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Promoting Awareness
Of The Ex Forces
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Aims and Objectives
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To promote and establish a robust support
system across Yorkshire for the most vulnerable ex forces
community across our county.
(Especially those at risk of homelessness)
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To gather information with regard the size
and needs of this group. |
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To establish links with statutory and
voluntary groups to achieve the outcomes above and build links
to. |
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Encourage support through association;
promoting forums and group therapies for local ex forces
communities. |
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To challenge the Veterans Agency with regard
the system used to determine pension payments and support
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Benefits to signing up
Local ex forces communities can access the services
they need when they need them.
Housing Providers, Statutory Services and Charities
supporting them could agree to work in partnership to improve
outcomes.
Extra funding could be requested from relevant
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Vision for the Future
Yorkshire becomes a leader in formulating and
promoting a working model for providing the support veterans who
encounter problems deserve. |
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Promotion
Sue is available to run training days and workshops
to promote the awareness programme.
Target Audience for this:-
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Housing Providers / Probation / GP's /
Charities & Community Mental Health teams.
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Facts Found
1000 soldiers are discharged every year on "health
grounds".
8500 Veterans are detained in prisons.
No actual figures exists as to how many are in
interacting with CMHT'S or probation or waiting for priority
treatment.
American figures suggest between 40 and 50% of
Soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq suffer psychological
problems on return.
MOD figures in this country claim 2 to 4 %.
Shelter suggest 1 in 3 street homeless are members of
the ex forces community.
1 in 6 adults will have served with the forces.
A veteran aged 16-44 is twice as likely to be
unemployed and 7 times more likely to develop mental health problems
as his civilian counterpart.
Lastly a significantly higher proportion of the ex
forces community choose to resettle in the Yorkshire and Humberside
area making it the perfect place to start making an impact on the
services they receive.
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