LibGuides: Veterans' Resources: Health and Wellness

CFCC Library Guide

PTSD Library Guide
Many resources about post-traumatic stress disorder are included. Books, articles, videos, and weblinks are given to make a comprehensive guide.

General Health Resources

Army Behavioral Health
Explore this website especially for soldiers, families, and friends. Learn how to adjust, cope, get ready to deploy, transition to return home, and find other information and sources. The vision of the Army Behavioral Health team is to educate, prevent, and treat early with the goal of ensuring that every deployed and returning soldier receives the health care they need.
Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
Our sustained mission is to advance scientific and academic knowledge, interventions, educational resources and outreach to mitigate the impact of trauma from exposure to war, disasters, terrorism, community violence and public health threats. Our Center’s mission continues to be essential to the Department of Defense and the nation. Center scientists, educators and clinicians continue to bring scholarly and research oriented problem solving to the mental and behavioral health problems of those exposed to war, disaster and traumatic events.
Disabled American Veterans (DAV)
The DAV homepage provides a link to benefits assistance for veterans.
Federal Benefits for Veterans, Dependents and Survivors
Lists the federal benefits for veterans, dependents, and survivors.
Health Care
The Veterans Health Administration is home to the United States’ largest integrated health care system consisting of 152 medical centers, nearly 1,400 community-based outpatient clinics, community living centers, Vet Centers and Domiciliaries. Together these health care facilities and the more than 53,000 independent licensed health care practitioners who work within them provide comprehensive care to more than 8.3 million veterans each year.
Health Care for Veterans
Veteran information on medical benefits, health care, health programs, and preventive vaccinations.
My HealtheVet
My HealtheVet is the VA's Personal Health Record. It was designed for Veterans, active duty Servicemembers, their dependents and caregivers. My HealtheVet helps you partner with your health care team. It provides you opportunities and tools to make informed decisions.
National Alliance on Mental Illness Veterans' Resource Center (NAMI)
With soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with mental health concerns, NAMI recognizes the need for increased services for veterans and their families. Our Veterans Resources Center consolidates the most useful online resources, whether you are looking for information on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, mental illness or how to obtain Veterans Administration (VA) benefits
National Resource Directory
The home page of this website provides a link for benefits and compensation for veterans, service members, families and caregivers.
Veterans and Mesothelioma (Asbestos.com)
Services Offered to Veterans:
1. Two retired navy Veterans who provide 1-on-1 with veterans and
their families.
2. Assistance with filing VA claims to ensure veterans get maximum benefits.
3. Informational books and literature.
4. Help with finding local VA treatment centers & doctors specializing in asbestos- related disease treatment.
5. Support group access.
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There are currently about 21.5 million living individuals who have served in the United States' Armed Forces. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of these living veterans were exposed to toxic asbestos-containing materials during military service. This has resulted in an elevated rate of asbestos-related diseases in veterans.
Veterans are allowed to apply for Veteran Affairs (VA) benefits for asbestos-related diseases, and the resources at Asbestos.com can assist veterans in applying for benefits. Initially, a veteran must provide proof that their disease is asbestos-related and that exposure occurred during military service.
Veterans and Military Health
A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health, this site provides links to issues related to veterans' physical and mental health.
Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment Program
This program assists veterans with service-connected disabilities to prepare for, find, and keep suitable jobs. For veterans with service-connected disabilities so severe that they cannot immediately consider work, this program offers services to improve their ability to live as independently as possible.
Women Veterans Health Care
The Women Veterans Health Program was created to streamline services for women Veterans in order to provide more cost-effective medical and psychosocial care.