VA Programs
This general principle of mental health services at the VA is in line with the VA's commitment to patient-centered care.
What is a focus on recovery, or recovery oriented approach?
This is the source of funding for most non-VA CMHC's.
What is the state or DHS block grants?
The full name of this program that provides residential, integrative, and holistic treatment in a therapeutic community approach to treatment for often chronic, comorbid problems of substance use, mental illness, unemployment, and homelessness.
What is the Pscyhosocial Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program (PRRTP)?
What is "beliefs".
X experienced trauma in childhood and is experiencing PTSD symptoms as a result. X will most likely receive treatment from this VAMC program.
What is the mental health clinic?
Under this program, the VA awards grants to private, non-profit organizations (e.g. the Salvation army) to assist veterans by providing limited funding to assist veterans in obtaining housing or to prevent Veterans from being evicted.
What is Supportive Services for Veteran and Families (SVFF)?
Co-located, collaborative care within Patient Aligned Care Teams describes this guiding principal of mental health services at the VA.
What is Primary care/Mental Health integration (PCMHI)?
Pavlov observed symptoms of this disorder in his dogs after his laboratory was flooded?
What is PTSD?
DAILY DOUBLE-Pavlov was awarded the Nobel Prize for his research on what subject?Y receives mental health services at the VA for a serious mental illness. Y is able to manage his symptoms so well while on medication that he feels he no longer needs it. Y stops taking his medication and his symptoms get so bad that he needs to go to the hospital. This has happened four times in the last year. In order to reduce incidence of hospitalization and to help manage his medication, this program could help Y.
Services in the community are important for to these people the VA often cannot serve.
This program includes VJO, HUD/VASH, GPD, and outreach assessments with inreach service linkage.
What is Health Care for Homeless Veterans, or HCVC?
Instead of saying that a Veteran is schizophrenic, you say that they have shizophrenia. This is an example of what important recovery concept.
Person first language.
A veteran has been couch surfing for the last three years, but is ready to get their own home. The would qualify for this type of housing assistance.
What is SSVF, or Supported Services for Veteran and Family.
The clean needles program and housing first are this type of public health intervention.
What is harm reduction?
This welfare benefit will have additional work requirements starting at the beginning of next year.
What is the supplemental nutrition assistance program, or SNAP?
Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E), sometimes referred to as the Chapter 31 program, provides services to eligible Servicemembers and Veterans with service-connected disabilities to help them prepare for, obtain, and maintain suitable employment or achieve independence in daily living. VR&E is delivered through this branch of the VA.
What is the Veterans Benefits Administration?