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Image Veterans Memorial Gold Star Healing and Peace Garden Featuring Board Chair Susan P. Byrnes R.N.
About The
York County Veterans Outreach
York County Veterans Outreach assists veterans and their families, to identify and access resources, services, and programs to meet their short- and long-term goals.
"This nation will remain the land of the free
only so long as it is the home of the brave."
- Elmer Davis
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How York County Serves Our 25,000 Veterans
25,000 Veterans call York County home, some born and raised here while many others have relocated due to York County’s reputation for outstanding Veteran support and services. The question is, how did this happen and how can we band together to further support our Hometown Heroes?
In 2013, two of York County’s outstanding leaders, retired President Commissioner Susan Byrnes (founder of the Susan Byrnes Health Education Center and President of the Veterans Memorial Gold Star Healing and Peace Garden) and the Honorable Judge T. Trebilcock (Ret. US Army Reserves who presided over the Veterans Wellness Court) co-founded the York County Veterans Outreach to raise funds for York County Veterans and their families. Pulling together a board of directors of the leaders of York County’s nonprofit sector, they created two major fundraising events each year to support York County’s Veteran nonprofits and the Veterans Fund; a private fund of monies utilized by York County’s Veterans Affairs to meet the immediate needs of mortgage, utility, food insecurity and other items not as readily available due to the red tape of bureaucracy.
Raised from last year’s Annual Custom Car and Bike Show and Golf Invitational, the YCVO has allocated a $50,000 grant for the Veterans Fund and another $50,000 for York County’s Veteran nonprofits. Year to date, our donations have supported mental health with Catfish for Heroes and Veterans Lake Fishing, entire homes furnished through the Pennsylvania Furniture Mission, Prodigy Spectrum’s newest Veteran personal care home, shelter at LifePath Christian Ministries, PTSD treatments through For the Love of a Veteran and Agricultural Education at Glenn Hope Care Farm.
If you wish to support your hometown heroes along with us, please consider donating and/or volunteering. You can learn more about the YCVO at www.yocoveteransoutreach.org. You can reach out to our administrator directly at
A Message from Co-Founder & Board Chair, Susan P. Byrnes R.N.
Video Created by Jack Herrington, Age 14
While Attending Dallastown Middle School
YCVO 2025 Board of Directors
(Left to Right, Top to Bottom)
Kevin Smyers (ex officio and Director of York County Department of Veterans Affairs),
Ret. Brig. Gen. Gerald Otterbein, Gary Owen, Chick Renn, Kristy Bixler (Vice Chair),
Mary Migala (Administrator), Susan P. Byrnes R.N. (Co-Founder & Board Chair), Kathreen M. Sibol,
Jen Ormond, Sherry Decker
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Not Pictured
Chris Distefano (Treasurer), Tyler Chronister (Secretary), Kevin Eck, Gary LaTulippe (Member-At-Large), Courtney Buechler
Since inception,
we have supported:
Image courtesy of Leg Up Farm.
Image Courtesy of Leg Up Farm