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The Women Veterans Programme — Including a Route to a Female Service Officer

The state veterans department runs a women veterans programme with its own coordinator. The most practical thing in it is small and easy to miss: a Female VSO Support Request form, which asks the department to have a female veteran service officer make contact. The programme also points to military sexual trauma resources, domestic violence and abuse support, women veteran health benefits, and a women veteran licence plate, and it names twenty-five women veteran leaders each year.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

The state veterans department runs a women veterans programme with its own coordinator. The most practical thing in it is small and easy to miss: a Female VSO Support Request form, which asks the department to have a female veteran service officer make contact. The programme also points to military sexual trauma resources, domestic violence and abuse support, women veteran health benefits, and a women veteran licence plate, and it names twenty-five women veteran leaders each year.

What it's worth: A women veterans coordinator, a request form for a female veteran service officer, and signposted routes for military sexual trauma and domestic abuse

  • The department states the programme is designed to provide women veterans access to services and resources and to build a community of shared experience.
  • The department describes the programme as developing rather than fully built out.
  • A women veterans coordinator is available to assist.
  • A Female VSO Support Request form allows a woman veteran to ask that a veteran service officer make contact.
  • The programme page points to women veteran specific resources and organisations, federal women’s health benefits information, domestic violence and abuse support, and military sexual trauma resources.
  • The programme page points to a women veteran licence plate option and to the national military women’s memorial.
  • The department honours twenty-five women veteran leaders annually; twenty-five were selected for 2026.
  • The department page read this session showed no upcoming women veterans events scheduled.

Who is entitled to it

  • 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.

From what you have told us so far, you appear to qualify.

How to claim it

  1. 1If the sex of the person taking your claim matters to you, use the Female VSO Support Request form rather than the general contact route. That is what it exists for, and asking on a general form gets you the next adviser in the queue.
  2. 2Say up front if the claim involves military sexual trauma. The programme signposts MST resources specifically, and a service officer who knows before the appointment can prepare the evidence route rather than improvising in the room.
  3. 3Ask the coordinator directly what is running now. The department describes the programme as developing, so what is available this year is a question to ask rather than to assume from the page.
  4. 4Nominate someone, or accept a nomination, for the annual twenty-five women veteran leaders recognition. It is one of the few visible routes into the state’s women veteran network.
  5. 5Ask about the women veteran licence plate while you are in touch — it is listed on the same page and it is the cheapest thing on it to act on.
Form
Female VSO Support Request form, or contact the women veterans coordinator
File with
The state department of veterans affairs
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
Known gapWhether the programme has a statutory basis, and what that statute requires of it, could not be established. The General Assembly’s statute server refused a fetch at the network layer and a browser navigation outright this session. Everything above is the department describing its own programme.
Worth knowingThe department’s own words are that the programme is developing. Treat the page as a list of doors to knock on rather than a list of services with a service standard behind them.

Sources

Why only one source type: The department runs the programme and its own page is the only description of it read this session. The General Assembly’s statute server refused every request, so the statutory basis for a women veterans division could not be read and is not asserted here.

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