Partnering Together to Provide Hope and Help for Justice Involved Veterans April 3, 2014 Presented by: The

Middle Atlantic States Correctional Association and The United States Department of Veterans Affairs Hosted by: Community Renewal Team 555 Windsor Street Hartford, CT 06120 8:00 to 9:00am - Registration/Breakfast 9:00 - Posting of Colors by Connecticut DOC Honor Guard and Pledge of Allegiance 9:05 to 9:15 - Welcomes - Henry Alexander , MASCA President Emeritus; Gerald Culliton, Director Veterans Administration Connecticut Healthcare Systems; Lena Rodriguez, President & CEO of Community Renewal Team 9:15 - The Sate of Veterans in Connecticut Connecticut Commissioner of Veterans Affairs Linda Schwartz 9:45 - The State of Veterans in Correctional Setting in Connecticut Connecticut Commissioner of Corrections James Dzurenda 10:15 - Break 10:30 The State of Veterans on Probation Supervision - Connecticut Judicial Branch Court Support Services Division Executive Director Steven Grant 10:45 - Basic Veterans Administration Information - Definition of who is a veteran, eligibility, ineligibility, how to refer eligible vets, where to send ineligible vets speaker - John Chiechi, MSW, VA CT Errera Center; VA outreach, services available speaker - Preston Maynard, MSW, Director Homeless Services, VA CT 11:30 - Veterans Panel George Moore, CPS; Melvin Mack 12:00 Lunch provided by MASCA 12:45 - Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Services VA Speakers Lou Trevisan, MD and Suicide Prevention Specialist Maureen Pasko CT DMHAS Speaker - Chris Burke, LCSW, LADC, Team Leader - VDTRP 1:15 - Reentry Breakout Sessions Breakout 1 - Collaboration in Connecticut for Successful Re-entry for Veterans Panel CT DOC - Institutions - Tomest Maskell and Patricia Kupec, Correctional Counselor Supervisors CT DOC - Parole speaker TBD CT Court Services - Probation Robert Griffin, Veterans Home Community Probation Officer VA - outreach and reentry - Jessica Marshall, VJO Specialist; Patrick Hayes, VJO Peer Specialist CT Veterans Home Maria Cheney, Director Residential Programs & Services; Thomas Stefanko, Director Office of Advocacy & Assistance Q and A Breakout 2 - Reentry in New York State Panel Bill Payne formerly Rensselaer County Reentry Task Force Jonathan Pollack - Albany Veterans Administration 2:15 - Break

2:30 - Connecticut Veterans Legal Center - Margaret Middleton, Executive Director and Co-Founder 3:00 - Homelessness, Housing, and Employment Issues for Veterans - speakers - Kyle McEvilly, National Coalition for Homeless Veterans; John Sullivan, MSW; Debra Minzy, MSW; and Gabriel Zucker, Deputy Director of the CT Veterans Heroes Project 4:00 - Adjourn