HomeMy WebLinkAboutInvitation to Chico Veterans Resource Center Menchaca, Clarissa
From: Audrea Badial <ABadial@vetsresource.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 1:53 PM
To: Clerk of the Board
Subject: Informal Introduction
Attachments: Tri-fold CVRC brochure.pdf, CVRC poster.pdf, CVRC Newsletter Jan-March 2018.pdf
Good morning,
I am the Outreach Specialist for the Veterans Resource Center located in Chico.We serve the homeless Veterans and
Veterans at risk of becoming homeless in Colusa, Glenn, Sutter,Yuba,Sierra, Nevada and Butte Counties. We have two
programs we offer through our grant from the Veterans Administration—Rapid Re-housing program and homeless
prevention program. Aside from the two programs through our grant we offer a food pantry,assist with utility
assistance, holiday assistance and household items a Veteran family may need once they find a home. We now share
our office with an Employment Development Department Disabled Veterans Outreach Program Representative who
assists Veterans in searching, applying for and obtaining employment. We also share office space with an AMVets
Veterans Service Officer who assists us in expediting the processes in assisting Veterans should the county VSO be
unavailable or not have an appointment available for several weeks.The AmVets VSO assists Veterans in applying for
benefits, issues with the paperwork process, applying or education opportunities or burial arrangements.
I as the Outreach Specialist am putting for some diligent efforts to connect with community entities that may come
across the population we serve to collaborate on improving the overall health of our local Veterans and the communities
we serve.
We would love to invite you all to visit our office if you should be in the area, meet our staff,tour the expansion, learn
about our Veterans Village Housing project that is in the works and learn more about how we are here to help the
Veterans in Butte County!
Thank you so very much,
Have a great day!
Audrea L. Badial
Outreach Specialist
Chico Veterans Resource Center
110 Amber Grove Drive, Ste 110
Chico, CA 95973
(530) 631-9002 Cell
(530) 392-4605 Office Phone
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Serving Veterans Since 1972
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Did you serve in the military?
Are you homeless?
Are you in danger of bein homeless?
Then what are you waiting for!
Call the Veterans Resource Center and let us help you.
All your information is confidential and remains with us.
( 530) 809m2831
110 Amber Grove Drive, Suite 110
Chico, CA 95973
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Happy Valentines Day Veterans?
Join Chico SUBWAY as they dedicate two days to fundraise for CVRC!
February 17th & 18th, 2018 9:00 am to 6:00pm Subway off of Skyway at 2485
Norte Dame Blvd # 380, Chico CA. 20% of their proceeds will be donated to
CVRC.
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Where is this money goiL7g?
Funds raised from these charity events are used to assist homeless veterans that s:
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veteran receives stable, secure, and safe housing!
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CVRC is a non-profit organization that serves homeless Veterans and Veterans who are at risk of becoming homeless.
Our employees are dedicated to serving Veterans in seven surrounding counties that include:
Butte,Glenn, Colusa,Yuba, Sutter, Sierra and Nevada. f
As of December 2017, we have expanded from our original one suite office to three suites. We now have six CVRC
staff members, have extended office space to an Employment Development Department DVOP (Disabled Veteran
Outreach Program) employee and the Team AmVets VSO (Veterans Service Officer). We also have a fully staffed 3
(volunteer based)receptionist desk with six volunteers,as well as many work studies. 4
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Program Support Specialist:
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3 Case Managers:
Heather Dennison - Oroville and Chico, all Section S, HUD-MASH
Craig May, USN - Yuba/Sutter, Sierra/Nevada Counties
Jennifer Zellers - Butte, Glenn/Colusa Counties
Outreach Specialist:
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Mike Smalls, USMC (530) 999-2205 `
Team Am Vets —VSO
James Wolske, USA (530) 537-3385 `
Community Relations: We recently had the pleasure of joining Mr. Scott Michaels on KPAY Morning News,
Jerry Olenyn on KKXX Radio and Dr. Stephen "Tank" Konstenius on KKXX Veterans Talk Radio show. With our
appearance on the Veterans Talk Radio Show we have been offered our own show the 2nd Tuesday of every month, 5
starting February 13th.Mark your calendars and be sure to tune for current events and more information about CVRC!
Services available in all counties:
• SSVF case management, is still going strong and we have successfully housed 35 veterans and their families since
Oct. 1 st 2017. We are on PAR to house 120 veterans and their families by Sept. 2018.
• Team AmVets (VSO)Veterans Service Officer,
• EDD(DVOP)Disabled Veterans Outreach Program,
• HUD—VASH
Butte County:
Upcoming news! Chico Veterans Village, the Chico office is moving forward on a 52 unit housing project. This facility
will be for low income veterans families.This facility will be open spring/summer 2020.
Our Case Manager, Heather Dennison, is available every Tuesday at the Hope Center (10am to noon) on 1950 Kitrick
Ave Oroville, CA. CVRC works with local law enforcement and the Behavioral Health's Outreach team to help identify
homeless veterans in our community. We have also reached out to numerous hospital's and clinics in the Butte County
area to inform client representatives and social workers of our services in hopes of identifying veterans at rick. Our
agency also attends Butte County Continuum of Care, Coordinated Entry meetings, the Greater Chico Homeless Task
Force and the TBRA meetings. We have reestablished working with the VSO office.
Glenn/Colusa Counties:
Our Case Manager Jennifer Zellers will be available in Glenn County on Tuesday 10:00am to 3:00pm at 640 E Walker
Street, Orland and Thursdays at 240 N. Villa Street, Willows by appointment only. We work with Behavioral Health,
Mental Health, Public Health, Eligibility, Adult Services, VSO office and Employment and Development through the
Glenn County. Our case manager attends the CoC meetings. Jennifer will be making the rounds to the various
departments to visit and exchange information with Ms. Grinnell, Deputy Director of Public Health. We will also be
working with the Employment Training Development lead Linda Johnson to identify veterans that can utilize their
services. Glenn county has funds available for training in the Health care, Protective services, Installation and maintains,
and Production,Transpiration departments,for eligible veterans.
Yuba/Sutter Counties:
Craig May is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00am to 3:00 pm at the Marysville Stand Down Store at 604
D Street,Maryville. We work with the VSO Marvin King, and Mark Schultsmeyer,Program Manager of Adult Services
with Sutter-Yuba Mental Health Services, Sutter County Probation, CDCR, Harmony Health, John Floe, the Program
Manager of Community Services, Yuba City Chief of Police Robert D. Landon,and Yuba City Mayor Preet Didbal.
Sierra/Nevada Counties:
Our agency can be contacted through the Nevada County Veterans Services Office at 988 McCourtney Road, Grass
Valley (530)273-3396. We work with the VSO, Kevin Edwards, as well as Bob Brown and Sean Metroka. We have also
made connections with the Salvation Army, Tom Kellar, whose organization has their own low income housing, which
is open to local Veterans. The Salvation Army organization has the local connections for low income housing
opportunities.
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On Veterans Day, November 11 th 2017, the RedRoom Tattoo shop in
Chico held the most phenomenal fundraiser we have ever had done.
From 11 :00am to 7:00pm the RedRoom did a tattoo flash event on our
behalf with amazing American traditional flash designs. The owners,
Dillon and Krista could not have been better hosts as well as the shop
manager, Chelsea. A huge thank you to all of the on site artists who
I were professional, meticulous and did an outstanding job resulting in a
huge success! Food was provided by Tacos Borregos.
Thank you to everyone who came out and got a tattoo! We could not
have achieved such a feat without you.
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Giving Tree-Adopt a Veteran-- Holiday Food Boxes: Appreciation highlights:
This was the first year of CVRC's Christmas Giving Tree! Thanksgiving and
We were overwhelmed by the response of people in our Christmas Chico Drifters Car Club
local communities who were willing to step up and adopt a For three consecutive years, We would like to thank
Veteran family. We had 15 Veteran families that were through monetary donations you for your continuous
placed on our Giving Tree this year and through social received and/or the donation support. They have
media, community support in promoting and sharing the of Walmart gift cards, we generously donated to the a
need, every family was adopted! The generosity and have been able to provide CVRC office for the last
willingness to make a difference during the holiday season either a Thanksgiving or three ears. We send out a
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was a great reminder of the kindness that still exists! We Christmas dinner to a huge thank you from all of
had individuals, couples, groups and agency departments all Veteran family in need. We us.
eager and overjoyed for the opportunity to provide a purchase all the supplies
Christmas to our Veteran families. We are truly thankful for from Walmart in Chico, in American Legion/VFW
everyone who participated which Stacy, department Thank you for the donation
in this years "Giving Tree" manager at Walmart had towards our holiday
event and the generosity rF,. ,_.. everything gathered and community projects this
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Veteran families were so every year. We are truly
appreciative and truly thankful for all of Stacy's Lundberg Family Farms
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kindness displayed. WEy = assistance with the Holiday gift boxes for our raffle.
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with the local communities k;= s forward to working with her Round Table Pizza
in serving our Veterans again this year. Thank you Mike, thank you for all of
E during the holiday season so much Stacy! the gift certificates for the
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through the "Giving Tree" raffles.
event!
Toys for Tots-
For the third consecutive year CVRC participated in the
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We were very grateful for all the support we received from fortunate children. The primary goal of Toys for Tots is f
Chelsea, the manager and Ed, the owner of the Studio Inn
to deliver a message of hope to less fortunate youngsters
and Lounge. They hosted a "Fill the Boot with Loot" event that will assist them m becoming responsible,productive,
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to benefit the VRC on Veterans Day. They supported us with delivering a toy for
a generous donation, raffle prizes, hosting the event and the
Christmas. With
very welcoming hospitality provided. It was a great evening Sargent Santa's help ".
with live music by the local band "Over Drive". We raised watching over the
funds thou h our "Fill the Boot with Loot" fundraiser and �,�
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selling raffle tickets for °Y
prizes. At the end of the of donating 100 gifts
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Farms for your support and generous offer to staff at Little Chico Creek - Thank you for
s accommodate CVRC on a short notice. We look forward to accommodating us an such a short notice! We truly t
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Chic® Veterans Resource Center
1 10 Amber Grove Dr. Suite 110 Chico, CA 95973
Phone 530-809-2831 FAX 530-809-2834
THANK YOU DONORS!
We encourage you to make donations to Chico Veterans Resources Center to help local veterans and _
their families in our beautiful area.Donations made directly,as well as advertising sponsorship,are a
credited to your organization.
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How to make a donation:
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The donation process is easy,fast and secure! with your home
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4 2. We can go to you to collect any donation or address or your
3. You can go online at email address.
http://www.vetsresource.org
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3. VRC receives 100/o of your credit card donations No administration fees are charged.
Please indicate in the comments that this donation is for the Chico/Butte County office. with anyone. And
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A veteran is someone who,at one point in his/her life,wrote a blank check made payable to"The
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3 letters a year.
Interested in sponsoring a page?Give us a call!
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Your contributions have made great impacts on the quality of life for our veterans whom we have `
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Your generous donations for the coming year will make it possible for CVRC to:
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• Continue to prevent homelessness,and VFW Chico for your
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House homeless veterans that do not qualify for our grant. is
3 CVRC provides veteran families with outreach, case management, and assistance in obtaining VA and Tom and Peggy Schaub >:
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other mainstream benefits that support housing stability and community integration. again for your latest
donation.
Intensive case management is an interactive process that provides veterans with support and services that F,
b are essential to being successful. The goal of case management is to help veterans develop the skills
necessary to achieve and maintain independence. The American Legion
in Durham. Thank you
F We understand how difficult it can be for veterans to access the benefits and services they have earned. for your continuing
With so many different resources and the red tape of bureaucracy,it is easy to be confused and feel lost or
support.
overwhelmed. CVRC case management help connect veterans with the right resources to help them live ='
healthy lives and achieve their goals. r ?
Carianne for taking all
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From flet 1st 201 to Supt. 301h 2017. CVRC has housed 313 veteran f;imilics liar a total o1'589 people, of those great pictures
In lhosr same four�'ours. CVRC scr%cd 853 veterans Loud tluir fEmilic�. Not all were homeless,there are at the events.
t € many reasons a veteran would come into our office.
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As an_agency.we_focus ort being good stewards of.our grant money and donations._This means we_verify Thank you for your
our clients stories to assist they to make life style changes that will prevent them from repeating the
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instability of homelessness all through intensive case management.
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Together with your donations and our experience we can save lives.
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