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Meeting Minutes

Hamilton County Veterans Corp Meeting Agenda

Oct 7th, 2024, 7pm Fishers American Legion Post 470, 9091 E 126th St

  • Pledge of Allegiance / Silent Prayer
  • Welcome Guests & New Members
    • Introductions of everyone –
      • New Members – Tom Vlasic, Andrew Grimes
  • Sick Call – Skip Stackhouse

Old Business

  • National Guard / Army Reserve and Financial update – Mark Fiddler
  • Coffee with a Veteran the last Saturday of the month at School House 7 Café is gaining members! 12125 Cyntheanne Rd, Fishers from 8-9am.– Cliff Morlan
  • MASH Ministries PTSI workshops now has morning and evening sessions. Mondays – 7-8pm at the Noblesville American Legion 273 S 8th St and on Fridays 9-10am at the Life Church Coffee House 2166 Sheridan Rd Noblesville. – Ron
  • This last Saturday’s Hamilton County Veterans Service Organization Coalition Breakfast / Meeting to introduce several of our resource partners to the Posts and our federal, state and county officials was a success. The turnout was over 50% of those invited, but sometimes to get the ball rolling in the right direction, a smaller team is best. It sparked many discussions and has opened the door for more eager discussions to tear down walls and work together for our future Veteran community. We all agreed we would do this at least quarterly so we will look at a date for early December at the Fishers Post. I will ask Nancy Chance what GSN needs and we will make it a fundraiser for all Posts to gather goods from now till this meeting and bring the goods to the meeting – Bill
  • The Stronger Veterans Stronger Communities Coalition to prevent Veteran suicides has been granted $164K from the IDVA Governor’s Challenge for the 2024-2025 year to implement our plan to reach into our community and introduce the resources to those who are not connected and save lives. We have already attended over 21 events since June and will be setting up a marketing strategy to take us to the next level to reach our Veterans who are not connected. – Bill
  • Talks are still ongoing with Noblesville about building a Woody Williams Gold Star Family Memorial. It may take until 2025 for the idea to get momentum – Ron
  • Noblesville has started hanging Hometown Hero Banners on city light poles Honoring our Military, Veterans and First Responders. More are being added. – Ron
  • We are working with local elected officials to push the cities in Hamilton County to setup an Armed Forces Commission like Fishers has. Carmel and Westfield are stepping up and we have connected the Fishers team with them sharing ideas. We will be reaching out to Mayor Jensen of Noblesville and we will see what we can do for Atlanta, Cicero and Sheridan. Having the Armed Forces Commission in all our cities will open the door to truly connecting with our Military, Veterans and their families. – Bill
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New Business

  • The Hamilton County Community Resource Fair for 2025 will be a team effort between the HCVC, Good Samaritan Network and several other non-profits who will form a coalition to plan for 2 fairs a year. Nancy setup two dates but both are on Fridays, June 6 and Sept 26. Our guests need us to host our fair on Saturdays so I am working with other places and people to get us a Saturday in June and Oct or just October – Commissioner Heirbrandt meets with the Fairgrounds Thursday to get us a Saturday. Maybe we can help Nancy at the fairgrounds June 6 and she can help us on a Saturday in October – Bill
  • Hamilton County is looking to bring free mental health and local resources to our veteran community and their families thru an app and/or website. Meeting Oct 11th  – Bill
    • As we look at this App, we are also working to acquire software to create an app which will be a resource generator to direct anyone to the resources they need. Bill
  • How can we gain new members in the HCVC who want to work with us to move into the future helping our MVC? – All
    • We have opened the door for family members of Active Military or Veterans to join the HCVC and we have dropped our $25 annual dues – Thoughts
    • We might get with Britton Falls community Veterans Club to talk to their members about joining the HCVC. Are there other communities with Veterans we could meet with? – Bill
  • Upcoming events in 2024 that the HCVC will have a table at so we can tell all who we are, what we do and gain more members.
    • Hero Hut and other events coming up that we will have a table at are – Bill
      • Headless Horseman Conner Prairie October 18-19
      • Ascension St Vincents Trunk or treat Oct 19
    • Oct 23-24 HCVC Has a table at the MFRI Battlemind to Home Summit at the Embassy Suits at Hamilton Town Ctr off I-69. – Bill
    • Andrew Jent of Indiana Golf runs the PGA HOPE Program where the PGA holds 6 training sessions FREE for Veterans. The next one is at Barla Golf Academy in Noblesville starting Oct 26 and 2 spots are left. Interested look at our Page in the Reporter and it will take you to the website – Bill
  • Does anyone know of other events we should be at?
  • Mad Ants, a G League team of the Pacers is coming to Noblesville and we will be working with them to see how we can Honor our MVC and introduce the Mad Ants to Hamilton County – Bill
  • We will be hosting QPR & VA SAVE suicide prevention training at all our Posts and we might host CPR Lifesaving classes as well – Bill
  • We will work with Roudebush VA Benefits, our CVSOs and each Posts Service Officer to setup claims days at every Post – Bill
  • Indiana Veterans Legislative Day at the Statehouse happens January 2025 and the HCVC will be donating $100 for the breakfast and will have a table there to greet our Veteran community – Ron
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