VA provides eligible Veterans and their families readjustment counseling through 300 Vet Centers located in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and Guam.

Vet Centers are community-based counseling centers that provide a wide range of social and psychological services including professional readjustment counseling to Veterans and families, military sexual trauma counseling, and bereavement counseling for families who experience an active duty death.

A core value of the Vet Center program is to promote access to care by helping Veterans and families overcome barriers that impede them from using those services. For example, all Vet Centers have availability during non-traditional hours after normal business hours as well as on Saturdays. All services are without time limitation and at no cost to the Veteran. All Vet Center services are provided to the Veteran and their family without cost or time limitation. All services are prepaid through the Veteran’s service.

Readjustment counseling is a wide range of psycho social services offered to eligible Veterans and their families in the effort to make a successful transition from military to civilian life. They include:

• Individual counseling,
• Group counseling,
• Family counseling for issues related to the readjustment of the Veteran,
• Bereavement counseling for families who experience an active duty death,
• VA medical benefit referral,
• VBA benefits referral,
• Employment counseling, guidance, and referrals,
• Alcohol/ substance abuse assessments and referrals,
• Information and referral to community resources,
• Military sexual trauma counseling & referral, and
• Outreach and Community education