J OINING C OMMUNITY F ORCES POC for this meeting is Colorado JCF Suzanne Buemi 720-250-1186, 303-921-6099, or Suzanne.m.buemi.ctr@mail.mil Holiday Inn Express-Castle Rock 610 Genoa Way, Castle Rock, Colorado 80109 Hotel Phone # 303-668-0888 Wednesday, July 15, 2015 Time: 9:00am - 12 pm Time Program Presenter 9:00am-9:10am Welcome and Updates Suzanne Buemi 9:10am - 9:30am Introductions All 9:30am - 9:45am Peak Military Care Network Kate Hatten 9:45am - 10:00am Break/Networking All 10:00am - 10:20am Military Care Giver Support Initiative Cara Coleman 10:20am - 10:40am CO Air Force Recovery Care Coordinator Denise O’Connor 10:40am - 11:00am Colorow Consultin, Inc. John Koontz 11:00am - 11:15am Break/Networking All 11:15am - 11:30am VA Home Loans Stephen Karich 11:30am - 11:50am DU Athletics: Military & Veterans Activities Ryan Peck 11:50am - 12:00pm Dell Military Destiny Lee 12:00pm - 12:05pm Future JCF Dates & Meeting Locations See Flyer If you haven’t already please RSVP to Suzanne Buemi at 720 -250-1186 OR suzanne.m.buemi.ctr@mail.mil. Light morning refreshments will be provided. Bring business cards and other pertinent information about you or the organization you represent. This will be a excellent networking opportunity! The purpose of the JCF is to implement a proactive and integrated program to ensure all Service Members and Family members receive the same quality of service and support from the closest component resource or community agency.
J OINING C OMMUNITY F ORCES Colorado JCF Holiday Inn Express-Castle Rock 610 Genoa Way , Castle Rock, Colorado , 80109 , 303-668-0888 Wednesday, July 15, 2015 9:00am to 12:00pm Directions For directions if you are driving in from Colorado Springs area . I-25 North Exit 184 Toward Meadows Pkwy Turn left onto Founders Pkwy Turn left onto Castleton Dr. Turn left onto Genoa Way For directions if you are driving from the Denver Metro area I-25 South Take the Meadows Pkwy, exit 184 toward Founders Pkwy. Merge onto Meadows Pkwy. toward Sedalia Turn left onto Castleton Dr. Turn left onto Genoa Way Point of Contacts: Suzanne Buemi: O: 720-250-1186 C: 303-921-6099
Peak Military Care Network Joining Community Forces 15 July 2015
Peak Military Care Network (PMCN) MISSION To connect the needs of our community’s military service members, veterans and their families to the highest quality resources by providing a central source for information, navigation and integrated services . VISION Health and well-being for all military service members, veterans, their families and the communities of the Pikes Peak region. PURPOSE The purpose of the PMCN is to create bridges across systems that improve access, leverage resources, build collaboration and ensure the highest standards of care for all military service members, veterans and their families.
PMCN Goals & Objectives 1. Provide centralized information and assistance 2. Increase awareness of, and access to, community resources 3. Facilitate/streamline connections to resources 4. Build a collaborative network of partner agencies 5. Increase understanding of military and veteran culture 6. Provide broad-based leadership and serve as a leading resource for the community 7. Improve outcomes for individuals and families and the communities of the Pikes Peak region
How We Meet Our Goals & Objectives “It helps me as a veteran because everything is going to be in one area so I can find what I need for education, disability, what I might need for my family, job opportunities...n ow I can go to this one (place) and get it done at once." Ruth, Army Veteran
How We Meet Our Goals & Objectives 27 partner agencies to-date; serving 25,000 + service members, veterans and their families across a full spectrum of needs Amblicab Angels of America’s Fallen AspenPointe CASA of the Pikes Peak Region Cedar Springs Hospital Community Partnership for Child Development Discover Goodwill El Paso County Department of Human Services Mt. Carmel of Colorado Peak View Behavioral Health Peak Vista Community Health Centers Phoenix Multisport Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments Pikes Peak Community College Pikes Peak Suicide Prevention Pikes Peak Workforce Center Pikes Peak United Way Project Sanctuary Rocky Mountain Human Services SET Family Medical Clinic TESSA The Home Front Cares The Independence Center The Resource Exchange UCCS-Veteran & Military Student Affairs Veterans Squaring Away Veterans Veterans Upward Bound
How We Meet Our Goals & Objectives *Results of PMCN professional development evaluation, December 2014 (Peak Research) With PMCN, “I can connect with fifteen organizations that want to work with me. I couldn’t do it in any other forum. We’re doing more information sharing, opening up direct communication channels.” Kevin Walda, Assistant Director, Veterans Upward Bound
How We Meet Our Goals & Objectives 6. Provide broad-based leadership and serve as a leading resource for the community (through the PMCN Advisory Board)
How We Meet Our Goals & Objectives 7. Improve outcomes • Nearly 300 calls to PMCN Call Center between January and June 2015 for • 92% of callers – veterans • 46% of callers – Post-9/11 veterans individuals • 62% of callers rank was E1-E4 and families • 31% of callers rank was E5-E6 • 75% sought financial assistance (food, utilities, and the etc.) • 11% sought housing assistance (rent, communities homelessness) • 7% connected to navigation services for of the Pikes multiple/complex needs Peak region: “The Peak Military Care Network (PMCN) is key in assisting our service members and their families in countless ways. As a nation, we put our service members in harm’s way; they have done their jobs; now it is time for us to do ours. The PMCN provides this support that is so richly deserved by these great American heroes.” Mark A. Graham, Major General, USA (Ret)
PMCN: A Community Force Multiplier Community “in - processing” & reintegration A central • Network of Care website – comprehensive services in one location • PMCN Call Center – personalized assistance/advocacy and “triage” in source for partnership with Pikes Peak United Way/2-1-1 trusted • PMCN partner agencies – working together to understand and meet needs and streamline access to multiple services information • Increased awareness of and access to available resources • Partnership with Rocky Mountain Human services for longer term support; Navigation “warm hand - off” and follow -up focused on outcomes for individual/family • Proactive navigation support for transitioning service members/families in assistance development Integrated • A holistic approach to address complex/interrelated needs • A coordinated system of care, instead of fragmented, piecemeal services assistance, supports family stability and community health and well-being
PMCN’s Impact “ We need pretty much Health and well-being for service members, veterans every kind of support and their families – and the communities in the region there is: educational, vocational and financial. Soldiers Economic benefits through cost-avoidance and should know about all leveraging resources: of these things that are out there to help. • Cost savings by reducing behavioral health hospitalizations and It is stressful trying to veteran homelessness get a job in this • Increased tax base and decreased costs to DoD/state government for economy and get set unemployment benefits up in school. If I hadn’t • Support for children and families (every $1 spent on early care and had all of this lined up education results in $7 in economic benefits to the community) and organized the way Service members remain focused on mission because I did, I would have been totally lost.” community supports full needs of families Brian, Army Veteran
PMCN’s Ongoing/Next Steps Expansion of Services “The Police • Additional partner agencies; access to more services Department interacts with • Call-in assistance to triage/connect to services the • More (and more proactive) navigation support military/veteran community Enhanced Outreach & Awareness every day in a variety of • Trainings – for community and providers circumstances. The work PMCN • Information-sharing – to learn from each other does for our • Outreach to service members, veterans and family members military makes our jobs a little • Continued engagement of military and community leadership – easier .” Pete facilitating connections Carey, Chief of • Program evaluation/outcomes measurements (at systems, Police, City of program and individual level) Colorado Springs Securing Sustainable Funding Sources • Key community partners
Contact: Kate Hatten khatten@pmcn.org 719-527-3965
Military Caregiver Support Initiative POC: Cara E. Coleman, (719) 424-2409; cara.e.coleman2.ctr@mail.mil 1
POC: Cara E. Coleman, (719) 424-2409; cara.e.coleman2.ctr@mail.mil 2
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