Easter Seals Disability Services

Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust, Inc. Grant for $10,000 Benefits Easter Seals New Hampshire Veterans Count Military Families

The Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust, Inc. has made a generous grant of $10,000 to help support Easter Seals New Hampshire Veterans Count, which provides aid and addresses the challenges that New Hampshire Guard and Reserve members and their families face throughout the often-difficult deployment cycle.

“This grant will be used to help bridge the financial gap and provide emergency funds for service members and their families as they deal with the unique challenges of military service,” said Easter Seals NH President and CEO Larry Gammon. “This generous gift allows us to continue providing support to our neighbors throughout the state who have sacrificed so much for our country.”

Through the Easter Seals NH Veterans Count program, launched in 2007 in collaboration with the NH Department of Health and Human Services and the NH National Guard, all service members and their families are paired with an Easter Seals Care Coordinator who helps them to access Veterans Count funding and gifts-in-kind to provide direct emergency financial support that may include food, fuel assistance, utilizes, auto care, home maintenance, transportation, housing, rent, medical bills, child care, and other goods and services that promote self-sufficiency.

Easter Seals Care Coordinators currently manage more than 1,000 individual cases and that number is expected to grow to 2,000 by the end of the year. Since Easter Seals launched the program, more than 1,500 military families have been served.

“The DAV Charitable Service Trust is proud to partner with Easter Seals New Hampshire to address the needs of New Hampshire’s Guard and Reserve members and their families in an era tested by the challenges of war, said Dick Marbes, Chairman of the Trust.” Through our efforts to build better lives for America’s disabled veterans and their families, our country grows stronger.”

If you would like to support local veterans and their families, please call 603.621.3456 or make an online donation at http://www.eastersealsnh.org/.

About Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust
The Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust is dedicated to one single purpose: building better lives for our nation’s disabled veterans and their families. To carry out this responsibility, the Trust supports a wide array of physical and psychological rehabilitation and relief programs, ensures quality health care for veterans, benefits aging disabled veterans, enhances research and mobility for profoundly disabled veterans, lifts homeless and needy veterans up from despair and evaluates and addresses the needs of veterans disabled in recent wars and conflicts. The Trust continues to seek new and innovative ways to make a positive difference in the lives of disabled veterans and their families.  http://www.cst.dav.org/

About Easter Seals New Hampshire
Easter Seals provides exceptional services to ensure that all people with disabilities or special needs and their families have equal opportunities to live, learn, work and play in their communities. Easter Seals services include autism services, inclusive child care and early intervention, special education, medical rehabilitation, camping and recreation, transportation services, vocational services, senior services, substance abuse services, adult day care programs, transportation services, residential service options and veteran services. As a leader in health care services for individuals with disabilities and special needs, ESNH employs more than 1,400 individuals who serve 20,000 children, adults and seniors in over 60 programs throughout the state. To learn more about Easter Seals NH, visit http://www.eastersealsnh.org/.

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