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Live Webinar for Veterans: VA Benefits and Services

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Join this important 1.5-hour webinar to learn about MS care in VA. The webinare will discuss:

  • VA health care service lines and how VA health care providers collaborate with Veterans to optimize benefits and quality of life,
  • VA programs, grants, and opportunities for Veterans and their care partners,
  • Strategies for communicating with your health care providers, and the importance of advocating for your needs and interests, and 
  • Resources to help guide Veterans through VA choices.

Date: Wednesday, March 25th, 2026

Time: 2 pm ET, 1 pm CT, 12 pm MT, 11 am PT

Topic: Hot Topics: VA Benefits and Services (flyer) 

Speakers: Alicia Sloan, MPH, MSW, LICSW and Bethany Ferguson, LCSW-C

Audience: Veterans, Caregivers and Family Members of Veterans with MS

Modality: Virtual on Microsoft Teams

How to join on the day and time of the webinar.

Video: Click the following link on the day of the program (Meeting ID: 237 500 150 778 07).
     - Your camera should be turned off.
     - Make sure the "computer audio" circle is checked.
     - Make sure the sound bar is turned up all the way.
     - Click the button "Join now".

Phone: Call 1-872-701-0185 and enter Phone Conference ID 795 449 148#.
     - Do not use video and phone, you will get feedback.

Troubleshooting: If the sound on your computer is not working, try the following.
     - Click the following link on the day of the program (Meeting ID: 259 351 854 507).
     - Your camera should be turned off.
     - Make sure the "phone audio" circle is checked.
     - Click the button "Join now".
     - Enter your phone number and the system will call you.
     - You can now view the webinar and listen on your phone.

If you have questions, please contact MSCentersofExcellence@va.gov.

alicia Sloan
Alicia Sloan is a Senior Social Worker in the Rehabilitation Care Services MS Clinics at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle and American Lake sites. She has worked with the MS Center of Excellence-West since 2004. She has a passion for working with caregivers of Veterans with MS and other chronic illnesses. She is a graduate of Tulane University Schools of Social Work and Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, LA.




Bethany Ferfuson
Bethany Ferguson is a Clinical Social Worker and Certified Case Manager based at the Baltimore VA Medical Center. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She is currently the MS Center of Excellence-East Regional Social Worker and Baltimore VA Spinal Cord Injury and Disease Clinic Coordinator.

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