Bismarck Vet Center
We work with and provide referrals to the Fargo VA Medical Center Behavioral Health Department. We also provide available information about community resources.
We provide couples counseling as it relates to the care of the Veteran or service member.
We periodically host an educational group for significant others on the cycle of deployment and the impact of deployment. This group is open to adult significant others of Veterans and service members, from all eras, who are active clients of the Bismarck Vet Center.
Please contact us for upcoming dates and availability.
We partner with other groups in the Veteran world to serve as a referral resource for Veterans and service members.
Some of our partners include:
- Local County/Tribal Veteran Service Offices
- Veteran Service Organizations
- Various offices within the North Dakota National Guard and the Army Reserve
- North Dakota Department of Vocational Rehabilitation
- Job Service North Dakota
- North Dakota Veterans' Cemetery
- Community Action
We also provide briefings and education to various law enforcement agencies and others that may encounter Veterans on a variety of topics such as military culture and PTSD overview.
We offer counseling and other support, such as:
- Bereavement counseling for families who have lost a loved one while they were serving on active duty
- Contact information to the Veterans Benefits Administration regarding possible burial and survivor benefits
We offer individual, couples, and group counseling. We also provide referral services to appropriate resources in our community. Care at our center includes:
- Counseling sessions to address your individual concerns and needs
- Group for Desert Storm, OEF, OIF, and other GWOT combat Veterans and service members to support each other. To join this group, you’ll need a staff or counselor’s referral. This group meets on Mondays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Several of our staff are Veterans and understand the challenges you face.
Military sexual trauma knows no gender.
Our counselors use a trauma-informed care approach to provide therapy and supportive services to those who have experienced military sexual trauma.
We offer individual, couples, and group counseling. We also provide referral services to appropriate resources in our community.
Care at our center includes counseling sessions to address your individual concerns and needs.
If you’re feeling on edge and on guard, having trouble with sleep or motivation, or just feeling unlike yourself following a major event or critical incident, we can help. We’ll teach you tools to manage these problems and get back on track. Asking for help takes courage. We provide the private, comfortable setting with expert counselors to help you take that next step.
We know that completing military service can come with a variety of new challenges. Navigating the VA system and other benefits alone can be overwhelming. We can provide education and connection for:
- Enrollment in VA health care benefits
- Filing a military-related disability claim
- Connection to employment opportunities
- Using VA education benefits
- Using your VA home loan
- Connecting to state benefits and services
We're engaged with local military units through the Yellow Ribbon program to allow for interaction before, during, and after deployments.
Our primary focus is your safety. If you feel hopeless, suicidal, or in need of crisis care, just let your counselor know. Together, we can work to help you stay safe and improve your world.
You can also text the Veterans Crisis Line at 838255 or visit the site for confidential chat.
Several of our staff are Veterans and understand the challenges you face.
We know that completing military service can come with a variety of new challenges. Navigating the VA system and other benefits alone can be overwhelming. We can provide education and connection for:
- Enrollment in VA health care benefits
- Filing a military-related disability claim
- Connection to employment opportunities
- Using VA education benefits
- Using your VA home loan
- Connecting to state benefits and services
We work hand-in-hand with a variety of agencies to connect Veterans with available resources.
One of our primary resources are our County and Tribal Veteran Service Officers.
How we're different than a clinic (FAQs)
How we’re different than a clinic
What are Vet Centers?
Vet Centers are small, non-medical, counseling centers conveniently located in your community. They’re staffed by highly trained counselors and team members dedicated to seeing you through the challenges that come with managing life during and after the military.
Whether you come in for one-on-one counseling or to participate in a group session, at Vet Centers you can form social connections, try new things, and build a support system with people who understand you and want to help you succeed.
Who is eligible to receive services at Vet Centers?
Vet Center services are available to you at no cost, regardless of discharge character, and without you needing to be enrolled in VA health care or having a service-connected disability. If you’re a Veteran or service member, including members of the National Guard and Reserve, you can access our services if you:
- Served on active military duty in any combat theater or area of hostility
- Experienced military sexual trauma (regardless of gender or service era)
- Provided mortuary services or direct emergent medical care to treat the casualties of war while serving on active military duty
- Performed as a member of an unmanned aerial vehicle crew that provided direct support to operations in a combat theater or area of hostility
- Accessed care at a Vet Center prior to January 2, 2013, as a Vietnam-Era Veteran
- Served on active military duty in response to a national emergency or major disaster declared by the president, or under orders of the governor or chief executive of a state in response to a disaster or civil disorder in that state.
- Are a current or former member of the Coast Guard who participated in a drug interdiction operation, regardless of the location.
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Are a current member of the Reserve Components assigned to a military command in a drilling status, including active Reserves, who has a behavioral health condition or psychological trauma related to military service that adversely effects quality of life or adjustment to civilian life.
We encourage you to contact us, even if you’re unsure if you meet these criteria. If we can’t help you, we’ll find someone who will.
Our services are also available to family members when their participation would support the growth and goals of the Veteran or active-duty service member. If you consider them family, so do we. We also offer bereavement services to family members of Veterans who were receiving Vet Center services at the time of the Veteran’s death, and to the families of service members who died while serving on active duty.
Do I have to be enrolled in VA health care to access Vet Center services?
No. You don’t have to be enrolled in VA health care or have a service-connected disability.
What about my privacy?
Safe and confidential. Our records can’t be accessed by other VA offices, the DoD, military units, or other community networks and providers without your permission or unless required to avert a life-threatening situation. Here, you can be as open as you want—there’s absolutely no judgment.