{"id":20898,"date":"2021-03-05T16:34:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T16:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/03\/05\/minority-veterans-groups-hope-new-leadership-promises-mean-better-results-for-all-vets\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:51:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:51:43","slug":"minority-veterans-groups-hope-new-leadership-promises-mean-better-results-for-all-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/veterans\/2021\/03\/05\/minority-veterans-groups-hope-new-leadership-promises-mean-better-results-for-all-vets\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority veterans groups hope new leadership promises mean better results for all vets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Multiple times in recent months, Democratic leaders have promised to invite more veterans from minority and underserved groups to the table when it comes to policy discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, they provided the chairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, during a joint hearing by the <a href=\"https:\/\/veterans.house.gov\/events\/hearings\/joint-house-and-senate-vso-legislative-presentation\" target=_blank>House and Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs committees<\/a>, leaders from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minorityvets.org\/\" target=_blank>Minority Veterans of America<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nchv.org\/\" target=_blank>National Coalition for Homeless Veterans <\/a>sat for the first time among organizations invited each year to give their views on current Veterans Affairs policies and shortfalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later this month, the National Congress of American Indians and National Association for Black Veterans will also make their first appearance at the advocates\u2019 legislative presentation panels.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/02\/23\/va-secretary-promises-diverse-leadership-team-but-cant-say-when-theyll-be-in-place\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP21027792855429.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">VA secretary promises diverse leadership team, but can\u2019t say when they\u2019ll be in place<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Denis McDonough said that finding the right leaders for the department is among his first priorities in office.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The public recognition is normally reserved for older and more prominent groups. Officials from Disabled American Veterans and Student Veterans of America also testified the same day. Veterans of Foreign Wars leaders will testify at the March 18 event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But White House officials and new Veterans Affairs leaders in recent weeks have repeatedly vowed to make federal veterans programs \u201cmore inclusive\u201d in public comments on their department reform plans. And congressional Democrats said they\u2019ll help ensure that happens, with a closer look at the faces and voices they have advising their work to ensure the entire veterans\u2019 community is represented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cInviting groups that specifically advocate for minority and underserved veterans is a crucial first step toward our goal to create a more welcoming VA,\u201d House committee Chairman Mark Takano, D-Calif., said at the start of Wednesday\u2019s event. \u201cWe plan to promote the inclusion of more diverse veterans voices beyond this hearing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much of the celebration of the veterans service organizations\u2019 testimony was muted this year, since the pandemic forced the event online. Typically groups pack hearing rooms with hundreds of members, applauding loudly as lawmakers praise organization leaders and call out visitors from their own states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even without that pomp, however, officials at Minority Veterans of America hailed the moves as an exciting and noteworthy first step \u2014 but only a first step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was powerful to be able to represent the communities we do in that kind of forum,\u201d said Lindsay Church, executive director and co-founder of MVA. \u201cNow we have to make sure this opens the door to others, because no one group has all the answers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MVA was founded just four years ago, with a goal of highlighting the challenges facing \u201cveterans of color, women, LGBTQ veterans, and non-religious minorities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, Church highlighted several of the group\u2019s legislative priorities for the year: increasing job training and entrepreneurship opportunities for minority veterans, improving support programs for military sexual trauma victims, ensuring protections for transgender veterans and ensuring VA\u2019s coronavirus response helps as many veterans as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Church said the goal isn\u2019t to divide the veterans community into different categories, but to instead ensure that broad solutions to challenges don\u2019t overlook some smaller segments of the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI urge the committees to consider a mindset shift and to begin examining existing and potential systems and frameworks through a lens that centers and prioritizes the minority veteran,\u201d Church said during Wednesday\u2019s testimony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have found that where a system is designed to serve the most marginalized, it will innately serve those that experience more privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Related, Takano this week also unveiled legislation to mandate a commission on LGBTQ servicemembers and veterans, to \u201cconduct an investigation into the historic and ongoing impacts of discriminatory military policies and practices\u201d on those individuals. 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