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Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency outlines resource center, homelessness and suicide prevention efforts to legislature
Summary
Executive Director Brian Love described MVAA programs including a veterans resource call center, veteran service officers, grants, the Michigan Veterans Trust Fund, CORE regional outreach, the buddy-to-buddy mentorship program and suicide-prevention work; he provided state homelessness figures and said MVAA is expanding outreach.
Brian Love, executive director of the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency, told the House Family and Veterans Committee that the agency’s work centers on connecting veterans and their families to federal and state benefits and community resources.
Love said MVAA was created in 2013 to be the state’s central coordinating agency for veterans’ benefits and that the agency’s mission is to help veterans "stand for those who have served." He said MVAA staff total about 61 people and that many staff members are veterans or have family members who served.
The agency’s first line of assistance is a veteran resource service center reachable by a statewide number; Love repeatedly urged veterans and family members to call the center for help obtaining records (DD-214s), emergency services, referrals to county or nonprofit…
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