Veterans
Service, coming home and support for veterans and their families. 33 guides in 8 groups.
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Life after service
- Veterans: coming home & life after serviceYou served. Now let others stand with you. Coming home is a big change, and you don’t have to make it alone.⏱ 10 min
📝 3› - Veterans: purpose & work after serviceThe uniform comes off, but the skills, values and drive to serve stay with you. Here is how to find your next mission.⏱ 5 min
📝 3› - Who am I without the uniform?The uniform came off, but the person who wore it is still here. You get to decide who they become next.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - Veterans: everyday copingSmall, steady steps add up. Here are tools you can use today to calm your body, sleep better and get through the hard moments.⏱ 8 min
📝 4› - Veterans: family & partnersService changes a whole family. With patience, honest talk and the right support, you can find your way back to each other.⏱ 6 min
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Military families
- Military spouses & partnersYou serve too, in your own way. Your goals, your friendships and your wellbeing matter just as much as the mission.⏱ 5 min
📝 3› - Military kids: moves, deployments & growing upMilitary kids say a lot of goodbyes and a lot of hellos. With steady love and the right support, they grow strong roots wherever they land.⏱ 5 min
📝 3› - Deployment & coming home as a familyGoodbyes, months apart and homecomings all take planning and patience. Step by step, your family can come through it closer.⏱ 5 min
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Practical help
- Understanding VA benefits & claimsYou earned these benefits through your service. Claiming them is not asking for a favor, and you don’t have to figure it out alone.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - Housing & homelessness help for veteransEveryone deserves a safe place to sleep. If your home feels shaky, help exists, and the earlier you reach out, the more doors are open.⏱ 4 min
📝 3› - Going back to school after serviceYou’ve already learned under pressure. School is a new mission, and you can shape it to fit the life you have now.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - Encouraging a veteran to get helpYou can’t make the choice for them, but your steady, respectful support can make reaching out feel possible.⏱ 6 min
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Suicide prevention
- Veteran suicide preventionYou had each other’s backs in uniform. Suicide is preventable, and one honest question, one call or one locked box can help a veteran through.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - When you’re worried about a veteran: warning signs & what to sayYou know them better than almost anyone. Trust what you notice, and know that one caring question can open the door to help.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - The first years after service: staying safe through the transitionLeaving the military is a big move. With a plan, your people and help lined up before you need it, you can land safely.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - Safe storage & time-and-distance: protecting a veteran in crisisIt isn’t about taking anything away. A lock, a key held by a friend or a little distance can carry a veteran through the worst hours to better days.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - After losing a veteran or service member to suicideTheir life and service are so much more than how they died. You don’t have to carry this loss alone: there are people who understand, and they’re ready to walk with you.⏱ 4 min
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Veteran families
- Veterans & partners: talking, trust & closenessSaying how you feel and what you need takes real courage. Step by step, you and your partner can become a team again.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - Intimacy & sexual health after serviceCloseness is part of coming home. If it feels hard right now, you are not broken, and there is a way back to each other.⏱ 4 min
📝 3› - Healing trauma across generations in military familiesWhat happened to you does not have to happen to your children. Healing can start with you, and ripple forward.⏱ 4 min
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Veterans’ different paths
- Women veteransYou served, you count, and your story matters. Care, support and a sisterhood are here for you.⏱ 4 min
📝 3› - LGBTQ+ veteransYou served with courage, sometimes while hiding who you are. You deserve respect, care and a community that sees all of you.⏱ 4 min
📝 3› - Older veteransYour service is part of a long life story. It’s never too late to find peace with it, share it, and get support.⏱ 4 min
📝 3› - National Guard & ReserveYou serve while holding down a civilian life. Your service counts, and so does your mental health.⏱ 4 min
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Veterans’ health
- TBI & blast injuries in veteransA blow, a jolt or a blast can leave invisible marks. Most people get better, and you never have to sort it out alone.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - Sleep, pain & your body after serviceYour body carried the mission. Now it deserves rest, relief and a plan that works for you.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - Alcohol & substance use after serviceIf drinking or using became a way to get through, you are not alone, and it is never too late to find a better way.⏱ 4 min
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Veterans’ trauma & care
- Veterans: PTSD & combat stressYour brain learned to keep you alive. With time and the right support, it can learn that you are safe now.⏱ 11 min
📝 3› - Combat trauma & feeling safe at homeYour mind and body learned to survive a war zone. Home can become a place where they finally get to rest.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - When PTSD shows up years laterOld memories can knock again, even decades on. It isn’t too late, and you haven’t waited too long to get help.⏱ 4 min
📝 4› - Moral injuryThe pain of a broken moral compass is real. It shows how deeply you care about right and wrong, and it can heal.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - Military sexual trauma (MST)What happened was not your fault. However long ago it was, you deserve care, and it is there for you.⏱ 5 min
📝 4› - Veterans: getting care & supportYou earned this care. Here is a clear map to find it, one step at a time.⏱ 6 min
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