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By Kelli Wynn, Staff Writer Updated 1:24 PM Tuesday, April 6, 2010

DAYTON — U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki will visit the Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 4100 W. Third St., on Wednesday, April 7 to help promote the center’s new Volunteers of America Veterans Resource Center.

The newly renovated center is designed to provide transitional housing, along with employment and placement services for homeless veterans.

There will be a ribbon cutting ceremony at 1 p.m. in front of Building 400, which will be where the new resources center will be located.

This is the Dayton VA Medical Center’s 23rd Anniversary of providing care to homeless veterans, Donna Simmons, Public Affairs Officer,said Tuesday, April 6.

The medical center implemented two national Veterans Affairs programs — Healthcare for Homeless Veterans and Domiciliary Care for Homeless Veterans — in 1987, Simmons said.

Besides Shinseki, the public will hear from Guy Richardson, director of the medical center, and Dennis Kresak, president and CEO of Volunteers of America of Greater Ohio.

Stay with DaytonDailyNews.com for more on this event.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2414 or kwynn@DaytonDailyNews.com.

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