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VA Multiple Year Contract Award to Ventura

October 15, 2009

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded a new, multiple-year contract to The Ventura Group, Inc. The contract originated from the Veterans Business Administration's (VBA) Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Service (VR&E) Remote Counseling Pilot Project. The project will implement and document a two-year pilot program focusing on improving veterans' access to mental-health counseling, and also improving the overall counseling experience utilizing Video Conferencing Technology. This state-of-the-art technology will allow the VA to make services more accessible to all veterans, especially those in remote locations, while retaining the private, personal counseling experience that face-to-face sessions offer. This pilot project will run for a period of two years and be conducted in four of the principal VBA operating regions. Ventura's project objectives will be to help the VBA select the Video Tele-Conferencing technology, work through Security Certification and Accreditation; monitor the usage and customer satisfaction of the designated technology, provide training for the VA counselors and veterans; and evaluate and recommend viable video tele-conferencing technology for use in the second iteration of the pilot program and beyond. The communications technology will be selected from the two predominant video conferencing manufactures; Polycom and Tandberg. This award reflects the strong association Ventura has with the VA and the larger veterans' community at a large. Ventura is a service disabled veteran owner company.