9News Senior Source is a web based location for the needs of the senior population. At Health Passport (which is also found at the 9News Senior Source) we help with insurance questions and resources for the aging community.
Buckley Retiree Activities
460 SW/CVE - Buckley AFB, CO 80011-9500
(720) 847-9213 or (720) 847-6693
Buckley Retiree Activities provides contacts and basic information for retirees and their families. The office is manned by a volunteer staff from 0900 to 1500 Monday through Friday. Info includes obtaining military records, medals and awards, VA benefits, Tricare for life and Delta dental info, etc. Assistance with casualty affairs, survivor benefit info, info on Fort Logan and the more.
Broomfield Veterans Memorial Museum
12 Garden Center, Broomfield, Co. 80020.
Broomfield Veterans Memorial Museum incorporated as a non profit in 2003 and shortly thereafter obtained a 501 c 19 status. Until 6 months ago they were housed in a one room of 550 square feet at this address and subsequently were granted the entire ground floor of the building. Property is owned by the City of Broomfield and but for them they would be still looking for acceptable space. They have spent the past 6 months accumulating sufficient memoribilia to fill 8 rooms and 2500 square feet.
The Civil Air Patrol is an auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force. It's three missions are emergency, services, cadet programs and aerospace education. As a cadet squadron, our emphasis is on young people ages 12-18. Adult volunteers are always welcome.
Denver Vet Center
7465 E. 1st Ave, Suite B, Denver, CO 80230
(303) 326-0645 www.va.gov/res
Denver Vet Center is an outpatient mental health clinic that focuses in individual, group, marital & family therapy with combat veterans.
Boulder Vet Center
2336 Canyon Blvd #103, Boulder, CO 80302
(303) 440-7306
Boulder Vet Center provides psychological Tx for Veterans dealing with readjustment issues related to military service.
National Guard family support office helps families. The transition assistant advisor is an advocate for Tricare and VA issues. They assist with making sure members and veterans are aware of benefites and assist them with getting them. They work with families on knowing what is available to them.
Colorado Departmnet of Labor & Employment Vets Program
The Colorado Department of Military and Veterans Affairs is the state agency responsible for all military and veterans issues. Their mission statement: To assist veterans, their depents and their survivors; to obtain state and federal benefits to which they are entitled.
They offer the following programs and services:
- Benefits representation
- Community Outreach and advocacy
- Incarcerated veterans and homeless veterans initiatives, Colorado State Veterans Cemetery Training, Counseling, and Certification to County Veterans Service Officers, Information and Referral with Colorado Department of Labor Employment Services, Veterans Employment perference and benefit letters, Women Veterans Programs, Coloradoe State and Veterans Nursing Homes and DD214/Medals Requests.
Colorado's State Veterans Homes provide long-term care, short-term rehabilitation, hospice care, memory care and short-term respite care for veterans, veterans' spouses, and "Gold Star" parents. The veterans homes are located in Aurora, Florence, Rifle, Monte Vista and Walsenburg, with the facility in Monte Vista also offering assisted living cottages. Unlike many nursing homes, the daily rate at State Veterans Homes includes the cost of medications, physical and speech therapy and medical supplies such as oxygen and wheelchairs. The veterans homes operate under the direction of the Department of Human Services, which oversees 64 county departments of social/human services and other services including the state's public mental health system, and the developmental disabilities system, and services for the aging.
The Denver / Boulder Better Business Bureau's mission is to be the leader in advancing marketplace trust and strives to create an ethical marketplace where buyers and sellers can trust each other. BBB accomplishes this mission by:
- Creating a community of trustworthy businesses
- Setting standards for marketplace trust
- Encouraging and supporting best practices
- Celebrating marketplace role models
- Denouncing substandard marketplace behavior.
Disabled American Veterans
VA Regional Office
155 Van Gordon Street, Denver, CO 80225
(303) 914-5570 www.dav.org
Disabled American Veterans offer free advocacy service to veterans and their family members who are trying to obtain benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs. DAV has never wavered in their commitment to serve our nation's service-connected disabled veterans, their dependents and survivors. Their largest endeavor in fulfilling that mission is their National Service Program. In 88 offices throughout the United States and in Puerto Rico, the DAV employs a corps of approximately 260 National Service Officers (NSOs) who represent veterans and their families with claims for benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Department of Defense and other government agencies. Veterans need not be DAV members to take advantage of this outstanding assistance, which is provided free of charge.
NSOs function as attorneys-in-fact, assisting veterans and their families in filing claims for VA disability compensation and pension; vocational rehabilitation and employment; education; home loan guaranty; life insurance; death benefits; health care and much more. They provide free services, such as information seminars, counseling and community outreach. NSOs also represent veterans and active duty military personnel before Discharge Review Boards, Boards for Correction of Military Records, Physical Evaluation Boards and other official panels.
Douglas County Office of Veterans Affairs
The Office of Veterans Affairs staff provides: services and assistance to military veterans and their dependents. They provide information about and assist veterans and their families in accessing veterans benefits and services.
The American Legion, Department of Colorado
7465 E. 1st Ave. Ste "D", Denver, CO 80230
The American Legion, since 1918 has worked "for God and country," committed to four distinct pillars, Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation; National Security; Americanism; Children and Youth. During this event we will have Legion brochures which will provide information to our veterans on the programs that The American Legion offers to assist veteran and their families.
Colorado's first aviation theme independent/assisted living home catering to retired aviators and aviation enthusiasts and all Veterans who would thrive in a nostalgic environment reflecting the passion of flight.
Vintage Aero Flying Museum / Home of The Lafayette Foundation
The Vintage Aero Flying Museum, located at Platte Valley Airport, houses one of the largest collections of World War I, Golden Age and World War II aviation memorbalia in the world.
Eastern Colorado Health Care System / The Denver Veteran's Administration
The Denver VA Healthcare System has joined a nationwide initiative to offer our veterans an alternative to institutionalized long term care; Medical Foster Homes (MFH). Medical Foster Homes will provide care, in a non-institutional, community based family setting, for eligible veterans who are dependent, chronically or terminally ill. This alternative long term level of care will allow veterans to have the option of remaingin in a community family setting, when they lack the social or medical supports to remain in their own homes. In a medical foster home, the veteran will receive round the clock supervision and care from their caregiver, as well as medical care from the Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) program at the Denver VA.
Ex WAVES of Colorado
(303) 343-7609
Ex WAVES of Colorado meet socially for lunch on the first Saturday of most months, at various restaurants around town, at noon.
MOAA Government Relations works numerous issues affecting military people, such as pay, allowances, health care, pharmacy, and TRICARE (the military's health care program). Each has relevance to active duty and military retiree groups, depending upon the issues before Congress. The current hot issue is that the Department of Defense is proposing in the next President's Budget to raise annual TRICARE (health care) fees for military retirees under age 65. In some cases, the costs to military retirees will double or triple by 2009. This will have a large impact on the retirees, 2/3 of whom are enlisted, and will impact morale and retention of the active force. It truly is a readiness issue. MOAA opposes the fee increases, and has the experts to talk about the details and big picture of this initiative. You also can talk with military retirees affected by the proposal.
Military Order of the Purple Heart
1458 Cherrywood Way, Longmont, CO 80501
(303) 682-4385
Military Order of the Purple Heart is a veterans service organization that provides assistance to all veterans who need help with VA claims or other personal assistance. No purple heart required for help.
The Military Order of the Purple Heart is a Congressionally Chartered Veterans Service Organization with approximately 41,000 members organized into six geographic regions in 47 state departments and 470 Chapters. Their nation-wide network of more than 85 offices staffed by over 170 trained National Service Officers (NSO) accredited by the Department of Veteran Affairs serves ANY veteran, his wife, and children in obtaining their rightful VA Benefits. In 2008 the NSO assisted more than 60,000 veterans in filing claims and made over 2,700 outreach visits to Vet Centers, Hospitals and Military Installations.
The National Veterans Wheelchair Games are a multi-event sports and rehabilitation program for military service veterans who use wheelchairs for sports competition due to spinal cord injuries, amputations, or certain neurological problems. Attracting more than 500 athletes each year, the National Veterans Wheelchair Games is the largest annual wheelchair aports event in the world. This year the events will take place at the Denver Convention Center, and other area venues in and aournd Denver, Colorado from July 4-9, 2010.
Denver Office • 9900 E. Iliff Ave. • Denver, Colorado 80231
Colorado Springs Office • 2 N. Cascade Ave. Suite 1100 • Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903
1-866-245-6600 • www.operationtbifreedom.org
Operation TBI Freedom specializes in care coordination to provide the best individualized supports and resources for military personnel and veterans with traumatic brain injuries (TBI). Care coordination helps each individual with TBI:
• Manage crisis situations
• Identify resources
• Learn self advocacy
Our Care Coordinators listen to the specific needs and help link service members to services and funding resources to which they are entitled.
Queen City Chapter of Korean War Veterans
Queen City Chapter KWVA
3120 Baylor Dr., Boulder, CO 80303-5802
Their mission is simple: Rocky Mountain Honor Flight raises funds to fly our WWII Veterans back to Washington, D.C. to visit their WWII Memorial for FREE.
TriWest Healthcare Alliance
5475 Mark Dabling Blvd, Suite 210, Colorado Springs, CO 80918
1-888-TRIWEST (814-9378) www.triwest.com
TriWest Healthcare Alliance partners with the Department of Defense to do "Whatever It Takes" to support the healthcare needs of 2.7 millions members of America's military family. A Phoenix-based corporation, TriWest provides access to cost-effective, high-quality health care in Colorado and 20 other states in the TRICARE West Region.
VA Health Administration Center
Department of Veterans Affairs
Health Administration Center
3773 Cherry Creek North Drive
(303) 331-7864
The Health Administration Center (HAC) administers federal health benefit programs for Veterans and their family members through the Civilian Health and Medical Program for the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA), the Foreign Medical Program, Spina Bifida and Children of Women of Vietnam Veterans health care programs.
Vietnam Veterans of America came into being in the late 1970's to address the lack of assistance the Vietnam Veterans were getting from the government in general and the VA in particular. In the past they have led the movement to get adequate recognition for Agent Orange related disease and for proper treatment for PTSD. Today VVA continues to assist the Vietnam Veteran in need as well as the more recent war veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan and our earlier generations from Korean War and WWII who seek help.
Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program
Department of Human Resources
Richard Castro Bldg
1200 Federal Blvd, 1st Floor
720-944-3500
Mission Statement: The mission of the H.V.R.P. Program is to assist those homeless veterans that are in need of employment. These services include job preparation, resume assistance, interview skills, job search resources and referrals for services.
Case management is provided to all participants as well as supportive services that could include bus token, pus passes, food and product vouchers and in some cases, temporary or transitional housing.
Veterans Green Jobs provides exemplary green jobs education and career development opportunities for military veterans, empowering and supporting them to lead America’s transition to energy independence, ecological restoration, community renewal, and economic prosperity.
Dignity Memorial is the largest cemetery and funeral provider in the United States. Currently we serve approximately 250,000 families each year through our network of 1,800 providers. Locally Olinger Mortuaries and Cemeteries is part of the family of providers. Olingers has been serving the Denver community since 1890.
