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YWCA’s Operation Sisterhood seeks statewide funding to help New Jersey women veterans
Summary
Lucy Delgaudio, a U.S. Army veteran, told the Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee that Operation Sisterhood will provide housing, workforce development and trauma‑informed mental‑health services for women veterans; she asked the committee to support statewide funding to expand the program.
Lucy Delgaudio, a U.S. Army veteran speaking for the YWCA of Northern New Jersey, asked the Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee on the record to back Operation Sisterhood, a new program designed to help women veterans transition to civilian life.
Delgaudio told the committee that women now represent about 10% of the U.S. veteran population and that New Jersey has roughly 26,000 women veterans. She said a New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs survey found roughly…
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