Author: VSEAUnite

Every year, the VSEA Awards & Scholarship Committee solicits scholarship applications from VSEA members and their spouses, dependents and domestic partners. The 2017 scholarship applications are now available online, and VSEA students who are seeking financial assistance this year in the pursuit of post-secondary educational goals can download one here.

Seven Years Later, The Issues and Concerns Of 2010 Remain Largely Unchanged    

Here are some excerpts from a 2010 VSEA WIA post, titled "Vermont Association For Mental Health Publicly Supports VSEA Plan To Build New State Hospital In Central Vermont."    

"VSEA’s DOC members are telling the union they are concerned the State is adopting an unwritten policy [in 2010] to just warehouse certain mentally ill Vermont offenders in the State’s prison system, where they are being “stabilized but not treated.”

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A few years back, VSEA leaders decided to try something new when they voted to offer members an opportunity to improve their existing dental coverage through enrollment in a supplemental dental program that, since its inception, has benefited hundreds of VSEA members and their dependents. Building on the success of this initial additional benefit offering, your VSEA Board of Trustees is pleased to now introduce a new supplemental eye-care benefit to help VSEA members and their dependents lower out-of-pocket, vision expenses.

> Click here to find information and links about the new supplemental eye-care benefit and how you can enroll.

Thanks

Dave Bellini
VSEA President

VSEA DOC member Steffen Flibotte delivered powerful testimony about the many issues frontline COs encounter when asked to supervise an inmate with severe mental illness. He reminded that these workers have enough on their plates with just supervising the general population. View more photos on VSEA’s Facebook page here.

Dozens of state employees, health care professionals, mental health care professionals, community-based care providers and others braved a snowstorm to come to the State House last night to testify in support of lawmakers strengthening protections for frontline workers who must provide care/oversight to individuals experiencing acute mental-health crises.

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