Women Veterans Program — a Named Manager as First Point of Contact
The veterans department runs a Women Veterans Program described as the first point of contact for women veterans seeking help with barriers faced during and after service, connecting them to federal and state benefits, healthcare, mentorship, education and employment resources, and to peer-support networks.
Verified August 23, 2026
What this benefit is
The veterans department runs a Women Veterans Program described as the first point of contact for women veterans seeking help with barriers faced during and after service, connecting them to federal and state benefits, healthcare, mentorship, education and employment resources, and to peer-support networks.
What it's worth: A named programme manager, individualised advocacy, and referral into benefits and care
- The department publishes a named Women Veterans Program Manager with an office address, a direct mobile number and a departmental e-mail address.
- The programme is described as the first point of contact for women veterans seeking assistance or guidance in overcoming barriers faced during and after military service.
- It works through partnerships with federal, state and community organisations and provides advocacy, outreach and individualised support.
- It connects women veterans to federal and state benefits, healthcare, mentorship, education and employment resources, and fosters peer-support networks.
- The department signposts federal women veterans healthcare, the federal centre for women veterans, mental health and vet centre counselling, the crisis line, a defence sexual assault helpline, and two women veterans mentoring networks.
- No discharge test, residency test or rating test is published for the programme.
- Nothing 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 New Mexico.
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How to claim it
- 1Contact the programme manager directly. The department publishes a direct mobile number rather than routing through a switchboard, which is unusual and worth using.
- 2Say what the barrier actually is — a claim, healthcare, housing, employment, or something that does not fit a category. The programme describes itself as individualised and as a first point of contact rather than a single service.
- 3Ask to be connected to a service officer if the need is a claim. The programme is advocacy and referral; the claim itself goes through the field services division.
- 4Ask about peer support if isolation is the problem. Fostering peer-support networks is written into the programme description, and the department names two women veterans networks.
- 5For a military sexual trauma matter, the department points at the defence sexual assault helpline alongside the federal healthcare routes.
- 6Combine it with the transport programme if getting to appointments is the obstacle — both sit inside the same department.
- Form
- No form — contact the programme manager
- File with
- Department of Veterans’ Services — Women Veterans Program
- No renewal
- Once granted it does not need renewing.
Sources
Why only one source type: The programme is the department’s own and is described on the department’s own page. The state legislature host refused every request this session, so no statutory footing could be checked.
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