Press conference and ribbon-cutting ceremony: New Minneapolis-St …
Source: PR Newswire (press release) (Original Article)
Speakers include U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs James B. Peake, the
First Lady of Minnesota Mary Pawlenty, TriWest Healthcare Alliance CEO
David J. McIntyre, Jr., Paralyzed Veterans of America Deputy Executive
Director Maurice L. Jordan and paralyzed veterans.
WASHINGTON, April 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following release
is being issued by Paralyzed Veterans of America:
Friday, April 18, 2008, at 9:30 a.m.
Paralyzed Veterans of America Vocational Rehabilitation
and Counseling Center
Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building
1 Federal Drive, Auditorium G-100
St. Paul, MN 55111
The new Paralyzed Veterans of America Vocational Rehabilitation and
Counseling Center, based at Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in St.
Paul, will empower paralyzed veterans with the important resources, skills
and tools they need to reintegrate into the job market while matching them
with interested businesses and organizations with vacant positions. The
Center, the second of its kind, is being established through an innovative
public-private partnership between Paralyzed Veterans, TriWest Healthcare
Alliance, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
At the press conference, you will hear from a paralyzed veteran who
will be one of the center’s first clients and from Raymond Kenney (U.S.
Marine Corp, Ret.) who “graduated” from Paralyzed Veterans of America’s
first Vocational Rehabilitation Center in Richmond, Virginia. Speakers
include the U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs James B. Peake, the First
Lady of Minnesota Mary Pawlenty, TriWest Healthcare Alliance CEO Dave
McIntyre, and Paralyzed Veterans of America Deputy Executive Director
Maurice L. Jordan.
Notes to editor:
Founded in 1946, Paralyzed Veterans of America (Paralyzed Veterans) is
the only congressionally chartered veterans service organization dedicated
solely for the benefit and representation of individuals with spinal cord
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