Sunday, May 18, 2014

Veterans Helping Veterans TV, SF VEC Job Fair and VECSM Updates.

May has been a very busy month for us.  We attended and filmed at the San Francisco Veterans Employment Committee Job Fair on Thursday, May 15.
These are 1 minute video highlights from employers like
Bauer I.T.   http://youtu.be/aZyFKsIifLw
Durham School Services.   http://youtu.be/5Yl6F1662hY
and the San Francisco Police Department.    http://youtu.be/1jVxh_TlHeQ.
Also presented is the Chairman of the San Francisco Veterans Employment Committee, Chuck Reed
http://youtu.be/4skksLl4sbs
and the Executive Director of the SF Harbor House, Marcy Orosco http://youtu.be/3SSdndr6fCo.

VHVtv presents "JOBS and SERVICES 4 VETS" playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqDNmaBGGYvXsx_dwGUfE6E8ZOSlxxZ14

Veteran Employment Committees assist the EDD Job Service Vet Rep staff in providing some work related expenses for job seeking vets. The VEC's are comprised of veterans and military supporters who volunteer their time and talents to help our vets get a job by organizing and presenting Job Fairs.

VHVtv is produced by the Veterans Employment Committee of San Mateo.  www.vecsamnet.org.

VHVtv attended the National Launch of "Vet Cap" at the ViT in San Francisco on May 14. The Vets in Tech is a wonderful organization that encourages veterans to become business entrepreneurs.  Here I am with co producer (R) Jesse Austin.


VHVtv has been a member since the beginning. From one of the first meetings of ViT, at the Adobe in SF,  here is  (L) to (R) Helen Wong, co- producer VHVtv, Joanne Martinez, Sheryl Shaffer and Dottie Guy.

We have created a new channel on Vimeo and here is the link  https://vimeo.com/veteranshelpingveterans

For our first videos we are uploading to Vimeo, we are introducing all interviews, as separate segments from the U.S. VETS interviews we filmed at March A.R.B. in Riverside during April 2013.  These are award winning interviews and we want to share them with you.


With (R) Erica Gomez, M.S.W., the Clinical Director at U.S. VETS - Riverside.

During January, I was part of the V WISE program in Long Beach.  V WISE means Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship.  It is the encouragement from ViT and V WISE that has convinced us that VHVtv can be turned into a business and we are making that transition.

It is not an easy process to start a business.  Our first step on this journey was when we were invited by Jim Wong and Jim Fitzgerald, Founders of the Acumen Academy, to attend their Small Business Start Up seminar sponsored by State Farm in San Diego in October 2013.  This compelled us to start writing our Business Plan.  This was great preparation and helped with completing the online course that is required before you can attend the V WISE.  http://whitman.syr.edu/VWise/


V-WISE was a great learning experience and further reinforced the belief that we can turn our concept of VHVtv into a business.  It is a work in progress.

We are grateful and Special Thank You to the AMVETS CA Women Veterans Committee for your sponsorship of the U.S. VETS Interviews and the C.D.V.A. Women Veterans Leadership Conference, San Diego 2013.  18 Veteran Leaders playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqDNmaBGGYvXKrycq5piN_Y3Ece1K_u6g

Follow us on Twitter @VHVtv.




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Thursday, May 8, 2014

Veterans Helping Veterans TV May 2014 Update

Veterans Helping Veterans TV advocates by having a video presence online www.VHVtv.org. There is a constant need for assistance from our veterans. How do we provide that?  VHVtv, created in 2009, is the original web tv series, and network platform, produced by veterans to outreach to other veterans online.

How do you use your influence in the world to do GOOD?  We do that by presenting individuals and groups that provide solutions to the many problems facing our veterans.  An example are the interviews we did with homeless vets in recovery at the U.S. VETS in Riverside and we are uploading those as individual segments to our newly created Veterans Helping Veterans TV Channel on Vimeo.  http://vimeo.com/veteranshelpingveterans

Another important topic is Traumatic Brain Injury.  Our most recent in studio filming was in March with Dr. Maya V. Yutis (R), a Neuropsychologist from the Polytrauma Clinic at the VA in Palo Alto, CA.


VHVtv presents "What is TBI?"  http://youtu.be/kzCXbB--794

May is Military Appreciation Month and we created in honor of Women Veterans, the "San Francisco Women Veterans Appreciation Day 2014." http://youtu.be/5l95vyw5zu8

This event and production costs were sponsored by the AMVETS CA Women Veterans Committee.

Here I am with one of the guests, Michele Spencer, author of  BAGHDAD Yoga (L).

VHVtv presents "VVA 464 Car Show and Outreach." http://youtu.be/7fTX_e5CbWY

The Outreach interviews were with William Boehm of Vet to Vet San Francisco, John P. Pieretti, Ride Captain of the Patriot Guard Riders of San Mateo County, Bill Hodges of VVA Chapter 400 Oakland, CA, Dustin Noll of the Peninsula Vet Center, Rich Brugger, Comdr. of the VFW Post 8750 Daly City and VFW Dist 14, and  Fred Loveland of Wounded Warrior '34 Ford. This event was presented by the Vietnam Veterans of America 464, the Steve Warren Memorial Chapter of Redwood City and filmed at the Veterans Memorial Building in Redwood City.


At the 2013 C.D.V.A. Women Veterans Leadership Conference in San Diego, we filmed 18 interviews. These interviews are in a playlist on our YouTube channel.  Each interview has been uploaded separately and will eventually be uploaded to our new VHVtv channel on Vimeo.

These interviews were sponsored by the AMVETS CA Women Veteran Committee.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqDNmaBGGYvXKrycq5piN_Y3Ece1K_u6g

Lindsey Sin (L) is the Deputy Secretary of Women Veterans for the California Department of Veteran Affairs.  We encourage all women vets to get registered with the C.D.V.A.


Interviews with Bow Rodgers, CEO of Vet-Tech; Lydia Davey, CEO and Founder of Moriah Creatives PR and Ryan Micheletti, CFO of Portal tell how they started and became entrepreneurs. We encourage veterans to start their own companies.  Filmed in the Media Center studio in Palo Alto in October 2013 is "Vet-Tech."   http://youtu.be/H8ewCd-hh0k

The mission of VHVtv is to inform, educate and motivate veterans to learn about and apply for benefits. Joining and becoming involved with a veteran service organization is a great way to make a positive impact in the veteran community.

We have revised the Veterans Helping Veterans TV Channel on Placevine.  All our interview segments will be uploaded eventually.  Check us out on Placevine.
http://www.placevine.com/channels/veterans-helping-veterans

We continue our outreach and invite you to follow us on Twitter @VHVtv..