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New Website for Veterans to Order Contact Lenses
Veterans and their VA caregivers now have a new ay to get prescription contact lenses. The Veterans Canteen Service PatrioVision website allows Veterans, their families, caregivers and VA employees a new way to order prescription contacts, and orders include free...
How Have You Struggled with Housing?
You can help VA reach out to fellow Veterans by providing your input and letting us know your experience with homelessness, or those of friends and family. Visit the link below to share your concerns and thoughts about Veteran homelessness. How Have You Struggled With...
VA Announces Release of Nationwide Plan for Ending Suicide
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has released the President’s Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End a National Tragedy of Suicide (PREVENTS), an historic plan to raise awareness about mental health, connect Veterans and others at risk of suicide to federal...
Free Parenting Resources for Veterans
Let’s face it. Parenting is tough work. But you don’t have to go it alone. Resources to help Veteran and military families raising young children or babies are available for free. The ZERO TO THREE website has everything from information on how child temperaments...
VA Programs to Help Military Spouses Continue their Education
More than 500,000 military spouses in the U.S. are underemployed or unemployed. Veterans Affairs is committed to chipping away at that number. That’s why the Department has partnered with the DoD’s Military Spouse Employment Partnership (MSEP) program. “By taking this...
Treatment Options for Substance Use & Mental Health Concerns
There is no doubt that 2020 has been a year marked for many people by higher stress, financial challenges and general uncertainty. These challenging times often mean more people turning to substances to help cope with life difficulties. VA offers treatment options for...
Op-Ed: Two Mental Health Centers Hit with Defense Budget Cuts
The following is an opinion piece examining why the authors believe the closure of military trauma programs under the National Defense Authorization Act is poor policy. It was written by Harold Kudler, M.D., an adjunct associate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral...
Suicide Prevention Virtual Town Hall Series Kickoff
On June 17, Victor Armstrong, Director, NC Division of MHDDSAS, moderated the first of five virtual town halls on suicide prevention. Guests included Dr. Michelle Laws, Assistant Director, Division of MHDDSAS, Consumer Policy and Engagement, Dr. John Draper, Executive...
