Community Outreach to Veterans

The Center for Veterans Issues, Ltd. supports the concerns of all veterans. CVI provides information, resources, leadership training, technical assistance, organizational development and volunteer services coordination to Veteran Service Organizations. CVI also provides identification of funding and grant opporunities, along with staffing and housing support. CVI promotes veterans' issues through program service design, planning and implementation.

The Desert Veterans of Wisconsin is a Veteran based Non Profit organization in Northeast Wisconsin focused on improving the lives of all area Veterans through financial support, scholarships, and peer to peer interaction at our monthly meetings.

No additional information available at this time.

NABVETS will provide personal advocacy on behalf of veterans seeking claims against the United States Department of Veterans Affairs; advocacy for youth in all matters required for successful passage into adulthood; advocacy on behalf of families; with community involvement, provide advocacy in creating positive lifestyles for veterans; and to generate and preserve the historical record.

Student Veterans of America (SVA) is a coalition of student veterans groups from college campuses across the United States. Welcome to the Veterans Club of UWRF. Our primary purposes are to support and honor the United States military services, perpetuate the honor and memory of its dead and provide a social outlet for the members and their companions. The club will also provide an avenue to disperse information to it’s members and serve as an advocacy for Veterans on campus.

The United Proud Patriots veterans organization is proposing a Freedom Park National Education Facility, where we can promote patriotism, education, and recreation with our programs. Our goal is not to glorify war but rather remember the price of freedom. The Freedom Park National Education Facility will allow us to provide educational materials on patriotism to our youth, and to provide a fitting memorial to those who sacrificed their lives for our country.

No additional information available at this time.

Veterans For Peace, Inc. (VFP) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational and humanitarian organization dedicated to the abolishment of war. To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use non-violent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace.

Veterans Industries is a federal rehabilitation program designed to reintegrate veterans into employment and to provide an avenue for employers to solve their employment needs. To achieve this goal, we develop partnerships with employers who require high quality workers. We are not a temporary agency. We aim to achieve fulfillment of transitional long term employment. The veterans participating in this program are placed into our program voluntarily.

Vet Centers provide readjustment counseling and outreach services to all veterans who served in any combat zone. Services are also available for their family members for military related issues. Veterans have earned these benefits through their service and all are provided at no cost to the veteran or family. The Department of Veterans Affairs Vet Center program operates a system of 232 community based counseling centers. The Vet Centers are staffed by small multi-disciplinary teams of dedicated providers, many of which are combat veterans themselves.

No additional information available at this time.

The Wisconsin Paralyzed Veterans of America (WPVA) will improve the quality of life of United States military veterans and others who have spinal cord dysfunction through the use of education, communication, advocacy, legislation, research, and sports & recreation. The Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA), a congressionally chartered veterans service organization founded in 1946, has developed a unique expertise on a wide variety of issues involving the special needs of our members - veterans of the armed forces who have experienced spinal cord injury or dysfunction.

The Department of Labor fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements.

The Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center is located on 125 acres on the western edge of Milwaukee. The Medical Center delivers primary, secondary, and tertiary medical care in 166 acute operating beds and provides 467,900 visits annually through an extensive outpatient program. The nursing home care unit of 113 beds offers geriatric programming and the 356 domiciliary beds are the focus of programs in Substance Abuse Rehabilitation, Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder care.