1. Vet Center Readjustment Counseling Services for Veterans

2. Readjustment Counseling Service
We are the community-based professionals within the VA who welcome home the war veteran by providing top-quality, compassionate readjustment assistance to the veteran and their family in order to facilitate a successful return to civilian life within their community.

3. Vet Centers’ History First organized by veterans for veterans
Storefront outreach to Vietnam Vets
Significant numbers still having readjustment issues.
Main idea was peer to peer counseling
Enacted by Congress in 1979 – PL 96-22
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Separate charter and scope of operation

4. Veterans serving Veterans

5. Mission of Readjustment Counseling Services
Vet Centers serve veterans and their families by providing a continuum of quality care that adds value for veterans, families, and communities. Care includes professional readjustment counseling, community education, outreach to special populations, the brokering of services with community agencies, and provides a key access link between the veteran and other services in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

6. Vet Center Goals
Provide a broad range of services to Veterans and their families
Counseling
Outreach
Referrals
Promote a satisfying postwar readjustment to civilian life

7. Services Provided Individual and group counseling
Marital/family/couples counseling
Spouse/significant other counseling/group
Grief/bereavement counseling for family
members of military personnel who die
on activity duty (including reservist and
national guard personnel)

8. Services Provided Counseling for military sexual trauma
Referral to alcohol/drug counseling
Employment opportunity referrals
Benefit and assistance referrals
Liaison to other VA facilities/services

9. Transition from Warrior to Civilian

10. Mobile Vet Center

11. Cost/Eligibility
How does the veteran pay for these services, and who is eligible?
Veterans have already paid for these services based upon their self-less sacrifice to our country. They only need to provide a DD 214 form to verify military and/or combat service.

12. Keeping the Promise
“…to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan” – Abraham Lincoln.

13. Grand Rapids Vet Center Staff
Darryl P. Plunkett, Ph.D. Jennifer Root, MA, LPC
Director Readjustment Counselor
Gloria Anderson, MA, LMFT Joe Martinez, MS, LPC
Readjustment Counselor Readjustment Counselor
Brian Gripentrog, LMSW Kristina Krozal, MA, LPC
Readjustment Counselor Readjustment Counselor.
Frank Blair Jr., MA, LPC Brucina Mayfield, B.S.
Readjustment Counselor Program Support Asst.

14. Grand Rapids Vet Center
How to Contact Us
Grand Rapids Vet Center
2050 Breton SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49546
Phone: (616)
Fax (616)

15. Questions?