The Veterans Voice
Episodes
Saturday Jan 28, 2023
Saturday Jan 28, 2023
In our first half hour, the AARP Foundation is back again with Tax-Aide and free tax preparation! Then, when you fins yourself in a sticky situation and you need legal advice, the Rocky Mountain Veterans Advocacy Project is standing tall and ready.
Call Mt. Carmel to Make Your Appointment(719) 772-7000
Apply for RMVAP Services
Call (720) 253-0963 or E-mail: clientservices@rmvap.org
In our second half hour, employers, you're missing out on high-value tax credits when you hire a veteran and February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. The signs of being abused your dating teen might be showing are subtle but the danger is real.
If you are a Veteran looking for work, or an employer looking to hire Veterans or are purposely hiring Veterans, go to https://veterantaxcredits.com to register. Or call Craig at (303) 578-6572 for help getting started.
Get Help with Teen Dating Domestic Violence
Download the Dating Violence Resource Guide
Love is Respect Call: 1-866-331-9474 or text LOVEIS to 22522 Online live chat www.loveisrespect.org
Break the Cycle 202-824-0707www.breakthecycle.org
The Veterans Voice Project presented by USAA is an Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center service. Veterans Voice Colorado Springs is produced in the OPTUM Podcast Studio, distributed via the Medicare Mentors Veterans Voice Podcast Channel, powered by Technology Partner Colorado Computer Support, and made possible in part by Supporting Partner, The WireNut Home Services.
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
In this podcast, Jim and Jane Bloise, NAMI Homefront Class facilitators, discuss the class and how military-connected families benefit. Homefront is a free, 6-session educational program taught by trained family members of service members and veterans with mental health concerns. It is built on the foundation of NAMI's flagship Family-to-Family class, but customized to address the unique needs of family, caregivers and friends of those who have served or are currently serving our country.
- Excerpted from NAMIColoradoSprings.org
The Homefront Class is FREE and begins February 1, 6:00 - 8:30 P.M.
REGISTER HERE
Call for more information: 719-473-8477
The Veterans Voice Project presented by USAA is an Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center service. Veterans Voice Colorado Springs is produced in the OPTUM Podcast Studio, distributed via the Medicare Mentors Veterans Voice Podcast Channel, powered by Technology Partner Colorado Computer Support, and made possible in part by Supporting Partner, The WireNut Home Services.
Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
In this Special to the Veterans Voice, a little cutting loose to honor lifetimes of service. Honor Flight of Southern Colorado presents Boots, Bubbles and Bourbon, a night to celebrate women Veterans and help fund their upcoming flight to commemorate the critical roles they played during times of war. Honor Flight's Cindy Long and Barbara Harris share a few touching stories and invite you to help keep them going!
GET YOUR TICKETS HERE
Featuring Country Music Performer, Jacob Christopher Listen to Jacob Here | Book the Band
DONATE TO HONOR FLIGHT
The Veterans Voice Project presented by USAA is an Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center service. Veterans Voice Colorado Springs is produced in the OPTUM Podcast Studio, distributed via the Medicare Mentors Veterans Voice Podcast Channel, powered by Technology Partner Colorado Computer Support, and made possible in part by Supporting Partner, The WireNut Home Services.
Saturday Jan 21, 2023
Saturday Jan 21, 2023
In our first half hour, a Veterans Path with 30-year Army veteran, Kathy Prue-Owens, and the path to Financial Peace with Financial Peace University facilitators, Mary and Mark Shuster.
Request Veterans Path Services
Register for Financial Peace University
Classes one day a week Feb 22-April 19Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center | 530 Communication Cir., Colorado Springs 80905$20 per family includes workbookCall Jonathan Helm to register: 719-309-4716
In our second half hour, three members of the military recall their experiences and offer encouragement for the next generation to join. Share this conversation with those you know considering a life in the service. Enjoy the listen together with Col. Mark Shuster, USMC Reserves; Oscar Vaughn, USAFA Ret. and Mike Lewis, USN Reserves, Ret.
The Veterans Voice Project presented by USAA is an Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center service. Veterans Voice Colorado Springs is produced in the OPTUM Podcast Studio, distributed via the Medicare Mentors Veterans Voice Podcast Channel, powered by Technology Partner Colorado Computer Support, and made possible in part by Supporting Partner, The WireNut Home Services.
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
During KRDO's Midday Edition, Dan Cochell talked with Ken Curtner, Lead Clinician with Veterans Services at UC Health, about the Next Chapter program, a community wellness collaborative serving Veterans and their families.
Request Next Chapter ServicesOr Call: 1-888-719-8387
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
This week on Veterans Voice, the best start to the new year could be getting a great job. Get the details on Mt. Carmel's January 25, hiring event. Then, also in January, the Travis Manion Foundation is teaching how to lead with your strengths and family character building.
The Veterans Voice presented by USAA is a service of Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center, produced in the OPTUM Podcast Studio, distributed via the Medicare Mentors Veterans Voice Podcast Channel, powered by Technology Partner, Colorado Computer Support and made possible in part by Supporting Partner, The WireNut Home Services.
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
On KRDO's Afternoon News, Dan Cochell talked with Mark and Mary Shuster, Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University Facilitators with Mt. Carmel, about their upcoming FPU class, taking place weekly from February 22nd to April 19th.
Register for FPUCall Jonathan Helm at 719-309-4716
The Veterans Voice presented by USAA is a service of Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center, produced in the OPTUM Podcast Studio, distributed via the Medicare Mentors Veterans Voice Podcast Channel, powered by Technology Partner, Colorado Computer Support and made possible in part by Supporting Partner, The WireNut Home Services.
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
On KRDO - Sal Katz, Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center Pueblo's operations manager, was recently interviewed by KRDO Newsradio's Dan Cochell about the upcoming Salute to Heroes event in Pueblo!
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
In this podcast, Nursing and Therapy Services of Colorado are Healing Heroes by providing home healthcare to veterans with physical disabilities. NTSOC's Daunte Davis and Chris Dahl explain how their veteran therapy programs can help with chronic pain and a variety of other common health concerns by maintaining or improving health and well-being.
- Excerpted in part from the NTSOC website.
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
KCME's Keith Simon talks with A Toast to Veterans co-emcees, Bob McLaughlin and Linda Weise, about kicking off the new year with a Monte Carlo-themed charity fundraiser complete with hors d’oeuvres, drinks, ballroom dancing, a silent auction, and an evening full of casino-style entertainment!
January 7, 2023 | City Auditorium
BUY TICKETS | BID ON AUCTION ITEMS
6:00PM Cocktails, Danding, Hors D'oeuvers and Silent Auction
6:30PM - Welcome & Toast: Linda Weiss, Ret. Col. Robert McLaughlin
6:30PM - Tables Open; Roulette, Blackjack, Craps, & Texas Hold'em
8:30PM - SILENT AUCTION CLOSE
9:00PM - Event Close
Cocktail Attire Encouraged!
The Veterans Voice presented by USAA is a service of Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center, produced in the OPTUM Podcast Studio, distributed via the Medicare Mentors Veterans Voice Podcast Channel, powered by Technology Partner, Colorado Computer Support and made possible in part by Supporting Partner, The WireNut Home Services.
Saturday Dec 31, 2022
Saturday Dec 31, 2022
The Travis Manion Foundation is teaching how to lead with your strengths and family character building.
Saturday Dec 24, 2022
Saturday Dec 24, 2022
Carrie Lukins and Preston Smith of 719 Heroes are working hard to house veterans. Mt. Carmel's Pueblo operations manager, Sal Katz, is positioning his team to grow and expand their range of services and getting ready for a Salute to Heroes. New Mt. Carmel partner, Oak Street Health's, Rob Parish, explains the advantages to veterans of managed care style health care. Be James Bond for a night and a cause, and much more in this week's edition of Veterans Voice!
Friday Dec 23, 2022
Friday Dec 23, 2022
Lives saved and critical financial benefits restored. That's the power of a partnership recently formed between Medicare Mentors and Oak Street Health. In this podcast, Oak Street Health's, Rob Parish, and Medicare Mentor's, Rich and Pam Lewis, share stories of how pairing up is leading to veterans lives greatly improved.
Request Oak Street Health ServicesCall: Rob Parish at 480-440-7886Email: robert.parish@oakstreethealth.com
Request Medicare Mentors ServicesCall: Rich and Pam Lewis at 719-886-3377Request Services Online
The Veterans Voice presented by USAA is a service of Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center, produced in the OPTUM Podcast Studio, distributed via the Medicare Mentors Veterans Voice Podcast Channel, powered by Technology Partner, Colorado Computer Support and made possible in part by Supporting Partner, The WireNut Home Services.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
In this episode of Planning Your Legacy, gifting your assets to others can be a valuable tool in estate planning.
Gifting can help you reduce your taxable estate and avoid the probate process.
You can donate appreciated property like stocks, bonds, and other securities while receiving a charitable deduction for the total market value of that asset. Along with that, you won’t pay any capital gains tax in the transfer .
Anyone can set up gift planning as part of their estate plan and when you do, you're helping Mt. Carmel better the lives of thousands of veterans, military and their families!
Get your planned giving questions answered.
Contact Dana Rocha, Director of Development and Fundraising
By phone: 719-309-4774By e-mail: drocha@mtcarmelcenter.org
Download Your FREE Planned Giving Guide
The Veterans Voice presented by USAA is a service of Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center, produced in the OPTUM Podcast Studio, distributed via the Medicare Mentors Veterans Voice Podcast Channel, powered by Technology Partner, Colorado Computer Support and made possible in part by Supporting Partner, The WireNut Home Services.
Saturday Dec 17, 2022
Saturday Dec 17, 2022
In this podcast, DRF's Mike Lawyer and Scott Schnurr share some startling facts about the plumbing trades and how you can leverage that information to your advantage.
Work in the Plumbing Trades
Ken Fisher, founder of Fisher House, is providing refuge to the families of ill veterans.
Connect with Fisher House
FREE massage for Veterans provided by Sarah Meadows, licensed massage therapist and Navy veteran at Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center every Monday. Openings in January.
Call 719-309-4714 to Reserve Your Session
The Veterans Voice presented by USAA is a service of Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center, produced in the OPTUM Podcast Studio, distributed via the Medicare Mentors Veterans Voice Podcast Channel, powered by Technology Partner, Colorado Computer Support and made possible in part by Supporting Partner, The WireNut Home Services.
Sunday Dec 11, 2022
Sunday Dec 11, 2022
Veterans Voice Pueblo host, Cassime Joseph, introduces you you to Josh Wills, a key member of Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center Pueblo. Josh was born in California, but his parents owned land in Huerfano County, Colorado, so they moved their family there in 1990. He followed family customs and served in the United States Navy.
Josh returned to school after serving in the military and earned an associate's degree in criminology at Bellevue College in Washington State. Afterward, he returned to Colorado and started working as a prison officer where he was later elevated to the case manager position.
Sunday Dec 11, 2022
Sunday Dec 11, 2022
In this edition of Veterans Voice, Mt. Carmel Executive Director, Bob McLaughlin, is looking back on 2022 and ahead to how Mt. Carmel will serve the military connected community in bigger, better and more ways in 2023. Then Nanette Brede' and how PrepConnect 360 is changing, and Chris Dahl and Daunte Davis on how Nursing and Therapy Service of Colorado is keeping veterans and their families healthy.
In Colorado Springs
Request Services: (719) 772-7000 | Open: 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Monday-Friday
530 Communication Cir. | COS, CO 80905
In PuebloRequest Services: (719) 309-4719 | Open: 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Monday-FridayWalk-In services at St. Mary-Corwin Hospital | Medical Arts Building1925 E. Orman Ave., Suite 156 Pueblo, CO 81004
Also in this podcast, Nursing and Therapy Services of Colorado are Healing Heroes by providing home healthcare to veterans with physical disabilities. NTSOC's Daunte Davis and Chris Dahl explain how their veteran therapy programs can help with chronic pain and a variety of other common health concerns by maintaining or improving health and well-being.
- Excerpted in part from the NTSOC website.
Request Healing Heroes Services Here
The Veterans Voice presented by USAA is a service of Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center, produced in the OPTUM Podcast Studio, distributed via the Medicare Mentors Veterans Voice Podcast Channel, powered by Technology Partner, Colorado Computer Support and made possible in part by Supporting Partner, The WireNut Home Services.
Saturday Nov 26, 2022
Saturday Nov 26, 2022
In this podcast you'll meet Cassime Joseph, newest member of the Veterans Voice team. He's leading our expansion in to Pueblo. Then, a veteran teaching veterans to make soap as a means of healing. You'll learn about The Empty Stocking Fund's efforts on behalf of Mt. Carmel and how you can help. And finally, a veteran owned, veteran friendly business with job openings you'll want to hear about!
The Veterans Voice presented by USAA is a service of Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center, produced in the OPTUM Podcast Studio, distributed via the Medicare Mentors Veterans Voice Podcast Channel, powered by Technology Partner, Colorado Computer Support and made possible in part by Supporting Partner, The WireNut Home Services.
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Wreaths Across America Day is December 17. A day Wreaths Across America's Joe Reagan will tell you is for remembering, showing gratitude and turning out to help lay wreaths on the graves of the many who gave their all. In this podcast, Joe shares the Wreaths story, tells a couple of his own and has an ask of you. As you'll learn, your sponsorship of wreaths will have a profound impact.
Sponsor Wreaths HereEnter: "Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center (CO0243P) | 170567"if you'd like a portion of your sponsorship dollars to support our mission.
Veterans Voice on Wreaths Across America Radio
Thursdays 10:00 A.M. Eastern; Saturdays 8:00 A.M. Eastern; Sundays 6:00 P.M. Eastern
Stream Live Here
The Veterans Voice presented by USAA is a service of Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center, produced in the OPTUM Podcast Studio, distributed via the Medicare Mentors Veterans Voice Podcast Channel, powered by Technology Partner, Colorado Computer Support and made possible in part by Supporting Partner, The WireNut Home Services.
Sunday Nov 20, 2022
Sunday Nov 20, 2022
We're very excited to announce that The Veterans Voice is soon to launch in Pueblo! The program will begin airing December 3rd on KTSC 89.5 The Revolution based at Colorado State University, Pueblo. In this podcast, we introduce you to Veterans Voice Pueblo host, Cassime Joseph. Cassime is an Army veteran, college student, photo journalist, blogger, podcaster, radio host, KTSC radio operations manager and president of the CSU Pueblo chapter of the Student Veterans of America.
Veterans Voice Pueblo will air Fridays at 9:00 a.m. and is aimed at giving veterans a voice and getting the word out about the services provided for veterans and military connected families available at Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center Pueblo, CSU Pueblo and other agencies in the Pueblo community.
Listen Live Fridays at 9:00 A.M.
Request Mt. Carmel Pueblo Services: (719) 309-4719Open: 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Monday-FridayWalk-In services at St. Mary-Corwin Hospital | Medical Arts Building1925 E. Orman Ave., Suite 156 Pueblo, CO 81004
Cassime Joseph | Operations Manager | KTSC 89.5 FMPresident, Student Veterans of America CSU Pueblo Chapter
The Veterans Voice presented by USAA is a service of Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center, produced in the OPTUM Podcast Studio, distributed via the Medicare Mentors Veterans Voice Podcast Channel, powered by Technology Partner, Colorado Computer Support and made possible in part by Supporting Partner, The WireNut Home Services.
Friday Nov 18, 2022
Friday Nov 18, 2022
Founded in 1984, the Empty Stocking Fund is fueling the charitable work of 20 agencies around the Pikes Peak Region that in turn impact more than 350,000 lives every year. In this podcast, executive director of the Gazette Charities Foundation, Deb Mahan, explains how every dollar you give provides $1.50 in assistance and that no donation is too small.
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
November is National Veterans and Military Families Appreciation Month. In this podcast, Phil Long Dealership's Executive Vice President and Partner, Kevin Shaughnessy, explains what's behind the company's veteran-friendly culture and why they're making a donation of up to $100,000 to Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center.
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
Mt. Carmel's Alice Miles and Jacqie Warmbir are among many supporting efforts to provide family and behavioral health services at an especially challenging time of year for military connected families and veterans. In this podcast, how best to engage when you need help and a look at how getting you what you need works. Also, if you don't need help but can give it, your donations are encouraged and very welcome!
Request Mt. Carmel Services
Colorado Springs: (719) 772-7000 | Walk-In: 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Monday-Friday
Pueblo: (719) 309-4719 | Walk-In: 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Monday-Friday
Become a Donor
CRISIS INTERVENTION RESOURCES
Diversus Health Lighthouse Walk-in Crisis Center
Call: 844-493-TALK (8255)
Text: TALK to 38255
Walk-in: 115 South Parkside Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80910
Veteran’s Suicide Hotline1-800-273-8255 then press 1, or, text 838255
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline800-273-8255
Trans Lifeline877-565-8860
Next Chapterwww.nextchapterco.org888-719-8387
The Objective Zero App (veterans talk to veterans)https://www.objectivezero.org/app
PFC Floyd K. Lindstrom Outpatient Clinic Colorado Springs719-327-5660
3141 Centennial BoulevardColorado Springs, CO 80907
Non-Emergency Colorado Springs Police Number719-444-7000
El Paso County Sheriff719-520-7100
The Veterans Voice presented by USAA is a service of Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center, produced in the OPTUM Podcast Studio, distributed via the Medicare Mentors Veterans Voice Podcast Channel, powered by Technology Partner, Colorado Computer Support and made possible in part by Supporting Partner, The WireNut Home Services.
Monday Nov 14, 2022
Monday Nov 14, 2022
Keith Simon | KCME Operations Director Weekday Afternoon Host, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
KCME's Keith Simon visited with The Hennessy 6's (TH6) Sean Hennessy on the partnership between Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center and TH6 in support of One Simple Voice. A November 17, jazz concert will feature The Hennessy 6 performing a "Sacred Spiritual Journey of Jazz" at City Auditorium featuring all original arrangements.
Tickets are $25 and Available Here
Sean Schafer Hennessy | The Hennessy 6