Prostate Cancer: Support a Cure this Movember
It’s Movember. No, that’s not a typo. Movember is Moustache Season. It’s when clean-shaven men grow moustaches to show their support for prostate cancer research and men’s health awareness programs. A Contest to Like This November, Alpha, and its sister Social Security disability advocacy group, Freedom Disability, are sponsoring a Moustache Photo Contest on Facebook [...]
Continue Reading →Veterans Job Bank for Veteran-Committed Businesses
At our September “Hire Our Heroes” symposium, employers wanted to know how they could connect with veterans looking for jobs. One way is at the Veterans Job Bank, at the National Resource Directory (NRD), a Web site created in partnership with the Departments of Defense, Labor and Veterans Affairs. About the Veterans Job Bank The [...]
Continue Reading →Hiring Our Nation’s Veterans
Connecticut state leaders and private-sector employers gathered together at Alpha National Headquarters in Shelton, Connecticut on Monday, September 26 for a Hire Our Veterans Symposium to discuss why hiring veterans is good for business. The event was organized and hosted by Alpha, a veterans disability advocacy group. Alpha has a business model for hiring veterans recognized by state and local leaders as a business success. Over 90 percent of Alpha employees, many of whom are disabled, served in the military.
Continue Reading →Alpha Leaders Help Needy Veterans at Connecticut Stand Down 2011
For a second year, representatives from Alpha joined groups from across Connecticut at the State Veterans Home in Rocky Hill with one purpose.To help needy veterans. For Alpha’s Sean Libby and Allen Gumpenberger, it was an honor to be there.
Continue Reading →Gulf War Veterans Health Getting Worse
A health data study reveals that there is a higher rate of health-related problems for Gulf War veterans than for those veterans who did not deploy to the Persian Gulf.
Continue Reading →Agent Orange Use on Thailand Bases Supports Veterans Disability Claims
A specific group of Vietnam-era veterans with illnesses caused by Agent Orange exposure have struggled for years to prove it to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). These veterans, who served on military bases in Thailand from February 28, 1961 to May 7, 1975, have had their disability claims routinely denied. Why? Read on…
Continue Reading →Alpha Reaches Out to More Disabled Veterans
Alpha, a national Veterans Disability Advocacy group, has launched its first national television campaign…
Continue Reading →PTSD Awareness Can Help Veterans Heal the Invisible Wounds of War
Some veterans may not know that the hard-to-cope-with feelings they are experiencing has a name…
Continue Reading →VA Rules that Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Must Prove Agent Orange Exposure
The VA will take disability claims from Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans on a case by case basis…
Continue Reading →Second Living Warrior to Receive Medal of Honor
Sgt.1st Class Leroy Petry, Medal of Honor recipient, went beyond the call of duty to save fellow Rangers…
Continue Reading →Alpha’s Veterans Advocacy Director Makes Memorial Day Guest Appearance on Fox News
Allen Gumpenberger answers questions about Alpha on Fox News this Memorial Day…
Continue Reading →Camp Lejeune Update: Military Accused of Misleading Disabled Veterans
Controversy continues over linking 30 years of contaminated drinking water at the Camp Lejeune U.S. Marine Corps base to cancers in veterans…
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