The National Veterans Service Fund
(NVSF) is a
not-for-profit organization located in
Darien, Connecticut that provides
case-managed social services and limited
medical assistance to Vietnam- and
Persian Gulf War- veterans and their
families, with a focus on families with
disabled children. All donations are
tax-deductible.
Entire
veteran families have been adversely
affected by the experience of combat and
by other war-related factors. War does
not end on the battlefield. These
families continue to suffer a high
incidence of chronic health conditions
and problems that affect the family's
physical, psychological, social and
economic well-being and productivity. In
response to a steadily growing number of
inquiries from Persian Gulf veterans, as
well as veterans of other wars, we
changed our name to better reflect the
fact that our services are provided for
all veteran families.
The
families served by NVSF have been
unable to obtain the social and health
services they so critically need from
other sources. They have fallen between
the social service system's "cracks"
mainly because of a misconception that
they and their families are taken care
of by the VA. In fact, the Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA) does not provide
services to families, except in rare
instances.
Before
NVSF, no health or social system
existed for veterans that focused on the
whole family and their struggle with a
multiplicity of problems. Existing
systems were exclusionary and
uncoordinated, often geographically
distant from the family needing service.
The traditional veterans' system
provides services to the veteran but not
the family. There has remained no
coordination between veterans' and human
services systems.
NVSF
uniquely combines family-guided case
management (service coordination) and
advocacy assistance while strengthening
business, social and community support.
Services
provided by NVSF are carefully
designed to empower families so that
they can successfully navigate different
health and social systems.
NVSF
provides an integrated program of
services managed by veterans that
include the following: a national
hotline for veterans and their families
that responds to hundreds of inquiries
each month from throughout the country;
an extensive repository of free
information on topics ranging from the
history of the Agent Orange lawsuit to
the most recent Gulf War legislation; a
special fund that offers limited
emergency economic assistance and relief
for families in crisis; business
partnerships that make it possible to
secure services and equipment at reduced
rates or at no cost for families in
need; peer counselors work with veterans
who are isolated from traditional social
services support and enable family
members to work together to determine
their own course of action to resolve
their problems.
NVSF must continue to support and
provide services to veteran families,
particularly those whose children, and
now grandchildren, have been born with
disabilities. We gratefully appreciate
your support. There is still so much to
accomplish to strengthen veterans'
families, particularly those with
children who are disabled.
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