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A Staffed Women Veterans Post, With a Registry Behind It

The state veterans department runs a women veterans programme under a named coordinator, serving more than nineteen thousand women veterans. It carries a registry, an annual summit, a retreat, a recognition award and a dedicated licence plate.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

The state veterans department runs a women veterans programme under a named coordinator, serving more than nineteen thousand women veterans. It carries a registry, an annual summit, a retreat, a recognition award and a dedicated licence plate.

What it's worth: A named coordinator, a registry, a summit, a retreat and a plate

  • The department names a women veterans coordinator and gives a departmental address and telephone number for her, at 501-683-2382.
  • The page states the state is home to more than nineteen thousand women veterans.
  • The programme’s stated mission is to identify, research and monitor the challenges women veterans face, to recommend initiatives and policy proposals, and to collaborate with stakeholders.
  • The page names the barriers it works on as access to quality health care, military sexual trauma, childcare and financial instability.
  • The programme runs a women veterans registry, a woman veteran of the year recognition, a women veteran retreat and a women veteran summit.
  • A dedicated women veterans licence plate is published alongside the programme.
  • Health care is signposted to the federal system — the two federal health facilities in the state, resources for pregnant women veterans, homeless women veterans support and breast cancer oncology.
  • The page names childcare as an acknowledged barrier but describes no childcare provision, and no women-specific housing provision appears.

Who is entitled to it

  • This record is about the person who served.
  • Your home is in this state.

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How to claim it

  1. 1Join the women veterans registry first. It is how the office finds you for the summit, the retreat and anything that follows, and it costs nothing.
  2. 2Ring the coordinator on 501-683-2382 rather than the general line. This is a staffed post, which is not true of every state that publishes one.
  3. 3Ask about the summit and the retreat dates when you register — both are annual and both fill.
  4. 4Ask about the women veterans licence plate at the same time; it is published with the programme but issued through the motor vehicle office.
  5. 5For women-specific health care, expect a referral into the federal system. The state programme is advocacy and convening, not clinical provision.
File with
Department of Veterans Affairs, Little Rock — women veterans programme
Documents you will need
dd214
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
Worth knowingNo statutory authority for the coordinator post was found. The programme is published as departmental practice, which means it depends on a budget line and a post-holder rather than on a code section — worth knowing before building a plan around it.
Worth knowingThe department names childcare as a barrier it works on, and offers nothing for it. That gap is stated here deliberately, because a page listing childcare among its concerns reads to a tired parent like a service.

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