Borne the Battle #280: Benefits Breakdown – Million Veteran Program
This week’s Borne the Battle – a benefits breakdown – features the Million Veteran Program (MVP), which is a national, voluntary research program to learn about how genes, lifestyle and military exposures affect health and illness and improve health care for Veterans.
Borne the Battle 275: Benefits Breakdown, Office of Harassment and Assault Prevention
This week’s Borne the Battle–a benefits breakdown—features the Office of Harassment and Assault Prevention. The office’s goal is simple: All those who visit a VA facility should be treated with dignity and respect.
Borne the Battle #270: Benefits Breakdown – Office of Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU)
This week’s Borne the Battle – a benefits breakdown – features the Office of Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU). They are an internal accountability office that protects and advocates for Veteran-owned businesses. They also work to ensure that Veteran entrepreneurs can compete and be selected for a fair amount of contract opportunities.
Borne the Battle #265: Benefits Breakdown, Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF), Support for Veterans Facing Homelessness
This episode of Borne the Battle—a benefits breakdown—features Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF).
Borne the Battle #260: Benefits Breakdown – VA Mobile Mental Health Apps
This episode of Borne the Battle – a benefits breakdown – features VA Mobile Mental Health Apps, which provides free tools and information to support and help Veterans manage PTSD-related symptoms and stress, learn to practice mindfulness, aim to reduce suicide risk and strengthen parenting skills.
Borne the Battle #255: Benefits Breakdown – HUD-VASH: Assistance for Veterans and their Families facing homelessness
This episode of Borne the Battle, a benefits breakdown, features HUD-VASH, a collaborative program between HUD and VA that provides support to help homeless Veterans and their families – and those at risk of becoming homeless – to find and sustain permanent housing.
Borne the Battle Episode #251: Benefits Breakdown – Community Care Program
The VHA Office of Community Care (OCC) aims to place the choice of provider in the hands of eligible Veterans and assist them in finding the best options for their care.
Borne the Battle #243: Benefits Breakdown, Veterans Legacy Memorial
The Veterans Legacy Memorial website at https://www.vlm.cem.va.gov/ memorializes the over 3.7 million Veterans interred in VA national cemeteries.
Borne the Battle #240: Benefits Breakdown: Interest Rate Reduction Refinance Loan (IRRRL)
Home interest rates are at historic lows and VA home loans offer lower rates than any other type of home loan. Navy Veteran John Bell, deputy director of the VA Loan Guaranty Service, joins Borne the Battle to break down VA’s Interest Rate Reduction and Refinance Loan (IRRRL), mortgage refinancing, VA home loans and how they help Veterans stay in their homes.
Borne the Battle #230: Benefits Breakdown, Veteran Readiness & Employment (VR&E)
This week’s Benefits Breakdown episode of Borne the Battle explores the Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E) service with its Executive Director and Navy Veteran William Streitberger.
Borne the Battle #224: Benefits Breakdown, VA Speech Language Pathology Services
On this week’s episode of Borne the Battle, Navy Veteran and stroke survivor Dave Hume shares the journey of how he went from only expressing three words after his stroke to writing his own blog and becoming a motivational speaker.
Borne the Battle #215: Benefits Breakdown, Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program
Dr. LeAnn Bruce, National Program Manager for the Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program (IPVAP), joins this week’s episode of Borne the Battle to share why no one should ever feel ashamed to seek out IPV support and describes what services VA offers to help Veterans in need.