2025 – 2026
Theme: “Sacrifice Honored, Security Ensured: Our Sisters’ Keeper”
Motto: SHE (Salute Heroines Everyday)
Christina “Chrissy” Albright
Department President
Welcome to the AMVETS Ladies Auxiliary, Department of Florida. I am humbled and privileged to serve as your Department President for this ensuing year. Please know that I will give my all to serve this Department and the locals within the Department to the best of my ability.
My theme is “Sacrifice Honored, Security Ensured: Our Sisters’ Keeper” and that theme is supported by the motto “SHE (Salute Heroines Everyday)”. My project for this year is to support Northeast Florida Women Veterans, an organization in Jacksonville whose mission is to assist female veterans in transitioning back to civilian life by ensuring they have all the resources necessary to be self-sufficient. While they have six very strong programs, any money raised on behalf of my project will be divided equally between two specific programs: HerSPACE and Operation HandUP. HerSPACE provides emergency housing for up to 6 women veterans and their children and Operation HandUP provides not only physical goods and financial assistance but also provides comprehensive case management to include mental health counseling and the program has dedicated licensed mental health counselors on staff. I encourage you to read about them on their website https://forwomenvets.org/
Thank you again for electing me as your President. I look forward to working with you all to honor the sacrifice of our female veterans and helping to ensure their sacrifices are honored.
We are, as Auxiliary, our sisters’ keepers.
AMVETS Ladies Auxiliary is made up of dedicated women whose primary focus revolves around our relationship to an individual who has honorably served our country in military service. As Auxiliary volunteers, we are helping, caring and sharing for our community and for those who are serving and have served our country. We join together as an organization to promote, support, and assist our parent organization AMVETS in achieving this goal.
AMVETS Ladies Auxiliary’s most important program is membership for without members our service programs would not exist. Membership provides AMVETS Ladies Auxiliary with the potential to be effective in legislation and the ability to be heard on issues that are important to Veterans and their families. We strive to gain positive recognition in the media to gain publicity for our programs. Working together gives us the opportunity to explore the financial resources need to carry out our service programs and to develop new ones as the need arises. AMVETS Ladies Auxiliary is involved in many worthy causes that help the smallest child to the oldest of adults. Many adults benefit from a wide variety of programs AMVETS Ladies Auxiliary sponsors in our community. Our Veterans and their families are our number one priority. Our VA Medical Centers provide the best of medical care to our Veterans while we provide the most dedicated volunteers who give our Veterans love and hope. Americanism is one of our most valuable assets for without it we would not be the most caring country in the world. We have many scholarship programs that assist our members, as well as our sons, daughters, and grandchildren. THAT’S WHAT WE DO!