PTSD/Substance Abuse Committee
The PTSD/SA Committee has been hard at work during the past 12 months. What follows is a partial list of the committee's accomplishments and initiatives.The committee's "Policy and Procedures" document was approved unanimously at the April VVA Board of Directors meeting.The committee sponsored a nationwide PTSD poster contest in which 13 people submitted entries. The winning entry will be selected by the end of October.Since February, 55,000 copies of the PTSD tri-fold brochure have been printed. More than 50,000 have been distributed around the country with the help of VVA's Council of State Council Presidents, VVA Service Officers, and the national VVA office staff. The most innovative distribution effort was initiated by Mokie Porter, national office Committee Liaison, who gave a box of the brochures to airline attendants staying at the Sheraton Hotel in Nashville during the VVA National Leadership Conference in August. She asked the flight attendants to distribute the brochures to our returning Iraq and Afghan troops.The committee sponsored a presentation at the Leadership Conference. More than a hundred conference participants attended Dr. Joe Boscarino's presentation, "Exposure to Combat, PTSD,
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