Wasilla Vet Center - Addiction and substance abuse care

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Vet Center service description

At the Wasilla Vet Center, we provide long-term supportive care to help Veterans and service members overcome underlying issues.

We refer Veterans and service members struggling with addiction to the Alaska VA Healthcare System and other community partners for primary addiction treatment, detoxification, stabilization. 

Yuma Vet Center - Veteran connections

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Vet Center service description

The Yuma Vet Center can help you know where to go and how to register for:

  • How to get VA medical benefits and register for care
  • Where to go to file claims and other forms
  • Understanding your VA education benefits
  • Education and referral for VA burial benefits
  • Housing and home loans

We can also connect you to Veterans Service Organizations in your community. 

Yuma Vet Center - Suicide prevention

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Vet Center service description

If a situation exceeds a person’s coping skills, they are in crisis. Crisis services are available to any person in the community, no matter their insurance status. The goal of crisis intervention services is to take care of the immediate crisis.  If you live in La Paz or Yuma Counties , you can access crisis services by calling Southern Arizona Crisis Line at 1-866-495-6735. 

Crisis Mobile Teams may travel to the place where a person is in crisis to:

  • Support the person
  • Address the crisis
  • Look at treatment needs and
  • Give access to follow-up services

Yuma Vet Center - Mental health care

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Vet Center service description

At the Yuma Vet Center, we offer individual, family, marriage and group counseling. We also provide referral services to appropriate resources in our community.

Care at our center includes:

  • One-on-one counseling sessions targeted at your individual needs
  • Family and marriage counseling to address the client's military related problems and post military adjustment
  • Group counseling opportunities:  
    • Vietnam Combat Veteran
    • OEF/OIF 
    • Changing Times (US withdrawal from Afghanistan)
    • Happy Feet (guided meditation walking)

Therapeutic modalities utilized include:

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)