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Readjustment Counseling Services at Vet Centers

Learn how servicemembers can get readjustment counseling services through VA programs in all 50 states.
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About the program

The VA provides outreach and readjustment counseling services through 232 community-based Vet Centers located in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Services Offered:

  • Vet Center counselors provide individual, group, and family readjustment counseling to combat veterans to assist them in making a successful transition from military to civilian life;
  • counseling services treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and help with any other military related problems that affect functioning within the family, work, school or other areas of everyday life;
  • other psycho-social services include outreach, education, medical referral, homeless veteran services, employment, VA benefit referral, and the brokering of non-VA services;
  • provide military sexual trauma counseling to Veterans of both genders and of any era of military service.

Who is eligible

  • Veterans who served on active duty in a combat theater during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, or the campaigns in Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Global War on Terror.
  • Veterans, who served in the active military during the Vietnam-era, but not in the Republic of Vietnam, must have requested services at a Vet Center before Jan. 1, 2004.

Vet Centers do not require enrollment in the VHA Health Care System.

How to apply

VA's readjustment counseling is provided at community-based Vet Centers located near 600 Washington St., 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02111.

All Vet Center services are prepaid through military service. Contact your nearest Vet Center through information provided in the Vet Center Directory or listings in your local blue pages. Vet Center staff are available toll free during normal business hours at 1(800)-905-4675 (Eastern) and 1(866) 496-8838 (Pacific).

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For more information

You may also want to contact the Statewide Advocacy for Veterans' Empowerment (SAVE) team at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Veterans' Services. SAVE's contact information can be found here: www.mass.gov/veterans/health-and-well-being/counseling/suicide-prevention-only/save.html

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