Author: Be Connected

More than a quarter of Arizona veterans and their families live in rural communities. Be Connected is partnering around the state to strengthen access to care and connection to resources for our veteran community. Many veterans do not have access to reliable transportation and may lack the technology or budget needed to use popular rideshare services, creating a barrier for ...

COVID-19 swept through our country with a vengeance, taking the lives and stealing the livelihoods of many Arizonans. To help ease some of the burden caused by the pandemic, the Arizona Coalition for Military Families and Be Connected secured grant funding from the Bob Woodward Foundation, in partnership with the National Football League, to provide immediate relief to Arizona’s veterans ...

October 2021 Creating opportunities and providing specialized support to women veterans and minority veterans is the goal of our new program called Be Connected Career Navigation Plus. We held a launch event for this initiative on September 30 to share the benefits available to participants.  If you or someone you know is a woman veteran or minority veteran, we invite ...

October 2021 October 26 is National Day of the Deployed – our opportunity to honor the men and women deployed in service to our great nation. To ensure that we’re meeting the needs of veterans who have been deployed, and the families preparing for and reuniting after deployment, we encourage you to take the Arizona Veteran Survey. We want to ...

Many of us take for granted that when we go to the faucet in the kitchen, there will be clean, cool, safe drinking water. For some families in rural, northern Arizona, there is no water on tap in the home. Fetching clean water for drinking, cooking and hygiene is a daily task that often involves driving to a water source, ...

If you live in the West Valley, you know that getting to downtown – these days – can take an hour or more. The growth in our state has fueled the economy, but it also creates heavy traffic on our roadways. Thanks to a new partnership between the Arizona Coalition for Military Families (ACMF), Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services, Northern ...