June 2010

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She used Post-its. She drove around sticking them on bulletin boards around Memphis, Tennessee.
That’s how one Veterans Administration social worker contacts her clients to let them know about important information. They don’t have a reliable land line or cell phone – they can’t afford it.

We let her know there was an easier way to stay in touch with her clients called Community Voice Mail.
Right now, Community Voice Mail National is focused on extending its reach into social service systems like the Veterans Administration. Our goal is to see that any veteran who needs CVM gets it and that they receive regular broadcast messages with tailored information and resources.

For homeless or near-homeless veterans, this means:

Never missing an important call (i.e. from the Veterans Administration);
Connecting faster to stability– from health services, housing, job opportunities;
Reconnecting with loved ones and in the words of one client, “feeling alive again!”

For our veteran-serving agency partners, this means:

Reducing the backlog of claims from more than half a million waiting to secure health & disability benefits;
Shrinking the ranks of veterans currently living and dying on the streets; and
Preventing veterans from becoming homeless in the first place.

Would you like to be part of creating results like these? Then we invite you to join us. Help us continue to get CVM into the hands of the people who need it by making a one time or monthly contribution today.

Thank you so much,

Jenn Brandon - Executive Director