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A Veterans Court That Says It Takes Other-Than-Honorable

A voluntary court programme for people who have served, run with veteran mentors and with treatment recommendations from the federal health system and the state treatment access body. Its own page states that honorable and other-than-honorable discharges are both accepted, and that sex offenders are not.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

A voluntary court programme for people who have served, run with veteran mentors and with treatment recommendations from the federal health system and the state treatment access body. Its own page states that honorable and other-than-honorable discharges are both accepted, and that sex offenders are not.

What it's worth: A voluntary treatment docket that accepts other-than-honorable discharges

  • The state veterans office page states the court accepts a veteran, active duty or reserves — "we accept all those who have served in the military".
  • It states that honorable and other-than-honorable discharges are both accepted.
  • It states there are no sex offenders in the programme.
  • Participation is voluntary, entry is reviewed case by case against criminal history, and the participant must follow treatment recommendations from the federal health system and the state treatment access body.
  • The participant must appear in court for regular status conferences.
  • Mentor coordinators are published for two counties: Kent and Sussex.
  • A mentor is a veteran or has prior military experience, is expressly not a counsellor, and is described as helping in ways the court cannot.
  • What successful completion earns, the length of the programme and the charge types accepted are not stated on the page.
  • The general contact for the programme is the state veterans office on 302-739-2792.

Who is entitled to it

  • You served, which is the gate here.
  • The programme’s published gate reaches other-than-honorable discharges too.
  • Your home is in this state.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

Deadline: Set by the court
  1. 1Do not rule yourself out on discharge. This page names other-than-honorable as accepted, which is the opposite of the rule most state veteran programmes apply.
  2. 2Ask the court, in writing, what successful completion earns in your case. The programme page does not say, and the answer is the reason to enter.
  3. 3Ask for a mentor early, and ask for one who served in something like your own branch and era. The mentor is not a counsellor and not a lawyer, and that limit is stated.
  4. 4Line up the treatment side before the status conferences begin. Compliance with the treatment recommendations is a condition, not a suggestion.
  5. 5Ring the state veterans office on 302-739-2792 if the court has not raised the programme. The office publishes the programme; the court will not always offer it.
File with
Office of Veterans Services, and the court where the case is pending
Documents you will need
dd214
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
Worth knowingThe statutory authority for this court was not established. The page carries eligibility and mentor detail but names no code section, and the crucial question — what completion earns — is not answered on it. Both are carried as research candidates.

Sources

Why only one source type: The state veterans office page is the only page describing the programme that read this session; the court system’s own pages were not reached.

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