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How to Contact your Legislator Information There are currently numerous legislative issues
before Congress affecting Veterans. One website that tracks many
"people related" issues affecting Veterans is the Military
Officers Association of America. Their "Contact your Legislator" page has
several tabs and one of particular interest is the "Issues &
Legislation" page at
http://capwiz.com/moaa/home/
This page has bills that are of interest to Veterans, many of whom
are military retirees. This website also allows you to check out the bills before
Congress affecting Veterans and contact your Senators and Representatives
to tell them how you feel about certain bills.
Check out this website and let your voice be heard. Visit our
"Links" page for links
to organizations that provide services to Veterans. Click on MOAA Web Site and contact your Federal, State and local Legislators with issues that concern you in this election year!
ADDITIONAL FUNDING REQUIRED
BY NVTI
As statistics show, NVTI will need approximately one million
dollars in extra funding to accommodate the recently enacted public law · All NVTI Alumni are asked to contact their legislators to ask for an additional one million dollars for NVTI to meet the requirements of this public law. A sample letter is listed below. · The subcommittee on economic opportunity, under the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, may be found at http://veterans.house.gov/economic/. Liaisons in these states where the subcommittee members reside are specifically asked to contact these representatives. Please forward your email to the NVTI Alumni Office (or bcc the Alumni Office) so the office may know when requests for funding have been completed. NASWA has asked Congress for additional funding for NVTI.
Dear Representative or Senator, The purpose of this correspondence is to urge your support of funding for the National Veterans’ Training Institute (NVTI) in Denver, Colorado to meet the requirements of Public Law 109-461. I am (name), a Disabled Veterans Outreach Program Specialist (DVOP) (or Local Veterans Employment Representative (LVER) (from area, address). My role is to assist all veterans, especially returning service members/veterans in attaining and keeping viable employment. A most important part of my expertise and effectiveness on the job comes from sessions I attend at the NVTI, including Labor Employment Specialist training, Case Management, Veterans Benefits and Promoting Partnership for Employment. All these courses make me more prepared to assist our returning veterans in assessing their needs and addressing their specific employment issues, all aimed toward helping them get a job. The passage of Public Law 109-461 in December 2006 calls for DVOPs and LVERs hired on or after January 1, 2006, to complete the NVTI training required for their job within three years of their appointment. Training completion means Labor Employment Specialist (LES) and Case Management (CM) for DVOPs and LES and Promoting Partnership in Employment (PPE) for LVERs. In order for NVTI to be able to meet these requirements of law, an additional one million in funding per year for three years is needed for training the current DVOPs and LVERs. Please support and champion additional funding for this vital training so we can benefit all veterans seeking employment nationwide, and especially our veterans here in (area). Respectfully,
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
The NVTI Alumni Association is in the process of
updating all of the NVTI graduates' records with e-mail addresses so we
can start sending out Legislative Alerts on information
that affects our graduates. We also would like to send newsletters
and tips on resources that
help our graduates to better serve our Veteran population. To insure that we can get information on Veteran's
issues to you in a timely manner, we need you to keep us updated with your
CORRECT E-MAIL ADDRESS. E-mail
is an efficient and cost effective way to use the resources that we have
available to the Association. If you are using a state or local government
e-mail address, you should consider setting up an account with one of the
"free" e-mail services (such as
Hotmail
) that would allow you to have a "permanent"
e-mail address, regardless of how often your job related e-mail address
changes. It would also cut down on the number of "bounced"
e-mails that we have returned to us. Please call the
NVTI Alumni Association at (303) 556-2549 or e-mail:
julie.mullin@cudenver.edu whenever
you need your e-mail address updated so we can better serve you! Looking forward to hearing from you! MEETINGS NVTI Alumni Association meetings are scheduled
regularly throughout the year. NVTI Alumni Association Board of Directors Meeting Next meeting of the NVTI Alumni Association Board of Directors: NVTI Alumni Association Annual Meeting Thursday August 7, 2008 12:30 p.m. Double
Tree Hotel
Please call the NVTI Alumni Association at (303)
556-2549 or e-mail
julie.mullin@cudenver.edu
for information if you are interested in attending a board meeting.
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