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Unique Filmmaking Workshop for Veterans and At-Risk Youth

(SANTA FE, NM)—Shoot Video, Not Guns.

This is the idea behind Lift New Mexico, a unique filmmaking workshop for a group of fourteen armed forces veterans and at-risk youth for the next two weeks in Santa Fe.

Independe… Continue

(SANTA FE, NM)- "Soldiers of Honor"--a documentary movie created by the New Mexico Department of Veterans’ Services--will be shown at the prestigious Third Annual G.I. Film Festival next week in Washington, D.C.

Soldiers of Honor focuses on the first-ever visit of 40 World War II veterans from southern New Mexico to the National World War II Monument in Washington D.C. last fall. The group made the journey as part of the “Honor Flight Program” which pays for first-time visits of WWII veterans t… Continue

(SANTA FE, NM)--Two documentary movies produced by the New Mexico Department of Veterans’ Services (NMDVS) featuring New Mexico veterans are getting positive reviews throughout the state..

Letters of Honor was shown on Albuquerque TV station KNME-TV--New Mexico’s biggest PBS station--over the Veterans’ Day weekend.

Soldiers of Honor was screened before a near-capacity crowd of 350 at the historic Rio Grande Theater in Las Cruces on December 7th—the 67th anniversary of the Pearl H… Continue

SANTA FE, NM)--New Mexico Department of Veterans’ Services (NMDVS) Cabinet Secretary John M. Garcia delivered one of the keynote speeches at a recent Behavioral Health Collaborative Conference at the Albuquerque Convention Center on December 5th.

The collaborative is a joint effort between the NMDVS, the VA Hospital and Presbyterian Medical Center in Albuquerque, and other statewide medical clinics to treat behavioral health patients in New Mexico.

A major part of the 4-day conference focused… Continue