About
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.
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Supporting Our Hometown Heroes, Together
"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 28,000 Veterans
28,000 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 Pennsylania 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 are receiving more grant applications still this year.
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 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 2024 Board of Directors
(Left to Right, Top to Bottom)
Kevin Smyers (ex officio and Deputy Director of York County Department of Veterans Affairs), Tyler Chronister (YCVO Secretary), Bruce Bartz (Founder Bartz Brigaide), Gary Owen, Kristy Bixler (Vice Chair), Ret. Brig. Gen. Gerald Otterbein, Kevin J. Eck (YCVO Past Chair), William Fallon (Founder of the YORKVET Network), Susan P. Byrnes R.N. (Co-Founder & Board Chair), Kathreen M. Sibol, Gary LaTulippe (Veterans Court)
Not Pictured
Andrew Herrold, Chick Renn & Cassandra Storm (YCVO Administrator)
The YORKVET Network
The YORKVET Network is a group of organizations in York County that support York County veterans and their families. This is a free group to join which meets quarterly and remains in communication between meetings via email to meet the immediate needs and assist the goals of York County Veterans and their families. The group's founder and leader is Bill Fallon, Veteran Specialist for Career Link and a member of the York County Veterans Outreach Board of Directors along with the support of York County Veterans Affairs Director, Terry Gendron.
Image (Left to Right): Terry Gendron, Susan P. Byrnes, La'Velle Howell,
William Fallon, Kathreen M. Sibol and Cassandra Storm
Partners & Affiliates
Image courtesy of Leg Up Farm.
Image Courtesy of Leg Up Farm
Services for Veterans
By Category
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Crisis InterventionPennsylvania Suicide Prevention Coalition Red Cross Emergency Center Veterans Crisis Line
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Health ResourcesAmerican Legion Mental Health Give an Hour Mental Health Lebanon VA Medical Center Red Cross Mental Health U.S. Departments of Veterans Affairs Health Benefits Caron Foundation York VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic717-840-2730 Lebanon VA Medical Center717-272-6621 The Mesothelioma Center
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Housing ResourcesHabitat for Humanity Volunteers of America PA Supportive Services for Veteran Families Harrisburg YWCA - Bill Reed, Director of Veterans Services, 717-234-7931 or wreed@ywcahbg.org
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Job ResourcesPennsylvania Career Link The Veteran Program VR&E Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment York, PA - Veteran Owned Businesses
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RecreationCentral PA Heroes on the Water Mission Continues National Organization Team Red, White & Blue National Organization
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Support ResourcesAmerican Gold Star Mothers FindMyRidePA Gold Star Dads of America Gold Star Garden Got Your 6 National Organization Hometown Heroes ID Program Iraq - Afghanistan Veterans Association Military.com PA 211 Helpline for Services PASOC PA Systems of Care Pennsylvania Wounded Warriors Red Cross Military Family Assistance SOAR Veteran Assistance United Service Organizations VA Judicial Outreach Representative Sarah Primak 717-926-0872 Veterans Helping Hands York County Veteran Thrift Store York County Veterans Treatment Court
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TransportationRabbit Transit Commuter Services of Pennsylvania FindMyRidePA
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Other ResourcesEducation - Student Veterans of America For the Love of a Veteran, Inc. GI Bill Education and Training Gold Star Dads of America Home Town Heroes Veteran ID Program Military Onesource PASOC PA System of Care Prospect Hill Court of Valor Veterans Helping Hands Estate Services