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FOCUS ON VETERANS
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Quarterly Resource- a topic driven newsletter designed to provide our partnering agencies with information, insight and ready to share resources.
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2019 - Volume 5
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You can find all of the information you need regarding
Military Veterans Resource Center
on their informative and easy to navigate website. What you won't be able to 'click onto' is the passion and gratitude that their staff, volunteers and coaches of MVRC serve their customers.
It doesn't take long to realize why they are so passionate and why the Veterans they serve get more than just resources. Part of their magic is Vets helping Vets including m
ore than 90% of their staff and Board of Directors are Veterans themselves.
According to Dixie Bishop, the Veterans Resource Specialist for the Columbus center, no matter who, where or how their customers find their way to one of the four Ohio MVRC centers the key ingredient that bonds them all together is the fact they have served their country. "Sometimes it's just easier to talk to someone who 'knows' what they've been through. It's a bond" says Dixie. An instant bond that sends the unspoken message they have found a safe place. Hopefully, it makes it easier to ask for what they need.
MVRC addresses the complete needs of a Veteran, starting with the most urgent. If it's housing the Agency Resource Specialist is able to provide connections to resources as well as facilitating placement. If a Veteran's barrier is transportation because their car is broken or they simply have no access, MVRC often will provide gas cards, bus passes and other assistance.
It's the hope and help that MVRC gives to veterans to develop self-reliance and independence to successfully manage their lives.
"We start with their biggest need and work through it." says Len Proper the Executive Director and founder. "Once we've helped them through the first barrier let's move onto the next thing. Sometimes that's food, shelter, career service -what have you. We help them."
For more information on the work and resources available for Veterans in central Ohio log onto their website at
https://milvetsrc.org/
They have four different center locations to help meet the needs of their customers where they live.
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- The Columbus, Military Veterans Resource Center serves Veterans in Franklin, Delaware, Union, Fairfield and Licking counties.
- The Columbus MVRC is located at: 4889 Sinclair Rd., Suite 104 Columbus, Ohio 43229
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OHIO STATE STUDENTS AND STAFF PACK
200,000
MEALS FOR VETERANS
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600 Ohio State University students, student-athletes and staff members comprised from The Office of Student Life, Dept. of Athletics and the Alumni Association packed more than 200,000 meals on Tuesday, Oct. 29th. This marks the third year for the event held at OSU and in collaboration with the
Kind Columbus
initiative at the
Columbus Foundation
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The meals, combined with 125,000
non-perishable
meals which were packed by OSU students earlier in the month, have been donated to
Military Veterans Resource Center
(MVRC). The MVRC centers located in Columbus, Chillicothe and Hamilton OH. received approximately 47,000 each, of the OSU packed meal bags.
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Mid-Ohio Foodbank Employees
Donate Time to Help Veterans
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Each year Mid-Ohio Foodbank Staff donate their time to participate in an annual Commemoration Service Project that benefits central Ohio Veterans.
This year MOF employees joined together to pack more than
475 Toiletry Kits
which were then distributed between (4)
M.A.S.H.
Pantry & Resource Centers located in Grove City and Columbus, OH.
Projects like these are important to the mission and community of Mid-Ohio Foodbank. Though simple, these kits will make a difference in the lives of those who receive them. Helping Veterans maintain dignity and health.
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Agencies Serving Veterans
Veterans Crisis Line:
Call 1-800-273-8255 and press 1 Text to 838255 to get help now
- Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services provides responses from crisis counselors within 5 minutes to those who text "4hope" to 741 741. Data usage is free and the number does not appear on your phone bill. This is available for individuals of any age.
National Suicide Prevention Hotline:
800-273-TALK (8255)
press 1 (Text 838255)
National Domestic Violence Hotline:
800-799-SAFE (7233)
Vets for Warriors:
855-838-8255
Veterans Organizations:
- American Ex Prisoners of War Department of Ohio 10070 Larimer Road Logan, OH 43138 740/385-8995
- American Gold Star Mothers Mrs. Rebecca Frank 513/309-1162 blfrank@roadrunner.com
- American Legion Department of Ohio 60 Big Run Road P.O. Box 8007 Delaware, OH 43015 740/362-7478 740/362-1429 (fax) legion@ohiolegion.com
- AMVETS Department of Ohio 1395 E. Dublin Granville Road Suite 222 Columbus, OH 43229 614/431-6990 614/431-6991 (fax) 800/OH-AMVET admin@ohamvets.org
- Army and Navy Union USA, Inc. Department of Ohio 2362 Earl Street Niles, OH 44446 330/652-8746
- Ohio Ch. of the Blue Star Mothers of America, Inc. Contact: Dawn Woodings ohbsmpres@yahoo.com
- Catholic War Veterans Department of Ohio 35 E. Chestnut Street 5th Floor, Suite 510 Columbus, OH 43215 614/221-7601 614/221-0278 (fax) ohiocwv@sbcglobal.net
- Disabled American Veterans Department of Ohio 35 E. Chestnut Street 5th Floor, Suite 503 Columbus, OH 43215 614/221-3582 614/221-4822 (fax) mrstith@aol.com
- Marine Corps League 35 E. Chestnut Street 5th Floor, Suite 504 Columbus, OH 43215 614/464-1775 adjutant@mclohio.org
- Military Officers Association of America Ohio Council of Chapters 483 Hunt Valley Drive Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 614/864-8165 mccoyjc1@aol.com
- Vietnam Veterans of America Buckeye Council 35 E. Chestnut Street 5th Floor, Suite 501 Columbus, OH 43215 614/228-0188 614/228-2711 (fax)
- Women's Army Corps Veterans Association Columbus Chapter President: Carolyn Philips 740/774-1056 sgtmom@horizonview.net
- Chalmers P. Wylie VA Ambulatory Care Center 420 N. James Rd Columbus, OH 43219 614-257-5200 | 888-615-9448
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