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Women Veterans Office — Claims Help, Military Sexual Trauma Counselling, and Court Mentors

The Georgia Department of Veterans Service runs a Women Veterans Office with a full-time advocate. It provides direct assistance filing benefits claims, provides counselling for military sexual trauma, works with the department’s Veterans Field Service Offices to build a support network for veterans who have experienced military sexual trauma, and is charged with mentorship and advocacy for veterans working with Georgia’s veteran treatment courts.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

The Georgia Department of Veterans Service runs a Women Veterans Office with a full-time advocate. It provides direct assistance filing benefits claims, provides counselling for military sexual trauma, works with the department’s Veterans Field Service Offices to build a support network for veterans who have experienced military sexual trauma, and is charged with mentorship and advocacy for veterans working with Georgia’s veteran treatment courts.

What it's worth: Direct claims assistance, military sexual trauma counselling, and veteran treatment court mentorship

  • The department states the office’s mission is "to provide information, advocacy, outreach, and support to Georgia’s women veterans and their families", and that "Nearly 93,000 women veterans call Georgia home."
  • The department states: "The GDVS offers a full-time advocate for these veterans and their families in the Women Veterans Office."
  • The department states: "The Women Veterans Office provides direct assistance to veterans filing benefits claims, provides counselling for military sexual trauma, and hosts programs for women veterans and their families around the state. This office works with GDVS Veterans Field Service Offices to provide a network of support for veterans who have experienced military sexual trauma."
  • The department states: "The Women Veterans Office is also charged with providing mentorship and advocate for veterans working with Georgia’s veteran treatment courts."
  • Published hours are 9 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., Monday to Friday, except state and federal holidays.
  • No O.C.G.A. section creating the office was read this session, so this record rests on the department’s own page.

Who is entitled to it

  • You served, which is what this route is written around.
  • The office states it hosts programmes for women veterans and their families.
  • Your home is in Georgia.

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How to claim it

  1. 1Go to this office rather than a general enquiry line if your claim touches military sexual trauma. The department names counselling for military sexual trauma as one of the office’s own functions.
  2. 2Ask for direct claims assistance by name. The department states the office provides direct assistance to veterans filing benefits claims — that is a service, not a referral.
  3. 3Ask to be connected to a Veterans Field Service Office as well. The department describes the Women Veterans Office as working with those offices to build the support network, so the two are meant to be used together.
  4. 4If you are facing a criminal charge, mention the court mentorship. The office is charged with mentorship and advocacy for veterans working with Georgia’s veteran treatment courts, which is a different door onto the same programme.
  5. 5Reach the office within its published hours, 9 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., Monday to Friday, excluding state and federal holidays.
  6. 6Bring the DD Form 214. Claims assistance starts from the discharge document.
Form
None — contact the Director of the Women Veterans Office
File with
Georgia Department of Veterans Service, Women Veterans Office
Documents you will need
dd214
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
CorrectionThis is not an outreach-and-events office. The department’s own description puts claims filing and military sexual trauma counselling first, which makes it a service door rather than a networking one.
Worth knowingThe military sexual trauma work is not described as women-only. The department says the office works with the field service offices "to provide a network of support for veterans who have experienced military sexual trauma" — veterans, without qualification.
Known gapNo statute creating the office was read this session, and no O.C.G.A. section was located for it. The office’s persistence therefore rests on departmental practice as far as this corpus can establish.

Sources

Why only one source type: The office is a departmental unit with no statutory section of its own that was found this session, so the department’s own page is the whole of the authority; the O.C.G.A. chapter that would create it is recorded as a candidate rather than guessed at.

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