Veterans Fair: May 25, 2024
Circles of Healing, Service & Growth
Veterans Spark Your Creativity & Wonder!
Join us for an innovative Veterans Fair for a refreshing approach to creating community. The 5 Fairs under 1 Tent offers a festive and exhilarating opportunity to engage with your fellow Veterans, national, state, and local leaders and statewide organizations.
A Festive Celebration of Community starts @ 11:00am until 5:00pm
Explore the latest strategies for unlocking your full potential, participate in impactful service projects, and discover the latest innovations in health and wellness. This event promises exciting insights, shared camaraderie, and a chance to make a genuine impact. Whether you're a Veteran in search of meaning, passionate about giving back through service, or ready to embark on a personal growth journey, our event holds something truly exceptional for you. Don't miss this unique chance to be a part of a community that truly understands you – your fellow Veterans.
National Museum of Military Vehicles
To honor the service and sacrifice of our veterans and their families. To educate next generations on the history of American freedom. To preserve and share historic military vehicles.
Wyoming Veterans Commission
The Wyoming Veterans Commission’s mission is to develop, enhance, and promote programs, services, and benefits for Wyoming veterans and their families through outreach, education, communication, and legislation. We strive to improve the quality of life of every Wyoming veteran.
Mentor Agility
Your trauma-informed coaching experts, we offer credentialed training by International Coaching Federation & National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching. Committed to providing the highest standards in training, story isat the center of everything we do, our trauma-informed coaching approach is novel and effective.
Entertainment & Educational
AARP
AARP's Mission is to Empower Veterans, Military, and their Families to navigate the complexities of life's transitions by delivering tangible, actionable value; and providing authentic and unwavering commitment to those who have served our country.
Wyoming State Parks & Historic Sites
A quality of life agency, the Wyoming Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources provides the state's citizens and visitors a variety of opportunities to enjoy our arts, parks and history. Wyoming's state parks, historic sites and state trails program offer abundant recreational and educational opportunities.
Entertainment & History
Watch LIVE vintage tanks demonstration or take a ride on historic military vehicles. They will be running throughout the Immersive Veterans Fair on May 25, 2024
Veterans Talking To Veterans
Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon and the Wyoming Veterans Commission are bringing FREE Certified VTTV Coaching groups to your community. Certified VTTV Coaches are Veterans or family members from your community. Join an ancient process that invokes curiosity, wonder, and camaraderie or play The Way, Refining Your Health, Wealth and Wisdom to peak your potential.
Cent$ible Nutrition Program
The Cent$ible Nutrition Program (CNP) is a statewide program serving people with limited resources through nutrition education and local partnerships that help make the healthy choice the easy choice.
Wyoming State Parks
Booth Activities
- Apply for/receive your Wyoming Resident Disabled Veteran's Lifetime Pass (covers all Day Use and Camping fees!)
- Meet Jupiter: The Wyoming Game and Fish Great Horned Owl Ambassador!
- Meet our Pathfinders and get familiar with the Wonder Map - your Wyoming State Parks Outdoor Recreation Concierge - and plan your ideal Wyoming
- Outdoor Adventure!
Check out our Winter Camping Camp Basics: Winter tent and stove exhibit - Stay curious and get busy with engaging kids activities rooted in outdoor recreation and stewardship
- Take a Story Quest Walk
Department of Corrections
The mission of the Wyoming Department of Corrections is to contribute to public safety by exercising reasonable, safe, secure and humane management , while actively providing offenders opportunities to become law abiding citizens. We do this through workforce excellence, role modeling, teamwork and successful and collaborative reentry efforts. The WDOC believes our veteran staff are well suited for work in corrections because of their sense of service and commitment, discipline and integrity. Regarding our incarcerated veteran population, we recognize that the transition from service member to inmate often stems from veterans having difficulty in their transition from military to civilian life. We do not excuse or justify the criminal behavior of our incarcerated veterans. We do, however, recognize their unique experiences and challenges and respect and appreciate their service to our country. Because of the generosity of the Wyoming Military Department and the Veterans Talking to Veterans Program, we have been able to bring Veterans Talking to Veterans into the prison environment with much success.
Health Fair
Sheridan VA Health Care System
The Sheridan VA Health Care System serves Veterans across three-quarters of Wyoming, with a medical center in Sheridan and clinics in Afton, Casper, Cody, Evanston, Gillette, Riverton, Rock Springs and Worland. The system provides a complete spectrum of mental health services, primary care, women’s health care services, pharmacy services, rehabilitative therapies and other specialty services.
Wyoming Health Fairs
We provide you with health care services at Cheyenne VA Medical Center and at 8 outpatient clinics in the tri-state area of southeastern Wyoming, northeastern Colorado, and southwestern Nebraska. We also offer long term care at The Old Glory community living center (nursing home) at our medical center. To learn more about services we offer at each location, visit our Cheyenne VAMC health care page. The Cheyenne Healthcare System is part of Veterans Integrated Service Network 19 (VISN 19), which operates 8 healthcare systems across 10 states. VISN 19, also called VA Rocky Mountain Network, spans 540,000 square miles and includes medical centers in Aurora and Grand Junction, Colorado; Fort Harrison, Montana; Cheyenne and Sheridan, Wyoming; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Oklahoma City and Muskogee, Oklahoma; and 123 other health care sites
PROSPER Together
PROSPER Together is a small veteran-owned businees that is determined to bend the suicide curve. We are changing the conversation. Suicide is not just a mental health issue—it is a complex social issue, comparable to poverty, homelessness, and crime. Many communities struggle to maintain reductions in suicide rates, while others lack culturally tailored, sustainable solutions. A one-size-fits-all approach does not work. Sustainable suicide prevention requires dynamic, evidence-based models that foster connectedness, resilience, and trust. By moving beyond reactive hospitalization to patient-centered, strength-based strategies derived from the latest suicidology research, we can reduce long-term suicide risks, empower individuals, and create thriving communities.
The Marcus Institute for Brain Health (MIBH) at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is a clinical care and research institute for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and psychological health (PH) conditions such as post-traumatic stress (PTS), anxiety and depression. The mission of MIBH is to provide in-depth interdisciplinary care to military Veterans, first responders, and active service members who are having ongoing symptoms following a mild to moderate TBI and/or psychological symptoms.
Measuring and treating TBIs requires precision medicine and targeted individualized care by an interdisciplinary team. MIBH offers evaluations and treatment recommendations for these symptoms through an integrated (interconnected, organized) approach.
NC Suicide Prevention Taskforce/Neverforgotten77
The Natrona County Suicide Prevention Task Force is a collaboration of individuals and organizations focused on reducing suicides and the stigma surrounding suicide by providing awareness, resources, training and support to the community. - To spread hope to those affected by suicide.
Reserve Component Transition Assistance Advisor Program
A Reserve Component Transition Assistance Advisor is your local contact for accessing benefits and health care governed by the secretary of defense and the secretary of veterans affairs. Advisors are available in every state, territory and the District of Columbia to ensure you receive the benefits earned through your military service.
Substance Abuse Mental Health Ombudsman WGC
The Wyoming Guardianship Corp. Is a nonprofit Organization that provides services statewide. Guardianship & Conservatorship, Representative Payee Special Needs Trust , Substance Abuse Mental Health Ombudsman. Ombudsman services are free for anyone
Service Fair
Downrange Warriors
Downrange Warrior’s mission is to prevent suicide by those coping with the adversities of post-traumatic stress of war and law enforcement that wound the Heart, Mind and Soul. To bring trauma healing through: resource contacts, outdoor activities, 1-week interventions, 12-week trauma healing courses, ongoing weekly meetings, dog therapy, horse therapy, weekly ongoing small groups (Veterans Talking To Veterans), honest communication and transparency, Christian brotherhood and sisterhood accessing the healing power of Jesus Christ to attain victory.
Honoring Our Veterans
The mission of Honoring Our Veterans is to improve the quality of life for combat wounded veterans by offering them activities that strengthen their physical, cognitive, emotional and social functioning. Our programs improve the mental and physical health of wounded warriors. We offer a variety of outdoor activities with expert instruction to introduce wounded veterans to a wide variety of outdoor recreational opportunities they can use to promote their healing. One of the most significant factors to successful healing and reintegration is time spent with others who have had the same or similar experience. Many of our wounded veterans are unable to share their traumatic experiences with their spouses and families, for fear that they will not be able to relate. This isolation is detrimental to healing and reintegration. The sharing that occurs when veterans are among their brothers is a major building block in the recovery process. Honoring Our Veterans also provides opportunities that encourage independence. Our programs are unique because of our location in Northwestern Wyoming, home to two National Parks, Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park. Honoring Our Veterans matches these outdoor recreational opportunities with a community of dedicated instructors and guides who donate their time and expertise to help wounded warriors heal.
Overwatch-6
OVERWATCH-6 is a small non-profit organization dedicated to funding stem cell therapy for our Veterans and first responders through outdoor skills and firearms training. When you sign up and attend one of our courses not only are you expanding your firearm skills and capabilities outdoors, but you are also helping improve someone’s quality of life. Those who have chosen to serve have put excessive physical wear and tear on their bodies to the point where many have life-altering injuries and surgeries. Stem cell therapy has been proven to improve the quality of life for those who are eligible without the recovery from a surgery. Help us take care of those who have watched over us.
Restoring Family Links
By reconnecting families separated by crises, helping to rebuild communities devastated by disasters, or working alongside health organizations to eliminate global disease, the International Services of the Red Cross works every day to provide relief.
Disaster Relief Services
We respond to an emergency every 8 minutes.
From small house fires to multi-state natural disasters, the American Red Cross goes wherever we’re needed, so people can have clean water, safe shelter and hot meals when they need them most. Our ERV (Emergency Response Vehicle) is equipped to provide food & supplies to people affected by disasters.
- We respond to an average of about 65,000 disasters every year
- The vast majority of disasters we respond to are home fires
Services to the Armed Forces
The Red Cross helps members of the military, veterans and their families prepare for, cope with, and respond to, the challenges of military service.
- Volunteers provide home comforts and critical services on bases and in military hospitals around the world
- We support military families during deployments and emergencies
- We continue serving our nation’s veterans after their service ends
The Episcopal Church in Wyoming
We are an all-embracing spiritual home for everyone, where people come to love and be loved, to grow in faith and spirit, and explore together the spiritual dimension of life.
Building on our frontier pioneering history, the Episcopal Church in Wyoming is focused on seeing the message of Christ taken to "new frontiers," through an ongoing exploration of spiritual discovery that engages the frontiers of our hearts, minds and communities.
Catholic Charities of Wyoming
The mission of Catholic Charities of Wyoming is to foster community action by calling upon all disciples and people of good will to join in compassionately serving and advocating for persons in need.
Volunteers of American
Northern Rockies
We are one of the largest run nonprofit organization in the Nation. We work with a VA funded grant, SSVF (Support Services for Veteran Families). Our program helps prevent veteran homelessness and works on assisting veterans and their families to maintain future housing stability. Our VOA team has many other veteran based programs such as moral injury, mental health aid, employment aid, healthcare navigation, SOAR assistance and legal assistance. The Volunteers of America is a spiritual-based ministry of service, and has provided essential services to heal the body and spirit.