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HARLEM COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS COMMUNITY MEMORIAL DAY A Flag, a Flower, a Moment of Memorial This coming Memorial Day (Monday, May 25), NYC Veterans Alliance joins United War Veterans Council, NYC Department of Veterans’ Service, and NYS Division of Veterans’ Services in asking YOU to help us remember America’s fallen throughA Flag, a Flower, a Moment of Memorial. Public commemorations of Memorial Day have been cancelled in NYC, but we can come together virtually by sharing images and memories online. You can participate by taking a photo of an American flag and a flower and reflect on the meaning of the holiday with your family and friends. We welcome you to share stories of the servicemembers and veterans laid to rest who you are thinking of on this solemn day. You may also choose to share your thoughts on memorials or historic sites you’re thinking of as we take a day to commemorate those who gave all in America’s military conflicts. Please use the hashtag #FlagFlowerMemorial and share your image and thoughts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn. Help us fill social media with memories and meaning on Memorial Day.
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HARLEM COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS QUEENS Helping Veterans and Active Duty Military Cope With Social Isolation
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As a result of the COVID-19 pan demic, millions of veterans and active duty military personnel are on lockdown, many suffering from traumat ic brain injuries (TBIs), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or sub stance abuse. With the additional challenge of social isolation, finding ways to combat depres sion, anxiety and loneliness is critical.
That is why Help Heal Veterans (Heal Vets), a nonprofit founded during the Vietnam War, has gone into overdrive, ship ping more than 90,000 free craft kits since the beginning of the pandem ic and creating a newly designed kit to help veter ans make the masks they need to stay healthy and safe.
Operating on the prin ciple that not all medicine comes in a bottle, Heal Vets distributes kits in craft categories like masks, leatherwork, models, woodwork, jew elry, paint-by-numbers, needlecrafts, poster art, scrapbooks and more. Crafting can provide ther apeutic and rehabilitative benefits, including im proving fine motor skills, cognitive functioning, memory and dexterity, and can help alleviate feelings of anger and the severity of negative behaviors triggered by PTSD and TBIs.
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in due to the COVID-19 pandemic, kits have been distributed to more than 90 Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers around the country and a large number of military bases, state veteran homes and other locations where the need is great.
In a recent survey of vets, 94 percent of those polled who use Heal Vets craft kits said the kits helped them have a more positive outlook on life, and 98 percent said the kits took their mind off problems.
With many of the na tion’s veterans labeled high-risk now in lock down with little contact from others, (no visitors, no family allowed, no volunteers and limited staff interaction), it is par ticularly important to address suicide prevention, according to McClain.
“We’re working close ly with the VA Suicide Program to start includ ing VA-produced suicide prevention awareness and education material with our kits,” he says. “Our concern is that during this time of increased stress from isolation and finan cial uncertainty, some veterans may be at higher risk of taking their own life. We are hoping to raise awareness and im prove access to craft therapy kits to help mitigate that risk.” Craft care specialist, Kathy Vanasse, prepares craft kits for veterans. Courtesy of Help Heal Veterans
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To learn more about Heal Vets and the orga nization’s COVID-19 efforts, as well as find out how you can help, visit HealVets.org.
Anxiety, depression and other mental health challenges can be exac erbated during this quarantine period. Luckily, there are tangible ways to support isolated and sick veterans in their most sig nificant time of need.
The Black crisis in the midst of the coronavirus crisis Pandemic brings years of healthcare disparities to the forefront
By Lisa Fitch, OW Editor-in-Chief D r. Maulana Karenga, chair of the Depart ment of Africana Studies at CSU Long Beach, wants the Black community to make sure that physical distancing during the pan demic does not interfere with relationships or establishing networks.
Karenga was recently featured on the Carl Nelson Show and conducted a phone conference with Nelson and his radio audience at WOL radio in Washington, D.C.
During the show, Karenga admitted that there is a lot of fear and confusion out in the world now, and he warned against buying into the con spiracy theories which can pit persons against each other. He also expressed his dismay with the information the government issues to the public.
“They don’t have cultur ally competent messages for us,” Karenga said, claim ing that at least 46 percent of coronavirus victims are Black. “Even though Black people are in the emerging hot zones… Chicago, De troit, Milwaukee, New Orleans…we lack the ethnic data. Who’s tested positive? Who has died? We don’t have any of that.”
Former President Barak Obama agreed, raising the issue at a virtual meeting with mayors, local leaders and members of response teams from around the world. “When you start looking at issues of domestic abuse and you start looking at racial dis parities that are popping up in your cities, paying attention to that is the kind of leader ship I know all of you aspire to,” Obama said. “You have to be intentional about these issues.”
Rep. Karen Bass (CA-37), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus holds frequent town hall teleconferences on various subjects. “Healthcare disparities in our country have been a long-standing is sue and concern for the Congressional Black Caucus,” Bass said. “The spread of the coronavirus has compounded these issues, leaving Black people even more vulnerable. We need to urgently address these disparities with a target ed response to our community.” “It’s not that [Blacks are] getting infected more of ten,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci during a recent With House briefing. “It’s that when they do get infected with their un derlying medical conditions — diabetes, hypertension, obesity, asthma – those are the kind of things that wind them up in the ICU and ulti mately death.”
Fauci says the pandemic is shining a bright light on the healthcare disparities which have always existed in the country and added that ef forts to limit these disparities should resume after this glob al crisis. “Early data on deaths show that no group is immune from COVID-19,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in his recent news briefings. “We need every community to understand this can affect you. No matter what commu nity you live in or come from, this can affect you.”
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