards
Street National Guard Armory in Milwaukee. We are still in need of
financial assistance so that we can provide
hot and
nutritious meals, toilet articles, eye exams, glasses, much needed dental
work, work boots and other items such
as bus
passes to get to job interviews etc. It is our hope that you, your
organizations, members and friends
will
be able to help us in this important endeavor.
We are deeply grateful for whatever assistance you can provide. If
you have any questions
please
feel free to call me for further details.
Sincerely
Yours in Comradeship;
Greg Jacobs,
President
Weekday
phone: (414) 902-5729
Evenings/Weekends:
(414) 902-5403
E-MAIL
Address:
jacobg@dwd.state.wi.us
(or) gjacobs3@wi.rr.com
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