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Once a week, Veterans Affairs (VA) sends Veterans Justice Outreach Coordinators to the jails to assist veterans with their benefits. However, there are a fraction of incarcerated female veterans in comparison to the males and so the Coordinators don’t make a trip to the separate women’s facility. Therefore female veterans often go weeks at a time before seeing someone from the VA, if at all. Currently the women veterans who are incarcerated at the Las Colinas Detention facility have all experienced combat trauma and/or MST during their time in service. As a result all of them had disassociated themselves from the military. Disassociation of military service is one of the leading reasons female veterans are not seeking the free, available help for their service related traumas. Because of women’s disassociation from military service they fail to recognize the benefits that are available to them. This is why it is absolutely imperative that Veteran Advocates reach out to female veterans and make sure to make contact with them while they are in jail. This type of outreach will help reduce recidivism in female veterans and ultimately allow the female veterans to become successful in the civilian world and gain the recognition they deserve. Veteran jail programs are an excellent example of the difference between the needs of female veterans compared to their male counterparts. In San Diego County, the Sheriff’s Department created and developed the “Veterans Moving Forward” program within the Vista Detention facility. This is an exceptional program designed to address the needs and issues of veterans who are incarcerated. The problem with this program is that only male
veterans have access to it. There is no identical or comparable program available to female veterans who are incarcerated. As there is no program for any female veterans in jail WoVEN aims to visit the female veterans in Las Colinas once a week to help those female veterans re-associate with their military service and be made aware of the benefits available to them as veterans. In fact, WoVEN’s She’s Worth It program is the first and only program offered for women veterans incarcerated in the state of California. Today, only about .5% of the American population volunteers for military service. These men and women are heroes and each one of them deserves recognition and assistance in combating those traumas experienced during service. WoVEN will keep pushing until the very last female veteran receives the same treatment and assistance that her male counterpart so readily receives.
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