VSEA’s Week In Action Newsletter: February 10, 2017

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VSEA’s 2010 Proposal To Build A Large, Stand-Alone Mental Health Care Facility Got Lip Service But Not Much More

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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Open Enrollment For The New VSEA Discounted Vision Benefit Has Arrived!

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

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