2025 Women Veterans Recognition Day Celebration

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT- PLEASE REGISTER FOR THE WAITLIST.

Due to capacity restrictions, you must have a ticket to attend & registration will be checked at the door. Thank you for understanding!

Join us for our 2025 Women Veterans Recognition Day Celebration!

Date: Saturday June 7 2025

Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Location: American Legion Post 29 Hall in Glendale (non-smoking)

Get ready to celebrate the power, resilience, and unstoppable spirit of local women veterans at our 2025 Women Veterans Recognition Day event! We’re bringing together trailblazers, leaders, and changemakers for a morning of connection, inspiration, and community. This is your time to share your story, lift each other up, and ignite your impact—because together we’re still serving and still leading the way.

In the spirit of Women Veterans Recognition Day—celebrated every year on June 12—we honor the bold women who paved the way through the signing of the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act. Today, we carry that legacy forward and celebrate how far we’ve come—and where we’re headed next.

Join us as we honor the past celebrate the present and ignite the future—together.

Highlights Include:

• Light breakfast and community resource/engagement opportunities
• Guest speaker, inspiring panel discussion and audience Q&A
• Networking lunch with keynote speaker
• Mini spa & wellness experience with yoga, skincare, oils, and mindfulness activities
• Raffle prizes

Thank you to Wounded Warrior Project for sponsoring food & refreshments!

All eras all branches all welcome –This event is for Women Service Members/Veterans ONLY! Sorry, NO children, spouses, significant others, friends (unless also a woman service member/veteran herself) ~ necessary caregivers and service animals are welcome. 

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Want to connect with someone before the event or need support now? You can call text or chat online with the Women Veterans Call Center (WVCC) or the Veterans Crisis Line:

https://www.womenshealth.va.gov/wvcc.asp

https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/

Join our weekly Peer Support Group:

We are proud to partner with Televeda to offer a virtual Support Circle for those who have served!

This support circle offers a safe and compassionate space where courage meets understanding. Led by a certified peer support specialist and fellow female veteran, Dana West, this group is specifically designed for women who have served. Open to any female veteran/service member regardless of branch, era, length of service, component, deployment status or geographic location.

This event is every week on the Televeda platform!

Go To:   http://live.televeda.com/signup and use Referral Code: AZVETS. If you need assistance signing up please call 833-299-1449.

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Who Are We:

West Valley Women Veterans is a peer-led community organization dedicated to supporting, empowering, & celebrating the unique strengths & experiences of women who have served in the military that call the Greater Phoenix area home.

Our mission is to enhance the quality of life & well-being of women who have served in the military, support their successful reintegration, & empower them to become leaders in our local communities.