Wyoming County Veterans’ Services: Dwyer Peer Programme, Free Haircuts, Art Therapy and the Annual Picnic

The Dwyer programme. The Human Services Committee takes a "Dwyer Report" from Veterans Services at each monthly meeting, and the Board's budget carries a "Mental Health-Dwyer Wyoming" line. The Public Health Committee on July 1, 2026 approved a contract "for a Chicken BBQ for the Dwyer Picnic on 8/29 in an amount not to exceed $3,600.00"; the Human Services minutes of July 28, 2026 put the annual picnic on "August 29, 2026 @ Pike Banquet Center (Pike Fire Hall) at noon" (the August 25 minutes print September 29 and "290 RSVP's to date"; ask the office). Free haircuts. The office reports free haircuts for veterans at each Human Services meeting: "Next Wednesday, 02/04/26 at 10 AM" (January 27, 2026); "March 4th in the Basement of the Ag. Center" (February 24, 2026); "Ag Center Learning Center, May 6, 2026 at 10AM" (April 28, 2026); "Next event will be November 4th" (October 27, 2026) - the first Wednesday of the month, at the Ag Center, 36 Center St., Warsaw. Art therapy. The Board's Resolution 26-156 of March 10, 2026 amended the contract with the Arts Council for Wyoming County "to provide for a Veterans Art Therapy program under the Regional Opioid Settlement Funds RFA proposal ... in an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00); effective April 1, 2025 through December 31, 2026"; the Planning Committee's April 1, 2026 minutes list "B.R.A.V.E." and "Veterans Healing in Color", and Human Services reviewed the B.R.A.V.E. art event in March and April 2026. Health fair and the council. The Veterans' Health Fair of March 29, 2026 drew "over 50 in attendance". The Joint Veterans Council reports its gas cards to the committee (October 27, 2026).