Visitation of Military Facility
Esi Daniels
Norfolk State University
Overview of Vet Center
The Veteran’s Center was first started in 1979 due to the increased amount of need that was observed when the Vietnam veterans showed that they were experiencing problems with readjusting after coming back to the United States. The goal of the Veteran Center is to provide a large range of counseling, community outreach, and necessary referral services to veterans who are eligible for the program and are in need of making the right post-war adjustment to civilian life. The centers are community based and are a branch of the nation’s Department of Veteran Affairs. Eligibility was extended to veterans that served in other times of wars
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after the Vietnam area. This happened in April 1991 and some of the included eras included were the Persian Gulf War, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Somalia, and Kosovo/Bosnia. In October of 1996, eligibility was extended again to Korean War and WWII veterans. In 2003, veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and subsequent operations that were part of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) became eligible for Veteran Center services. Also in 2003, VA Secretary Anthony J. Principi approved there being bereavement counseling services to surviving parents, spouses, children, and siblings of service members who died in active duty (this includes activated Reserve and National Guard personnel). The services that are given by the Vet Center came in adequate time because it was being found that after the Vietnam War, veterans were meeting together and self-soothing by meeting with one another and counseling each other or doing other things to comfort one another. That led to the increase of mental help specialists working with the Veteran Center. The Norfolk Vet Center is “small, but they do a lot.” Something important to this particular branch is that they add value to the Veteran and their family. The person that was interviewed was James Burrwell who is a former Norfolk State University student who received his MSW and then later went on to obtain his LCSW licensure. He is a former veteran who made his way to Virginia and became an associate professor at Norfolk State University before coming to the Veteran Center where he has been working for the past six years. Mr. Burrwell knows firsthand the challenges that veterans face when it comes to readjustment to civilian society. He explained that at one point even though he was out of the military, he would go the local base and stay there for hours because that was all he knew what to do at that time. Overcoming those struggles has allowed him to be a wonderful asset to the Vet Center to assist those that are facing what he had to deal with at some point in his life. Agency’s Mission Statement The Vet Center’s mission statement is “We are the people in VA who welcome home war Veterans with honor by providing readjustment counseling in a caring manner.
Vet Centers understand and appreciate Veterans’ war experiences while assisting them and their family members toward a successful post-war adjustment in or near their community." Their aim is to serve Veterans and their families by providing a continuum of valuable care that will later add value to the Veterans, their families, and communities. “Care” comes from the professional readjustment counseling, community education, outreach to special populations, the brokering of services in the U.S. Department of Veteran …show more content…
Affairs. There are specific goals that this agency hopes to provide their clients and their significant others with different services in order to assist them in dealing with readjustment problems that can be associated with going from the military way of living to the civilian lifestyle. All of this is included, but not limited to PTSD (Post Truamatic Stress Disorder). The center also aims to bring forth objectives to those that are receiving services to them. At the center they desire Veterans to be able to cope with stress, achieve self-esteem, obtain a “fresh start”, and to achieve their goals. The Veteran Centers have six main values that they stand on.
The first one is Veteran Centric Care which is what the Vet Centers does to ensure that quality readjustment services are given to clients and their families near and/or in their communities. The second value is Quality of Care which is optimize services to their transitioning clients. The third is Community Based Care which is what they do to ensure that the Veterans are aware of health care, educational, and different service information that is available to them. Delivery of Cost Effective & Accountable Services is the fourth one and that shows that the services provided are going to optimize the availability and efficient use of resources and services. The fifth value is Health, Wellness, and Preventative Services is there to show that the Vet Centers have collaborative relationships with different VA branches and other services to ensure that clients are receiving the best. Culturally Competent Services is the last Vet Center value and it is there to “enhance outreach and delivery of services” by creating a diverse workplace to refelect the Veteran
community. Policies and Procedures The major policy of the Veteran Center is to protect the privacy of all their clients. All of the information that is disclosed during the sessions are said in confidence and will never be shared with any other party. This is the same for all of the existing records that are related to treatment and they are store in a secure storage system. They only provide care for combat veterans that have fought in the specific wars (as mentioned in the “Overview of Vet Center” section). If a service member comes in who is not a combat veteran, they are allowed three session with one of the center’s clinician and then they will be transferred to another facility. The Norfolk Veteran Center is staffed with five total clinicians. Four of them have their LCSW licensure and one of them is working on it. Typically in Vet Centers the staff is filled with professionals that come from different disciplines such as psychology, social work, nursing, and rehabilitation counseling. A large amount of the staff of these centers are veterans themselves. According to Mr. Burrwell this is a benefit because no one understands a veteran like another veteran. He also says that there is also a great benefit in there being a clinician who has no military background as well. An example of this would be in a case where a client would be sharing their experiences and it could trigger the Veteran clinician, while it may not have as much of an affect with someone who doesn’t have that experience. Client Base The client base for this agency is combat Veterans and their families. Client Needs Service Delivery How Program Evaluates Itself Critique of Vet Center References
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