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Mental Health Home
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| The Office of Mental Health Services (OMHS) The Office of Mental Health Services aims to insure that all veterans have access to needed mental health care. VA Mental Health advances the principle that mental health care is an essential component of overall health care and promote mental health recovery. The internet site is intended to serve veterans, their family members, mental health clinicians, VA staff, affiliated mental health associations and the community, providing information about mental health conditions and services.
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VHA provides psychiatric services at medical centers and outpatient clinics and the services include:
 Compensated Work Therapy
Homeless
Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers (MIRECC)
My Healthe Vet
National Center for PTSD
OEF/OIF Returning Veterans - Mental Health Effects
Substance Abuse Resources
Vet Centers (Readjustment Counseling Services)
Women Veterans
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Counseling Veteran Students
This tool for university and college campus professionals provides information about unique challenges that veterans face in adjusting to college after deployment in war. Find out more about common mental health issues for veteran students and how to link them up with resources to help with coping and adjustment to the college experience. |
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Suicide Prevention Campaign
This month, more than 21,000 Blue line buses will leave their depots in 124 U.S. cities carrying a message of hope for those who have served their country. Veterans and their loved ones from L.A. to N.Y. will learn of a life-saving service VA has established for those with the courage to seek help. Since its inception, the VA Suicide Prevention Lifeline, 1 800-273-TALK, has directly saved more than 3,000 lives from suicide and provided counseling for more than 120,000 Veterans and their loved ones at home and overseas.
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Dr. Janet Kemp, national director of the VA Suicide Prevention Program at Canandaigua, NY, is one of 30 finalists for the Service to America Medal, in the Citizen Services category.
Dr. Kemp earned a Ph.D. in nursing and became an expert on suicide prevention. She was selected to establish the national veterans’ suicide prevention hotline, which became operational in July 2007, and moved from her Denver home to Canandaigua to develop the program that has rescued more than 3,000 veterans.
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Benefits: 1-800-827-1000
Education & Training: 1-888-442-4551
Life Insurance: 1-800-669-8477
Headstones/Markers: 1-800-488-8244
TDD: 1-800-829-4833 |
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| Reviewed/Updated Date: July 28, 2009 |
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