2024 Updates

November- December - 2024
* New Prescription Refill System Coming to Military Pharmacies: What To Know
* DFAS Retiree Newsletter - ​December 2024 Retiree Newsletter
* Caregivers Requirement for Financial Service Center - (Direct Deposit) For PCAFC (No Longer Issuing Paper Checks)
* Social Security Administration simplifies SSI applications
* Cognitive Dysfunction and Multiple Sclerosis
* 2025 VA Disability Compensation Rates Increase | How to Increase VA Disability | theSITREP * South Texas Veterans Health Care System Same Day Mental Health Services
* Check the TRICARE Network Provider Directories Ahead of 2025
* VA Resources Navigator Flyer
*2025 TRICARE Health Plan Costs Changes
* 2025 Prepare for VA’s secure sign-in changes
* Understanding Veterans Exposure Team - Health Outcomes Military Exposures (VET-HOME)
* Texas/Federal Veterans Benefits and Useful Phone Numbers
* Texas Veterans Commission
* VA South Texas Health Care System Direct Scheduling Phone Numbers
* Intimate partner violence and suicide linked
* The PACT ACT – Updated Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry
* Benefits and Upgrading A Discharge - Applying for Benefits and Your Character of Discharge
* The PACT ACT – Updated Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry
* Pre-need eligibility for burial in a VA cemetery
* Care and research for Alzheimer’s and related dementias
* Geriatrics and Extended Care
* TRICARE Dental Program Premiums Decrease Effective Nov. 1
* Benefits and Upgrading A Discharge - Applying for Benefits and Your Character of Discharge
* National Institute of Mental Health
* Veterans Benefits Administration Fact Sheets

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September- October 2024
* Benefits and Upgrading A Discharge - Applying for Benefits and Your Character of Discharge
* TRICARE Dental Program Premiums Decrease Effective Nov. 1
* Geriatrics and Extended Care
* Care and research for Alzheimer’s and related dementias
* Pre-need eligibility for burial in a VA cemetery
* Military Exposures & Your Health - 2024 - Issue 14 (VA Launches the Resigned Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry)
* TRICARE Is Your Partner in Mental Health Care

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July - August 2024
* Alamo Call-A-Ride 4 Vets
* VA’s Virtual Psychotherapy Program for Caregivers
* DOD Spells Out New Requirements to Counter Blast Overpressure Risks
* Prepare for VA’s secure sign-in changes - Effective Jan 2025
* How to Calculate VA Disability Ratings | VA Math | VA Disability Calculator | theSITREP
* ProjectMend (Medical Equipment Reuse)
* UTCaregivers (Military and Veterans Caregivers)
* UTCaregivers (Caring for the Caregiver)
* TBI Warrior Foundation - Caregivers Program
* TBI Warrior Foundation
* Veterans Benefits Administration Fact Sheets

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May - June 2024
* National Institute of Mental Health
* (PCAFC) Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers - Application Process Fact Sheet
* (PCAFC) Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (Eligibility Criteria Fact Sheet)
* (PCAFC) Monthly Stipend for Primary Family Caregivers
* (PCAFC) CHAMPVA Fact Sheet
* (PCAFC) Revocation and Discharge Fact Sheet
* PTSD treatment (What services does VA provide for PTSD?)
* New mental health copayment exemptions
* Suicide Prevention - Open The Door Booklet
* Community Care Overview Information (Outside VA Care)
* Bexar County Military & Veterans Services Center Satellite Offices
* Bexar County Military & Veterans Services Center (Claims/ Survivor Benefits Education Benefits Advisement/Employment & Transition Services)
* San Antonio Coalition for Veterans & Families
* Operation Comfort Adaptive Sports
* PTSDUSA.Org You Are Not Alone Brochure
* VA Caregiver Support Respite Care Video
* Caregiver Respite Tool: Veterans Needs
* VA Caregiver Resources: Respite Care Caregiver Sheet
* Caregiver Respite Tool: Exploring Your Goals
* Rapid recovery – massed treatment for PTSD
* 2024 Outreach Pictures
* Emergency Medical Care Coverage (Outside the VA)
* Surprising Ways VA Social Workers Can Help
* Caregivers !!!!: Apply for the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers
* Vet Centers (Readjustment Counseling)
* VA Caregiver Support - Caregiver Resources (Caregiving with Children and Adolescents Guide)
* Vet Centers: No-cost counseling for military sexual trauma
* VA to expand health care coverage to Veteran family members and caregivers through CHAMPVA

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March - April 2024
* Building Better Caregivers (VA Caregiver Support)
* Military Exposures & Your Health - 2024 - Issue 12
* MILLIONS of Veterans NOW ELIGIBLE for VA Health Care | theSITREP
* Help for survivors of sexual harassment and assault
* VA Survivors Pension
* National Center for PTSD: Continuing Education (free in-depth Continuing Education resources for the Professional community concerned with trauma)
* National Center for PTSD (PTSD Consultation Program: Resources for Providers)
* What to do if a Veteran you served with is talking about suicide
* VA National Center for PTSD Provider Toolkit

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January - February 2024
* C3 - Complex Case Coordination Program (Wounded Warriors)
* The link between sexual violence and suicide
* Veterans Families United (directory of over 800 Resources)
* Wounded Warrior Project - Project Odyssey
* Military One Source - Military Spouse Employment Partnership
* Military One Source (tax services, spouse employment help, webinars and online training, relocation and deployment tools, and much more)
* Wounded Warrior Project
* Important VA Numbers (San Antonio Area)
* Bexar County Community Resources
* Is CHAMPVA for your family?
* 4 Reminders About Getting Care With TRICARE For Life
* VA Caregiver Support Program (Tips: Medications - Providers - Organization - Mobility - Transfers)
* TRICARE Pharmacy Home Delivery
* Great Oaks Recovery Center Website
* Great Oaks Recovery Center - Houston (Tactical Recovery Veteran and First Responder Program)
* What are Same Day Services in Primary Care and Mental Health?
* Employment Resources for People with Disabilities
* Safe settings and trusted care for women Veterans
* Veteran Readiness and Employment (Chapter 31)
* Hearing - Military Hearing Experts Leverage Collaboration to Advance Research, Treatments for Auditory Processing Disorder

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