Oakland Vet Center

Hi everyone! Vet Centers now have their own web pages! It’s an exciting new era for VC visibility, and we have been asked to deprecate this page to prepare for the new changes.

As a result, THIS PAGE IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED. Please call or visit our website to talk with us - https://www.va.gov/oakland-vet-center/

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Happy Holidays from the Oakland Vet Center!

Oakland’s War Veterans Find Healing Through Art - Artistic Fuel An unlikely partnership between the Oakland Vet Center and Alameda County Arts Commission is using art to help war veterans find healing.

City of Abilene becomes first city in Texas to house all homeless veterans, 9th in America TheCity of Abilene is the first city in Texas and ninth in Americato house all homeless veterans. In October, Abilene Mayor Anthony Williams launched the Mayor's Challenge to end veterans' homelessness within 100 days. The idea was to find housing for homeless veterans, which would help them start t...

Homeless women veterans are afraid to be separated from their children if they seek help, advocates say Women veterans are the fastest growing group of homeless veterans and advocates say it could be much worse.

If you are Active Duty, and you were either combat deployed or exposed to Military Sexual Trauma, then you meet eligibility requirements to be treated at any Vet Center. Our records are kept confidential from your unit, the VA, or whomever you don’t want to have your information. Many Vet Center employees are themselves veterans, and we know what you are going through.

YOU ARE NEVER ALONE. Please come see us.

Marine Corps suicides have reached their highest level in a decade Every Marine who takes his or her own life is more than a number, but the numbers tell a distressing story

Thank you to all Vietnam Veterans. You have borne the battle in so many ways, and we are grateful for and respectful of your sacrifices and service.

‘Til Valhalla, brother.

Marine killed in Vietnam whose grave was unmarked for 50 years is memorialized A Florida city dedicated a bronze grave marker Saturday memorializing a native son who was killed in action in Vietnam and whose burial spot was unmarked for 50 years.

Vet Centers have been doing this since the 1970s! We wish more people knew about us. Veterans started “talking other Veterans down” because the VA was not a place Veterans felt safe or cared for during and after the highly unpopular Vietnam Conflict. Veterans were advised to dump their uniforms before leaving the airport upon their arrivals back into the States, and to leave looking as civilian as possible. Vet Centers arose as an answer to the hopelessness and isolation those returning from War felt, and it was Veterans who met in cafes, homes, anywhere they could to counsel their own and help them readjust to civilian society. Our legacy is rich and we are proud to serve our brothers and sisters who have borne the battle. Vet Centers - started by vets, for vets.

Veterans talking veterans back from the brink: A new approach to policing and lives in crisis The novel partnership between a California sheriff’s department and a VA hospital has already responded to more than 125 emergencies.

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95-year-old WWII vet will run across the U.S. for a second time His last run took three years. He expects this one will take a little longer.