See you there!
Come out for a free consult with our VA and TVC certified VSOs to optimize your veteran benefits!
If you had ever wondered if you are taking full advantage of your veteran benefits, had questions on applications, VA rating reviews or even on benefits that we may know of, come out to see us:
Friday
September 2nd, 2022 - 10am-1pm
Finnigan Park Community Center
4900 Providence Street, Houston, Texas 77020
Attending Veteran Service Officers (VSO):
Miguel Rodriguez
Veteran Service Officer Supervisor
Houston native Miguel Rodriguez served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2008 to 2012 as a Legal/Administration Specialist. After his honorable discharge, he was accepted at the University of Houston where he stayed active with veteran organizations. Miguel joined the Wounded Warrior Project, Lone Star Veterans Association, UH Downtown Student Veteran Organization, and graduated Cum Laude with a Criminal Justice Major and a Communications Minor in 2015.
Miguel initially joined the Harris County team with the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, but soon joined the Harris County Community Services Department as a Veteran Program Eligibility Specialist (Case Manager) in 2015. Miguel was transferred to the Veteran Services Office, and was promoted to a Veteran Service Officer by the Commissioners Court in 2018.
With hundreds of veterans served over the years, Miguel is one of our most experienced veteran service officers. While he specializes in Disability Compensation, Pension, and appeal cases, he has experience in almost every field of veteran services and the Harris County network. in 2019, Miguel was awarded the Legion of Honor Award by the Chapel of Four Chaplains, and also recognized by the Veterans County Service Officer Association of Texas for his hard work and dedication to the Veteran Community.
Dominique Brewer
Veteran Service Officer
Dominique is a native Texan who served as a U.S. Air Force Security Forces/Military Police specialist. After 8 years of service, and deployment to Afghanistan under Operation Enduring Freedom, she was honorably discharged in 2012
During her time in the Inactive Ready Reserve (IRR), she continued to serve as a civilian under the Department of the Army and the Department of Defense in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kuwait in support of the U.S. troops on numerous operating bases throughout the Middle East.
In 2015, Dominique settled in Harris County, Texas and attended college at Lone Star College where she became a Veteran Mentor. She was also accepted to University of Houston – Downtown Alumni received a Bachelor’s in Interdisciplinary Studies
Dominique served the veteran community as a Certifying Official for Veterans Education benefits at Lone Star College. She also assisted Veterans and their families entitled to federal or state education benefits through the Department of the VA official all while attending school.
Her passion to serve veterans further show in her memberships as:
· Wounded Warrior Alumni
· UHD alumni
· Student Veterans Association (Lone star College and UHD)
· Combined Arms Institute
· Women’s Veterans Organizations
Kelly Haese
Veteran Services Officer
With nearly 20 years of experience dealing with Veteran-related care, documents, claims and benefits, Kelly is one of our accredited and experienced Veteran Services Officers. As a Houston and Harris County Native, she also knows our unique geographical challenges and solutions.
Kelly began working for Harris County Precinct 2 Veterans Services in, 2004 as a liaison between veterans and the VA Medical Center. Subsequently, her success earned her a promotion and expanded her expertise with veterans, surviving spouses, and dependents on Pension benefits and Burial benefits.
As an accredited VSO, Kelly’s expertise helps veterans in the greater Harris County area with their disability claims and appeals, along with her other expertise from the past years.
Lakethia Wilson
Veterans Case Manager
Lakethia has more than 10 years of case management experience serving Veterans in Lead Case Management roles and Supervisory Positions. She served as a Petroleum Specialist in the U.S. Army from 2008-2011. After her honorable discharge, Lakethia pushed herself to attain a BS in Psychology at the University of Washington, and began her journey to work with her fellow veterans.
For more the past decade, Lakethia has gained a vast knowledge of intensive case management, housing programs for homeless Veterans, motivational interviewing, group therapy, and veteran healthcare programs. She went on with continued training to attain her SOARS certification (to help homeless Veterans with Social Security Benefits), forty additional educational hours of case management at Seattle College, and she was also certified HQS (Housing Quality Specialist) to conduct HUD housing inspections for all Chronic Homeless individuals on any HUD funding programs.
As the founder and CEO of the Tacoma based non-profit, Renewed Hope Services, Lakethia focused on helping veterans with basic need items such as food, toiletries, clothing, and referrals for healthcare services in the community. She has participated in Point in Time Count outreach in Tacoma, WA finding homeless veterans that needed help with various issues and connected them to housing first programs and healthcare. Under Lakethia’s leadership, Renewed Hope Services even collaborated with Pierce County where she served on Pierce County’s Youth Shelter Board to help fund Pierce County’s first youth shelter in 2017.
Since Lakethia relocated to the Houston area, her passion for helping Veterans continued under Women’s Veterans Services Permeant Supportive Housing as a Veteran Case Manager.
Lakethia brings the Harris County veteran far more than a decade of experience as a Veterans Coordinator. With her expertise in of homelessness, housing, employment, disability benefits, and mental health, Lakethia is still expanding her knowledge in mental health by pursuing her master’s degree in Social Work at Walden University with a simple goal: to help as many Veterans succeed and thrive in life.