Advance Care Planning & Veteran Benefits Workshop

Event Overview :

* Due to the sensitive nature of this topic NO CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 18 PERMITTED TO ATTEND*

DINNER PROVIDED

A practical, empowering workshop for veterans and families to plan ahead, protect medical wishes, and understand VA benefits so decisions are clear when emotions are overwhelming.

End-of-life conversations are often avoided because they feel uncomfortable or difficult to start. Planning ahead isn’t about fear, it’s about clarity, dignity, and protecting the people you love.

This educational workshop helps veterans, spouses, and families make informed decisions about future medical care, advance directives, funeral and cemetery benefits, and VA survivor benefits. Using real-life scenarios and plain language, we’ll break down it systematically and help you know how to put the right plans in place before they’re needed.

You’ve spent a lifetime making thoughtful decisions for others. This workshop helps ensure your voice, values, and choices are honored, now and in the future.

Topics Covered:

• Advance Care Planning (ACP): Ensuring your health care wishes are known and honored
• Advanced Medical Directives: Living wills, health care surrogates, and DNRs - what they mean and how they work
• Veteran Funeral & Cemetery Benefits: Eligibility, documentation, and planning ahead
• VA Survivor Benefits: Understanding Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) and other survivor benefits

What You’ll Walk Away With:

• Confidence that your medical and end-of-life wishes are clearly documented
• Peace of mind knowing your family won’t be left guessing or struggling
• A clearer understanding of earned VA benefits and how to protect them
• Practical next steps you can take now, no matter your age or health status

Your experiences have shaped your values. This session helps ensure those values guide your care and protect your family when it matters most.

Who Should Attend:

Veterans, spouses, caregivers, and family members seeking clarity, confidence, and peace of mind around medical decisions and earned veteran benefits.

Thank you Blunt & Curry Funeral Home & Empath Health for providing raffle items. Must be present to win $50 gift cards from Amazon and other amazing gifts.

About Action Zone

Action Zone helps the military community learn the business of running a business ensuring economic success through entrepreneurship. Action Zone provides the knowledge entrepreneurs need to ideate through their idea and develop their business model canvas, providing them more opportunity for success beyond the startup phase. We equip them with the network, tools, and opportunities needed to launch and grow successful businesses. Action Zone moves them from lifestyle entrepreneurs to successful business owners with programs developed by seasoned entrepreneurs and business owners. If you’re interested in getting involved by sharing your expertise or through sponsorship email us at info@actionzonetampa.com.

About the Sponsor

Blount & Curry Funeral Home at Garden of Memories has served the Tampa, Florida, community since 1937. Tampa is a vibrant and diverse community. Our funeral home and cemetery care for families of many religions, cultures and backgrounds.

Located directly across from Myrtle Hill Memorial Park, Blount & Curry Funeral Home at Garden of Memories provides you even more options when making funeral, cremation, memorialization and burial arrangements.

Matt Reisinger - Coast Guard Veteran.

Matt is a Family Service Counselor at Blount & Curry Garden of Memories/Myrtle Hill Funeral Home. He is committed to ensuring that veterans and their families receive the dignity, honor, and respect they deserve, and he is well versed in the benefits available to veterans at the time of passing. He helped Dignity Memorial create the "To the Frontgate" veteran program. Come learn more.

About Our Program Sponsors & Speakers

CarePlus Health Plans, a Florida-based insurer, which provides comprehensive coverage for hospitalization, medical needs, and prescription drugs, often with extra benefits like dental, vision, and allowances for over-the-counter items, and potentially a Part B premium reduction. The specific offerings, such as standard Medicare Advantage (MA), Dual-Eligible Special Needs Plans (D-SNPs), or Chronic Condition Special Needs Plans (C-SNPs), depend on a person's eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid and their health conditions.

Empath Health - Ashly Sard, Air Force Veteran

Empath Health is uniquely devoted to pioneering all-embracing care that provides for the full life. We’re here for all stages of care, for all dimensions of well-being and for all aspects dear to one’s life. We consider it a privilege and a calling to give more of ourselves in order to offer a truly exceptional experience, unlike any other.

Ace Maven Legal - Angela Tormey, Air Fore Veteran

ACEMaven Legal, P.A. is a Florida-based estate planning law firm, founded by Air Force veteran Angela Tormey, focusing on wills, trusts, probate avoidance, firearms planning, and veteran disability, known for a unique, holistic approach that goes beyond basic document preparation to build long-term client relationships and provide peace of mind through life's changes. They aim to educate clients, prevent family disputes, and save heirs from costly, public probate court processes with proactive planning.

ProVet Legal - Rebecca Deming, Military Spouse

ProVet Legal is a nationwide law firm of VA-accredited attorneys, founded by military spouse, Rebecca Deming, that helps U.S. veterans and their families secure disability and survivor benefits by handling complex VA claims and appeals, focusing on Total Disability based on Individual Unemployability (TDIU), rating increases, and survivor benefits like Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) on a contingency fee basis (no win, no fee). They emphasize personalized, compassionate representation, leveraging their understanding of the VA system to fight for maximum compensation for service-connected disabilities, even for those who faced initial denials.