{"id":75533,"date":"2023-12-30T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=75533"},"modified":"2023-12-30T22:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T22:24:14","slug":"veterans-treatment-court-helps-direct-veterans-to-va-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=75533","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Treatment Court helps direct Veterans to VA services"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delaware County Treatment Court Coordinator Jeremy Damia had a lot of questions about the services available for Veterans at Coatesville VA. He wanted to know about the specific resources available for Veterans at the county, state and federal levels. He made it his mission to understand the wealth of resources which best serve those Veterans.<\/p>\n

As the treatment court coordinator, Damia oversees the treatment court team cases and coordinates the referrals for Veterans to treatment resources.<\/p>\n

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Karen Chang, suicide prevention coordinator, explains how the program impacts Veterans.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

He asked Treatment Court member Lily Thomas for an orientation. Thomas is Coatesville VA\u2019s Justice Outreach coordinator for Delaware County and represents Coatesville VA on the team.<\/p>\n

Representatives from the offices of the district attorney, public defenders and probations are members of the Delaware County Veterans Treatment Court. They review Veterans\u2019 cases and make recommendations to the judge on whether the Veteran should be referred for treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a lot of questions about Coatesville VA because a lot of our Veterans in the court are service-connected, and the resources they need\u2014and are ordered to get through the court\u2014are available here on this campus,\u201d Damia said.<\/p>\n

Treatment over jail time<\/h2>\n

Thomas scheduled a special session at the medical center to explain to Damia and help refresh the other team members about the health services Coatesville VA offers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI want everyone on the team to feel comfortable about making referrals because I am often asking them to allow a Veteran to access our health care services they so desperately need in lieu of jail time,\u201d Thomas added.<\/p>\n

Having a justice outreach coordinator from VA on the team helps steer Veterans toward those resources when they are being processed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to provide treatment when it\u2019s needed for Veterans who have substance abuse disorders, PTSD or other mental health issues because we know, statistically, if you have a mental health disorder, you\u2019re more likely to become incarcerated.\u201d<\/p>\n

A full agenda of VA services<\/h2>\n

Thomas introduced Coatesville VA speakers to discuss intimate partner violence, suicide prevention, sexual trauma and how the team members serve Veterans with substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at a level of care dependent on the Veterans\u2019 needs. They explained that referrals for services may be for outpatient or inpatient services, and residential rehabilitation and treatment programs.<\/p>\n

Damia was impressed. \u201cI got a good overview of the Coatesville VA campus. I now know a lot of the terminology and the great things that are happening here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Understanding the services available and how they benefit the Veteran is likely to lead to more referral recommendations from the Treatment Court and judge, which leads to more Veterans getting the health care they need when they need it.<\/p>\n

If you or someone you love is a service member or military Veteran in crisis, call the Veterans Crisis Line<\/a> by dialing 988 then Press 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Delaware County Treatment Court Coordinator Jeremy Damia had a lot of questions about the services available for Veterans at Coatesville VA. He wanted to know about the specific resources available for Veterans at the county, state and federal levels. He made it his mission to understand the wealth of resources which best serve those Veterans. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":75535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,892],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-veterans-treatment-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75539,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75533\/revisions\/75539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}