Announcements

Two New Veteran/Military Friendly Congregations Enroll

December 10, 2016 Tennessee Pastor Larry Trotter and Stephen Yeaney enroll in the VMFC initiative. Senior Pastor Larry Trotter has enrolled his church, Concord UMC,  into the Veteran/Military Friendly Congregation (VMFC) program in August 2016 & approved a new Vet to Vet TN Knox Outpost in their church.  Our first Knoxville Regional Veterans Mental Health…

Covenant Homecare/Hospice & V2VT Partner in “We Honor Vets” Program

December 8, 2016, Knoxville, Tennessee The Council and Vet to Vet Tennessee finalized their new outreach program: “We Honor Vets” QPR suicide prevention program.  Clinical Social Worker Cindy Winterberger from Covenant Homecare/Hospice requested that we partner together on the “We Honor Vets” program a few months ago.  Covenant Homecare/Hospice is a Tier 2 “We Honor…

McNabb features Loudon County Veterans Court Graduate

December 6, 2016  Knoxville, Tennessee Vet to Vet Tennessee received an electronic copy of the Helen Ross McNabb’ 2016 Annual Report.  Featured on front page is Michael McGrail, USMC, Graduate of the Loudon County Veteran Court and one of the first veterans who completed the new Helen Ross McNabb Military Services (HMMS) program.  Not only…

Family, friends hope veteran’s suicide leads to change

November 28, 2016  Murfreesboro, TN John Darwin Reese Toombs, age 32, passed away November 23, 2016. He was a native and lifelong resident of Rutherford County. John was an Afghanistan.veteran of the United States Army National Guard, 230th Signal Company. Click here to view John’s last testimony, Stop treatment as usual (TAU) We must “Do…