Community Outreach Program for Minority

¶ … community outreach program for minority veterans in South DeKalb County (Georgia)

The Veterans served people well during the war and that is why many programs have come up to give back to them. The programs vary from those created by the government to other programs formed by the good will of people while others are because of nonprofit or nongovernmental association. The Atlanta Veteran Association is responsible for providing medical and non-medical Veteran benefits to the Veterans in Georgia, and their dependent family members. In addition, these association processes loans, educational benefits, and vocational rehabilitation services for all the Veterans and their families. The running of community outreach programs oversees that all the Veteran's benefits reach them. In addition to that, these programs also offer Veterans with an emotional support system, educate their families, and offer jobs to these civilians. However, some of these programs have succeeded in helping these Veterans.

An action plan for a community outreach program for minority veterans in South DeKalb

A community action plan is a program that helps people in the community with information that fosters their development. The programs encourage engagement in activities that build community, for example, rehabilitation of individual behaviors in the society. It also heightens the community awareness by spreading love to the community members by assisting the poor or disabled and welcoming the contributors and making everyone in the community feel important. The information spreads by use of television commercials, newspapers articles, and a webpage or through launching an event.

Healthcare for homeless veterans is a program that gives healthcare to the minority veterans in Georgia. This program outreaches the veterans on the streets and helps them in providing healthcare service to the poor and disabled. The HONOR center, (hope, opportunities, networking, outreach, and recovery) program provides assistance that includes setting up of permanent housing for the veterans. It also provides the veterans with domiciliary whose main target is to meet the needs of the homeless, the disabled, and those suffering from serious health issues. The residence, which is 45 beds domiciliary, also provides the residences with cooking classes, dental services and a library center. These facilities help in improving their livelihood and keeping their health in check. The veterans are eligible to stay in the residence from three to six months hence giving the sick time to recover and be able to continue with their daily lives (USDVA, 2013).

The permanent housing programs also enable the veterans to put up permanent resident houses and maintain their houses. This plays a significant role in raising their levels of living by lowering the poverty level in both their families and the community. There is also provision of dietitian led services. The healthy eating and lifestyle tips provide these services for heroes. An educational program helps in providing grocery tours and cooking demonstrations. The program also provides group nutrition classes. It also provides safe food safety conditions and certification. This helps the veterans to get the knowhow of eating a balanced diet foods and therefore reducing the chances of anyone suffering from diet related diseases.

The health care for the re-entry veteran program works hand in hand with the department of corrections, and helps in support of the special need of the veterans who are in state or federal prison systems, and therefore helping the veterans relate well with others after leaving the prison. The homeless veteran dental initiative helps in restoring the self-esteem to the veterans as it provide a full course of dental treatment for those veterans who participate in housing programs. There is also provision of vocational assistance, job development, and improvement of employment outcomes. There is the provision of treatment, referrals, and case management services offered to the homeless veterans with mental illnesses, which may be due to drug use. Provision of services such as a better way to manage chronic diseases and clinical care helps in reducing hospitalizations (USDVA, 2013).

According to research from the Department of Veterans Affairs Office, all the programs listed have a common objective that is to help the disabled, poor and the sick manage their lives by providing financial and social support in order to live a better life. Its main goals are to examine and evaluate the main areas requiring improvements. The technology transfer programs are the key information sources, which enables the veteran access the latest technologies that can lead to improvement of their livelihood standards. The veteran association other goal is to ensure automated and web-enabled activities. This will enable the association allow online submission of ids rather than uploads from emails hence reducing the usage of papers.

According to 2000 census, 12% of the U.S. population is African-American. This figure may be even less because there are some homeless and incarcerated who are not inclusive in the census report. The Africa American veterans mostly affected by depression though most of them believe is a personal weakness. They represent among the veterans who served in the homeless programs making about 11.4%of the veteran population. These veterans make up 35.1%of the homeless veteran population and 18.9%of the veterans in poverty. Because of the many difficulties facing the African-American veterans, this calls for more VA healthcare outreach. This will enable them to solve the problems of depression, chronic degausses and the disabled are able to cat the medical attention and by so doing it would improve their standards of living (Perl, 2013).

Hispanic veterans are very hard to reach and therefore it forces the VHA to spend 15% of its broadcast dollars to pay the Spanish-speaking network, and cable channels. This has lead for the VA to collaborate with the HACU in order to reach the profession trained Hispanic students. The VHA has also participated in Hispanic recruitment events, Hispanic higher education community and the NHMA conference to the in a bid to reach the community. The VHA has also heavily funded the medical centers for student education and employment programs for students.

The VA diversity councils continue to outreach the Hispanic community for recruitment. The VA promotes the participation in management, leadership and careers development programs by overseeing a range of workforce programs that lead to the provision of career advancement opportunities to the VA employment. The Hispanic veterans face various problems of homelessness, chronic diseases and thus they need more VA healthcare that would enable them to solve the major problem, which is lack of healthcare programs (Perl, 2013).Managing inventions disclosures is another principal goal that includes developing a process map responsible for the involvement of all parties in the disclosure process. This process helps in the identification of opportunities for improvements. Incorporation educational activities is another goal, which involves educating the investigators of the VA who works to get inventions and those investigators who assists them in disclosing of inventions for expanding of the Technology Transfer Program (TTP) commercial efforts.