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Mental Health and Rehabilitative Services Support — Family Members Included

A statutory programme that identifies veterans and service members needing care, builds a coordinated resource plan, refers them to mental health, physical rehabilitation and other services, and monitors progress. It reaches family members in their own right, and prioritises by severity of need.

Verified August 22, 2026

What this benefit is

What it's worth: Identification, a coordinated resource plan, referral to services, and monitoring of progress

The statute directs the Department to monitor and coordinate support and to refer people to providers. It does not itself fund or deliver the treatment, so the value is coordination and access rather than a payment.
No dollar figure is claimed and none would be honest: what a participant receives depends on the services they are referred into.

Who is entitled to it

The programme reaches transitioning service members and veterans directly.
Family members are named in the statute in their own right, not as an afterthought.
Your home is in Virginia.

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

1Ask for the programme by what it does rather than by a brand name: monitoring and coordination of mental health and rehabilitative services support, with referral to providers.
2Say plainly how urgent it is and how it connects to service. The statute directs the programme to prioritise veterans "on the basis of the immediacy and severity of service needs and the likelihood that those needs are attributable to the veteran’s military service or combat experience".
3A family member can approach it directly. Family members of service members, veterans, Virginia National Guard members and Virginia residents serving in the Armed Forces Reserves are named in the statute alongside them.
4Ask for the coordinated resource plan, not just a phone number. Developing one is part of what the statute requires, as is monitoring progress toward the goals in it.
5If you are still in uniform and transitioning, you are inside the programme’s scope already — it names military service members transitioning to civilian life first.

Form: Contact the Department of Veterans Services and ask for the mental health and rehabilitative services programme
File with: The Virginia Department of Veterans Services
No renewal: Once granted it does not need renewing.

CorrectionFamily members are not incidental here. The statute lists them as a covered population alongside the service member, which means a spouse or child struggling with the consequences of someone else’s service can approach the programme in their own right.

Worth knowingThere is no discharge test and no rating test in the section. Prioritisation is by how immediate and severe the need is, and how likely it is to be attributable to military service or combat experience — a judgement about need, not a documentary gate.

Worth knowingWhat the Department owes is coordination: identifying people, building a plan, referring, and monitoring. It is not itself a treatment provider, so expect to be routed to services rather than treated by the Department.

Known gapThe Department’s own site refused retrieval this session, so the programme’s operating name, its regional offices and its intake route were not read. Approach the Department directly and ask for the programme this section establishes.

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