Hotlines

• Veterans Crisis Line – Confidential toll-free hotline, online chat, or text options.
  • Phone: 800 273-8255 and press 1
  • 800-799-4889 for the deaf and hard of hearing’
• U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • National Center for PTSD – Information for veterans and families.
  • National Center for PTSD Care for Women Veterans
  • Crisis Hotline: 988, Text 838255
  • Women Veterans Call Center: 855-829-6636

National Services

• National Resource Directory (NRD) is a database of validated resources that supports recovery, rehabilitation, and reintegration for service members, veterans, family members, and caregivers.
• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Veterans and Active Duty – NAMI offers information, support and education specifically for veterans, service members and their families.
• Veterans Administration Health Accounts – MyHealthVet
• Disabled American Veterans (DAV) – National Service Officers function as attorneys-in-fact, assisting veterans and their families in filing claims for VA disability compensation and pension; vocational rehabilitation and employment; education; home loan guaranty; life insurance; death benefits; health care and much more free of charge.
  • VA Regional Office – JFK Federal Building, Government Center, Rm 1575B, Boston MA, Phone: 617-303-5675

MA State Services

• VA Boston Healthcare System – U.S Dept. of Veterans Affairs
• Local Veterans’ Service Officers – Veterans Agent in each town may be able to help find services.
• MA Department of Veterans’ Services
• Statewide Advocacy for Veterans’ Empowerment – SAVE’s mission is suicide prevention and advocacy of veterans benefits and services through active outreach in the community. (617) 210-5743
• Veterans’ Job Programs and Services – The MassHire Department of Career Services provides employment and training services to veterans and their families.
• Greater Boston Chapter of Spinal Cord Injury Association
• Brain Injury Association of MA
• Neuro-Rehab Management, Inc. – provides Head Injury Community Services based in Woburn, MA
• Home Base Program – The Red Sox Foundation and MA General Hospital provide clinical care and support for veterans (and families) who deployed in support of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and live with deployment- or combat-related stress, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and/or traumatic brain injury. 617-724-5202

Benefits

• MA Vets Advisor – provides numerous resources on benefits, employment, training, education benefits, housing, outreach, counseling and more for veterans and their families.
• VA Aid and Attendance (A&A) pension benefit – from the Veterans’ Administration. This Special Pension (part of the VA Improved Pension program) allows for Veterans and surviving spouses who require the regular attendance of another person to assist in eating, bathing, dressing, undressing or taking care of the needs of nature to receive additional monetary benefits. It also includes individuals who are blind or a patient in a nursing home because of mental or physical incapacity. Assisted care in an assisted living facility also qualifies.
• Veterans’ Laws and Benefits – from the MA Secretary of the Commonwealth.
• Vision Care Guide from Veterans (Note: The source is a for-profit LASIK services)
• Veteran’s Dental Benefits (Note: The source is a for-profit orthodontic device)

Other

• Homes for Our Troops At no cost, this organization assists severely injured Servicemen and Servicewomen and their immediate families by raising donations of money, building materials and professional labor and to coordinate the process of building a home that provides maximum freedom of movement and the ability to live more independently. Homes for Our Troops is a national organization based in Taunton, MA.
• VA Caregiver Support – U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs – Offers training, educational resources, and multiple tools to help you succeed. 855-260-3274
• VA Mobile Apps – The mobile apps (applications) provide self-help, education and support following trauma. They also have treatment companion apps, for use with a health care provider, to make treatment easier.
  The Apps are free for Apple and Android devices. From U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD