Veteran Peer Specialist, Virginia Veteran and Family Support

The Chesterfield County Department of Mental Health Support Services offers a Veteran Peer Specialist is a person with a behavioral health or co-occurring condition, actively engaged in their own recovery, who has been trained and certified to help others with these conditions to identify and achieve specific life and recovery goals.

Region IV of Virginia Veteran and Family Support (VVFS) places special emphasis on assisting service members, veterans, and families on their road to recovery from the effects of stress-related injuries (such as combat stress, post traumatic stress or military sexual trauma) or traumatic brain injuries.

Through a regional consortia of Community Services Boards, brain injury services providers and other public and private services providers, Region IV of VVFS offers the following services to veterans and their families in Central Virginia:

• Assessment of individual and family needs and direct provision of needed medical, behavioral health or rehabilitative services available through public and private treatment programs;
• Linkages to veterans benefits services, transportation, housing, employment and education assistance programs
• Veterans networking, peer support groups, and family support groups throughout Central Virginia.