Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Getting Veterans connected with appropriate VA care
MST-related treatment is available at all VA medical facilities and all treatment for physical and mental …
Category: Mental Health
Wordcommandos: Encouraging Veterans to write and submit their works
Writing has therapeutic significance for Veterans with PTSD, be it factual or expressive in nature.
Veterans: Sharing your experience can save a life
We all want to reach millions with our story, but that's only so we can trust we reach the one that needs to …
VA offers free Military Sexual Trauma health care services to Veterans regardless of service-connected status
Know that MST is an experience, not a diagnosis or a condition in and of itself. Veterans may react in a …
VA secretary announces intention to expand mental health care to former Servicemembers with other-than-honorable discharges and in crisis
It is estimated that there are a little more than 500,000 former service members with OTH discharges who, …
Waffle loves Veterans: How dogs make hard times easier
Most people who work with Veterans have heard them talk about the importance of their attachment to their …
Addiction recovery methods found useful in treating some Veterans with PTSD
Veterans today can receive many types of effective treatment to address this condition. Although the …
VA Community Care partners with providers to expand mental health services
Last fiscal year, VA provided mental health treatment to more than 1.6 million Veterans, resulting in over …
VA pilots program to expand veterinary health benefits for mental health mobility service dogs
Under an innovative pilot program, up to 100 Veterans with mobility impairments secondary to a mental health …
A hesitant Veteran overcomes stigma to find help, health at Dallas VA
“The staff and the Veterans who use VA understand me, what I went through, and what I need to get where I …