Hays County Veterans Services is a county funded organization. The county is the one providing the resource and the funding. While it is considered public, only veterans and family members with specific qualifying factors acting on behalf of the veteran can utilize the service. “Public social agencies are run by some designated unit of government and are usually regulated by laws impacting policy” (Kirst-Ashman, 2013, p. 132). Because Hays County Veterans Services does not make any profits since its source of funding comes from the county and they do not seek to make a profit (Kirst-Ashman, 2013, p.…
We should help our veterans; we should not turn our back on them even if they are unemployed…
Each veteran could receive a low interest loan to buy a home, a farm or start a business…
Overall, not only the veterans benefit from these programs, the social workers also benefit from this because they enjoy doing their job and because they love to help people and if the VA keeps making improvements in the urge to help veterans, then veterans would be in excellent…
Non-Profit Assistance for the Disabled Veteran is important for two reasons. First, most veterans who return home after military service will not take advantage of their benefits. These benefits could assist them to better their quality of life. Second, veterans are in a position to start non-profit organizations with their Small Business Administration loans from the Veterans Administration. These Non-profit organizations will hopefully help many of our homeless and disabled veterans.…
To start off, veterans need help after the war because these veterans are risking their lives for our government. With this thought in mind the citizens that the soldiers are protecting are going through tons of hardships like divorce, loss of a loved one, etc. As stated from H.W. Brands, the author of “What Do We Owe Our Vets?” For many young veterans “jobs remain scarce, particularly for young male veterans looking for work in blue-collar fields like manufacturing and construction.”…
After being contained in prison camps, once veterans were released they couldn't find any source of support. They had difficult times finding jobs and usually lived on the streets. Since they lost the war, the southerners were angry and treated them badly. They were no hero to the South. Some veterans found it easier to self-exile themselves from the nation, going to countries such as Canada and England. The biggest effect on them had to be the fact that the North won, and not them.…
I have not notice any stigmatization or off targeted benefits. These benefits are here for these homeless veterans if they want them. In my opinion the homeless veterans can get the help that they need faster than…
On any given night between 130,000 and 200,000 veterans sleep out in the streets. Three times that many are struggling with excessive rent burdens and at an increased risk of homelessness. “More than 40,000 homeless veterans receive compensation or pension benefits each month, but that’s not enough to find affordable housing” according to the national coalition for homeless…
Veterans were sent to other countries that they knew nothing about and had to learn so many new things. Since they are usually there for a long period of time, they had to learn the ways of those countries. They have sacrificed months to years at a time without seeing their children or families. Sometimes they did get to go home on leave, after being gone for over…
Over 2 million Veterans are suffering from medical, physical, psychological, emotional, and social effects as the result of war. All of which are taking a tremendous toll on our veterans, their families, and our society. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) spends billions of dollars every year to help our Veterans and yet huge gaps in service and support remain. Inadequate medical care, a huge backlog of VA claims, limited treatment programs, and executive malfeasance plague the VA. These and other deficiencies in the “system” are putting our veterans at further risk. The rate of veteran suicide has reached epidemic proportions! Too many Veteran charities are taking advantage of donors and current laws governing the management and operations…
There is so much we can do to provide homes for these Veterans. We can stop sending money to other countries and we can use that money to take care of them. Why is it that we take care of people in other countries when we should be taking care of the people in our country? Yes I know that we get a whole bunch of stuff from other countries that we use in our everyday lives. But that is called business. We cannot just give money to people that need it in other countries when we need it here. Why would we do that? It is anarchy…. It makes no sense.…
Furthermore, the cause of this homelessness is because veterans have no occupation when they come back. In a passage it states, “Our government’s failure to keep its promises had – and could have once again, real and immediate impacts to our veterans that harm their health and their basic dignity.” This quote hints that without education, veterans will not get a job because most careers require a degree. Thus, governments need to stay coherent and offer scholarships to veterans and their family so their sons and daughters could get a job and veterans themselves. Without proper, education veterans won’t be able to live a successful…
Another government organization known simply as the VA program is suppose to provide jobs and other services like health care to veterans. In a recent assessment of the VA program, it was revealed that the systems in place to help veterans are not receiving sufficient attention. The organization seems unable to handle the imminence amount of cases refereed to them. The VA program's failures also have indirect consequences to those they serve. In a recent study by the "Center for a New American Study" new statistics revealed that we are losing the battle against veteran suicide. Startling results show that every 80 minutes a veteran commit's suicide. In 2011, 20% of all suicides in the United States were that of veterans. Many of those who thought about suicide said it stemmed from feelings of uselessness when they return home, from combat. The primary subject of "Veterans Jobs Corps Act of 2012" was to tackle these feelings of uselessness by giving job opportunities to veterans appropriate to their skills. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that presently the unemployment rate for veterans who served in Iraq…
There are numerous social problems that plague our world today. These issues can be very detrimental to our society as a whole and can also have very negative impacts on many lives. One major social problem we are facing today is the way we are dealing with and handling our United States Veterans. Despite the fact that we are one of the world’s most powerful nations we are failing to properly take care of our service members who put their lives on the line to ensure our safety and freedom as United States citizens. The issues facing our veterans are substantial and numerous. I will be focusing on the majority of the most outstanding and significant issues facing our veterans…