VETERANS ASSISTANCE COMMISSION Of Cook county
Please join us at our
Veteran Resource Picnic
Friday JULY 1, 2016
10:00 A.M.
McKinley Park
3900 S. Western
on pershing road
East of Swimming Pool & Basketball Court
Chicago, Illinois
We will provide LARGE BBQ grill
Hot dogs, Hamburgers & soda
Please bring your own Table & Chairs
Feel Free to bring your own BBQ Grill, food & drink
Donations Welcomed
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Chicago Regional Office announcement;
Claims Clinic
When: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Where: Chicago Heights Vet Center 1010 Dixie Hwy, 2nd Floor Chicago Heights, IL 60411
In honor of your service, please let us assist you with your benefit claim questions. Representatives from the Department of Veterans Affairs and several Veteran Service Organizations will be available.
“Veterans Helping Veterans”
You are Cordially Invited to the
Veterans Assistance Commission of Cook County
Annual Corned Beef & Cabbage Awards Luncheon
2:00 p.m. Sign-In & Cocktail Hour
3:00 p.m. Please be on time and seated, Dinner Served Promptly at 3:00 p.m.!
Ukrainian Cultural Center 2247 West Chicago Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60622
Donation: $25.00 per person
Reserve Your Table of 8 Today ($200.00)
Tax Deductible Donations Welcomed
Rochelle Crump, Chairperson Annual Corned Beef & Cabbage Awards Luncheon
“Relax and have some good food and good fun with good friends”
Please RSVP by March 17, 2018
Make Checks Payable To: Veterans Assistance Commission of Cook County or (VACCC)
Mail to: ATTN: Peter Bencak, VAC Treasurer, 2135 W. Potomac Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60622-8270
(773)578-6868 cell
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The Right to Heal VA Campaign (RTH) is calling on all veterans that care about saving the VA to join us tomorrow at a hearing on VA privatization and why it is not the solution. At the hearing we will make a call to action and announce an informational picket and press conference at Federal Plaza on Friday. Details below.
Call to Action & Workers’ Rights Board Hearing
Where: Conference Room, Second Floor, Damen Building
Jesse Brown VA, 820 S Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
When: 4:30PM | Thursday, May 17, 2018
RSVP by mailing Right to Heal <RightToHealVA@gmail.com> or join the event on Facebook
On May 17th, join us as the Right to Heal Campaign announces a call to action and next steps in the fight to unite veterans and VA workers to save the VA and fight back against privatization. After the announcement the Workers’ Rights Board will hold a hearing to discuss what VA privatization would mean for veterans. The hearing will feature experts in the field of VA care, veterans speaking to their experience of using both the VA and the private sector, and VA employees who have dedicated their lives to serving veterans.
Save The VA Press Conference and Informational Picket
Where: Federal Center and Plaza, 219 S Dearborn St, Chicago, Illinois 60603
When: 10AM | Friday, May 18, 2018
RSVP by mailing Right to Heal <RightToHealVA@gmail.com> or join the event on Facebook
The Save The VA Coalition and the Right To Heal VA Campaign will be holding an emergency press conference and informational picket to oppose H.R. 5674. The bill backed by the Trump adminstration and the Koch front group, Concerned Veterans of America would expand private healthcare vouchers at the expense of the VA healthcare system and give unprecedented powers to the VA secretary to make drastic changes, including authority to outsource/privatize services of VA healthcare without oversight or congressional approval.
With the firing of VA Secretary David Shulkin for not advancing a privatization agenda quickly enough and with continued disarray within the Trump administration in finding a replacement for Shulkin, we believe it is the worst possible time to give Trump such powers to change VA healthcare. We will be demanding that Senator Duckworth and Durbin hold the line against these terrible bills and vote no on these bills and other efforts to privatize the VA.
RSVP by emailing Right to Heal <RightToHealVA@gmail.com> or join the events on Facebook Right to Heal Hearing at the Jesse Brown VA & Save the VA Press Conference at Federal Plaza.
Veterans & VA Workers
United to Save the VA!
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“Veterans Helping Veterans”
You are Cordially Invited to the
Veterans Assistance Commission of Cook County
Annual Corned Beef & Cabbage Awards Luncheon
2:00 p.m. Sign-In & Cocktail Hour
3:00 p.m. Dinner Served Promptly at 3:00 p.m.!
Ukrainian Cultural Center 2247 West Chicago Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60622
Donation: $30.00 per person
Reserve Your Table of 8 Today ($240.00)
Tax Deductible Donations Welcomed
For Additional Information Contact: (773) 895-8015
Rochelle Crump, Chairperson, SR. Vice Commander
Jerry Thomas, VACCC Commander
Please RSVP ASAP
Make Checks Payable To: Veterans Assistance Commission of Cook County or (VACCC)
Mail to: ATTN: Peter Bencak, VAC Treasurer, 2135 W. Potomac Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60622-8270
(773)578-6868 cell
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About this event
Join BACE and DePaul SHRM for a virtual panel discussion on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: challenges, best practices, research, and insights from experienced leaders.
Zoom: https://depaul.zoom.us/j/98895600793?pwd=Skc1SUlIY015T0FlSWgrdVdHNmIyQT09
Panelists include:
Valerie C. Johnson, Ph.D.
Interim Associate Provost for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Associate Professor, Political Science Department
Endowed Professor of Urban Diplomacy, the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy
DePaul University
Michael A. Pett
Head of Military and Veteran Programs
Uber
Moderated by Professor Sharon Glennon, Department of Management & Entrepreneurship, DePaul University
BIOS:
Valerie Johnson, PhD
Interim Associate Provost of DEI in the Office of Academic Affairs, DePaul University
As interim associate provost, Johnson reports to the provost and provides vision, leadership and counsel on issues of diversity and inclusion. She continues to work with the colleges on matters dealing with diversity and inclusion, including exploring ways to infuse diversity into the curriculum, reviewing policies, working with the college diversity advocates and collaborating with colleges on the recruitment and retention of a diverse faculty. In this role, Jonson chairs the Speech and Expression Advisory Committee and become a member of Academic Council and Provost Council. Johnson also works closely with the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity and with other entities on campus focusing on diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Johnson, who served as a Presidential Diversity Fellow during the 2021-22 academic year, is an inaugural recipient of the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Johnson earned a B.A. in political science at North Carolina A&T State University, an M.A. in, political science at Atlanta University; and holds a Ph.D. in government and politics from the University of Maryland. She has been a member of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences faculty since 2003. Now an associate professor in the college, she has served as chair of the Department of Political Science and, since 2021, as the Endowed Professor of Urban Diplomacy in the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy.
Michael A. Pett
Head of Military and Veteran Programs, Uber
Michael’s military journey began in 1998 with the US Army. He was fortunate to be stationed at Schofield Barracks, HI with the 25th Infantry Division where he was deployed to Iraq from December of 2003 through March of 2005. He served as a casualty operations specialist with the 225 Forward Support Battalion. This position required him to be pushed throughout the theatre of operations to process wounded warriors and local nationals from point of injury to combat support hospitals located in Iraq, Germany, and the United States. After 15 years of Active Duty and over 21 total years of service, Michael retired from the Illinois Army National Guard in September of 2019.
After exiting active duty, Michael joined Accenture as the North American Military Recruiting Lead. He worked tirelessly to create initiatives focusing on the professional development of student veterans, service members, & spouses. Now at Uber, Michael serves as the Head of Military and Veteran Programs where he has the distinct privilege of standing up the first ever global Military, Veteran, and Partner hiring program.
Moderator Bio:
Sharon Stapleton Glennon is a senior business professional with over 40 years of corporate financial, managerial and HR work experience who recently completing her fourth year of teaching management, human resource and data visualization courses for DePaul University in Chicago and Manama, Bahrain. She is a double demon having completed both her undergraduate degree in accountancy along with her MBA in Finance (this was way before there were any other business masters degrees such as MSHR) at DePaul University. Additionally, she holds both the SHRM-SCP and SPHR certifications and recently completed the HRCI Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion in HR Management. Sharon says she has been passionate about DEI since she found herself as a new auditor in a small town on her first client and learned that the client staff thought she was a traveling secretary to support the men on the audit team!
About this event
Join BACE and DePaul SHRM for a virtual panel discussion on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: challenges, best practices, research, and insights from experienced leaders.
Zoom: https://depaul.zoom.us/j/98895600793?pwd=Skc1SUlIY015T0FlSWgrdVdHNmIyQT09
Panelists include:
Valerie C. Johnson, Ph.D.
Interim Associate Provost for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Associate Professor, Political Science Department
Endowed Professor of Urban Diplomacy, the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy
DePaul University
Michael A. Pett
Head of Military and Veteran Programs
Uber
Moderated by Professor Sharon Glennon, Department of Management & Entrepreneurship, DePaul University
BIOS:
Valerie Johnson, PhD
Interim Associate Provost of DEI in the Office of Academic Affairs, DePaul University
As interim associate provost, Johnson reports to the provost and provides vision, leadership and counsel on issues of diversity and inclusion. She continues to work with the colleges on matters dealing with diversity and inclusion, including exploring ways to infuse diversity into the curriculum, reviewing policies, working with the college diversity advocates and collaborating with colleges on the recruitment and retention of a diverse faculty. In this role, Jonson chairs the Speech and Expression Advisory Committee and become a member of Academic Council and Provost Council. Johnson also works closely with the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity and with other entities on campus focusing on diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Johnson, who served as a Presidential Diversity Fellow during the 2021-22 academic year, is an inaugural recipient of the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Johnson earned a B.A. in political science at North Carolina A&T State University, an M.A. in, political science at Atlanta University; and holds a Ph.D. in government and politics from the University of Maryland. She has been a member of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences faculty since 2003. Now an associate professor in the college, she has served as chair of the Department of Political Science and, since 2021, as the Endowed Professor of Urban Diplomacy in the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy.
Michael A. Pett
Head of Military and Veteran Programs, Uber
Michael’s military journey began in 1998 with the US Army. He was fortunate to be stationed at Schofield Barracks, HI with the 25th Infantry Division where he was deployed to Iraq from December of 2003 through March of 2005. He served as a casualty operations specialist with the 225 Forward Support Battalion. This position required him to be pushed throughout the theatre of operations to process wounded warriors and local nationals from point of injury to combat support hospitals located in Iraq, Germany, and the United States. After 15 years of Active Duty and over 21 total years of service, Michael retired from the Illinois Army National Guard in September of 2019.
After exiting active duty, Michael joined Accenture as the North American Military Recruiting Lead. He worked tirelessly to create initiatives focusing on the professional development of student veterans, service members, & spouses. Now at Uber, Michael serves as the Head of Military and Veteran Programs where he has the distinct privilege of standing up the first ever global Military, Veteran, and Partner hiring program.
Moderator Bio:
Sharon Stapleton Glennon is a senior business professional with over 40 years of corporate financial, managerial and HR work experience who recently completing her fourth year of teaching management, human resource and data visualization courses for DePaul University in Chicago and Manama, Bahrain. She is a double demon having completed both her undergraduate degree in accountancy along with her MBA in Finance (this was way before there were any other business masters degrees such as MSHR) at DePaul University. Additionally, she holds both the SHRM-SCP and SPHR certifications and recently completed the HRCI Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion in HR Management. Sharon says she has been passionate about DEI since she found herself as a new auditor in a small town on her first client and learned that the client staff thought she was a traveling secretary to support the men on the audit team!