Serving the Military Member or Veteran

 NASW, OH Chapter will continue to update this website with information to assist you, the social worker, in providing effective services to those in the military and their families. 

• Social Workers speak on Veteran Issues

• Social Workers and Veterans

• Social Work in the Department of Veterans Affairs: Lessons Learned: This article provides an overview of the practice of social work in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs VA) and the role social workers have played in VA's transformation into a leading provider of health care. VA is the nation's largest employer of workers with MSW degrees, with more than 4,400 assigned to VA

• Traumatic Grief:  Symptomatology and Treatment for the Iraq War Veteran: A National Center for PTSD Fact Sheet

• The Iraq War Clinician Guide, 2^nd Edition, National Center for PTSD

• Management of Post-Traumatic Stress, Clinical Practice Guideline Working Group, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs and Health Affairs, Department of Defense, December 2003

• Military Sexual Trauma:

  • http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/pages/military-sexual-trauma.asp
  • http://www.publichealth.va.gov/womenshealth/trauma.asp
  • http://iava.org/testimonies/healing-wounds-evaluating-military-sexual-trauma

• Resources for Working with Military Personnel and Their Families

• Reintegration Fact Sheet for Providers: Courage to Care, Uniformed Services University of the Health Services

• Military Family Research Institute of Purdue University

• Return and Reunion Information, Return and Reunion Guide, Return and Reunion B9irf, Operation Iraqi Freedom Warrior transition

• The National Mental Health Association:  Coping with War-Related Stress: information for Military Families and Communities

• Deployment Guide 2003 includes Readjusting after a deployment

• That National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder:  Iraq War Clinician’s Guide

• American Psychological Association’s “Resilience in a Time of War”

• Homecoming After Deployment: Tips for Reunion: A National Center for PTSD Fact Sheet

• S.A.F.E. Program, Support And Family Education:  Mental Health Facts for Families.  An 18 session curriculum for people who care about someone who has a mental illness or PTSDE. Entire curriculum is available for free download on website.

• VA’s Seamless Transition Office

• Mental Health Self-Assessment program (DOD sponsored anonymous mental health/alcohol screening and referall program offered to families nad servicemembers affected by deployment or mobilization – available online 24/7)

• Returning from the War Zone:  A Guide for Military Personnel, A National Center for PTSD Fact Sheet

• When the Letdown Doesn’t Let UP, National Mental Health Association

• How to Get back to “Normal”, National Mental Health Association

• Center for Women Veterans

• Civilian social work: serving the military and veteran populations. 

• Center for Minority Veterans: http://www1.va.gov/centerforminorityveterans/

• Center for Women Veterans: www.va.gov/womenvet

• Department of Veterans Affairs: www.va.gov

• Directory of National Veterans Service Organizations: www.va.gov/vso

• DoD/VA Benefits for Guard & Reserve Members: http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/Viewpublication.asp?pub_ID=1138

• Employment help: www4.va.gov/jobs/

• Enrollment in VA’s Health Care System: www.va.gov/healtheligibility/ 

• Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships: http://www1.va.gov/opa/fbci/index.asp 

• Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents: http://www1.va.gov/opa/vadocs/fedben.pdf 

• History of Veterans Day: www.va.gov/vetsday.

• Homeless Veterans Program: www.va.gov/homeless/index.cfm

• HR-Veteran Statistics: http://vssc.med.va.gov/HR/Veteran.asp

• Information for Reservists Called to Active Duty: http://www.va.gov/ohrm/reservist/

• National Center for PTSD 

• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org

• Returning OEF/OIF service members: http://www.oefoif.va.gov

• Summary of VA Benefits: www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/summaryVAbenefits.pdf

• Survivor Benefits Homepage: http://www.vba.va.gov/survivors/

• VA Advisory Committees www.va.gov/advisory

• VA Benefits for Veterans of Enduring Freedom-Iraqi Freedom: http://vaww.va.gov/oaa/pocketcard/oefoif.asp

• VA Center for Veterans Enterprise & Business: www.vetbiz.gov/

• VA Health Services Research & Development website: www.hsrd.research.va.gov

• VA Kids website: www.va.gov/kids

• VA National Cemetery Administration Website: www.cem.va.gov 

• VA National Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention: www.prevention.va.gov/W.asp 

• VA National Veterans Employment Office website: www.va.gov/jobs. 

• VA Public Affairs for News Releases: www.va.gov/OPA/pressrel/pressarchinternet.cfm and www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/opalist_listserv.cfm

• VA Statistics: www.va.gov/vetdata

• Veterans Benefits Administration: www.vba.va.gov 

• Veterans Board of Appeals: www.va.gov/vbs/bva

• Vet Center Website: http://www.vetcenter.va.gov 

• VA Education Benefits and Servces: www.gibill.va.gov 

• VA Home Loan Guaranty: www.homeloans.va.gov

•  FACT Sheets-Courage to Care is a new, electronic health campaign for military and civilian professionals serving the military community, as well as for military men, women and families. Courage to Care consists of electronic fact sheets (see attached fact sheets) on timely health topics relevant to military life that provide actionable information. Courage to Care is in the public domain; designed to be or fit into your health outreach; customized with your local contact information and sent to your provider or support group network, even put on your own websites or sent to friends and family. Courage to Care content is developed by leading military health experts from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, your nation’s federal medical school.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

• NASW Speciality Sections- Special Report on Veteran's Issues

• NASW- The Emerging Needs of Veterans: A Call to Action for the Social Work Profession