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Women and Minority Veterans Program — a Named Contact and an Advisory Committee

The veterans department runs a Women and Minorities Program covering outreach, advocacy and tailored support, with a named officer combining the role with service officer training. A Women Veterans Advisory Committee publishes member biographies, meeting agendas and a report to the Governor twice a year.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

The veterans department runs a Women and Minorities Program covering outreach, advocacy and tailored support, with a named officer combining the role with service officer training. A Women Veterans Advisory Committee publishes member biographies, meeting agendas and a report to the Governor twice a year.

What it's worth: A named programme contact, an advisory committee, and a published resource guide

  • The department describes a Women and Minorities Program dedicated to addressing the unique needs of underrepresented veteran groups, through outreach, advocacy and tailored support services.
  • Its stated aim is that women veterans and minority veterans have equal access to benefits, resources and opportunities.
  • The purpose of the women veterans limb is stated as ensuring women veterans understand and have access to benefits and opportunities that improve their lives, with a mission of outreach, resources, events and celebrating the legacy of women veterans.
  • The department publishes a downloadable women veterans brochure with a resource guide.
  • A named officer holds the role, combining it with service officer training duties, and is contactable by e-mail at the department’s Reno address.
  • A Women Veterans Advisory Committee supports and assists in locating, educating and advocating for women veterans, and publishes member biographies, meeting agendas and a report to the Governor twice a year.
  • The department has previously run free virtual military sexual trauma educational series in collaboration with a charitable foundation, open to women and men who are veterans, active duty, Guard, Reserves, healthcare providers, community partners and supporters.
  • The department also points at a portrait exhibit of women veterans and at an online mentoring programme connecting job-seeking veterans with a mentor.
  • No page read this session attaches a payment to the programme.

Who is entitled to it

  • The programme serves the veteran directly.
  • You served in the armed forces.
  • Your home is in Nevada.

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

  1. 1E-mail the named programme officer directly rather than the general enquiry line. The post is a single named person and the department publishes the address.
  2. 2Download the brochure with the resource guide before the first call. It is the department’s own compilation and will save a round of questions.
  3. 3Ask about the Advisory Committee if you want to influence rather than only receive. The committee publishes agendas and reports to the Governor twice a year.
  4. 4The same officer also runs service officer training, so ask to be routed to a claims appointment if the immediate need is a claim rather than outreach.
  5. 5For a military sexual trauma claim, ask what is running now. The department has run open educational series on it before and works with a charitable foundation on them.
  6. 6Note the programme covers minority veterans as well as women veterans. It is one programme with two limbs, and the department describes it that way.
Form
No form — contact the programme officer
File with
Department of Veterans Services
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
Worth knowingThe eligibility gate shown here is service, and nothing more, because service by a woman is not something this tool asks about — and the programme reaches minority veterans too, which no eligibility question here can express either.
Known gapWhether the programme or the advisory committee has any statutory footing was not established, and the department page gives no telephone line for the programme itself.

Sources

Why only one source type: The programme is the department’s own and is described on the department’s own page. No statute was reachable this session — the state statute host refused every request, to fetch and browser alike.

This finder provides an informational match, not a government eligibility determination. The responsible agency decides your application.