# Presentation: 340031

## Long Island Vet Center

**	****	**Readjustment Counseling Service
-  		116 W Main Street
-  		Babylon, NY 11702
- 		 Phone (631) 661-3930
- 		 Fax (631) 422-5677
- 		 _[www.va.gov/rcs](http://www.va.gov/rcs)_

## What is the VA?

**- National Cemetery Administration**

**- Medical Services**

**- Vet Center**

**- Veterans Benefits Administration**

## History of Vet Centers

- There are 206 community Vet Centers established by congress in 1979 and are located in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Vet Centers serve veterans and their families by providing a continuum of quality care that adds value for veterans, families, and communities.

## Long Island Vet Center

**Long Island Vet Center**
** ****116 W Main St.**
** ****Babylon, NY 11702**
** ****(631) 661-3930**

**Bronx Vet Center**
** ****130 W. Kingsbridge         **
** ****Road, Suite 7A-13**
** ****Bronx, NY 10468**
** ****(718) 367-3500**

**Brooklyn Vet Center**
** ****25 Chapel St., Suite 604**
** ****Brooklyn, NY 11201**
** ****(718) 624-2765**

**Staten Island Vet Center**
** ****150 Richmond Terrace**
** ****Staten Island, NY 10301**
** ****(718) 816-4499 **

**Manhattan Vet Center**
** ****32 Broadway, **
** ****2nd Floor - Suite 200**
** ****New York, NY 10027**
** ****(212) 742-9591**

**Harlem Vet Center**
** ****55 West 125th St., **
**11th Floor**
** ****New York, NY 10027 **
** ****(212) 426-2200**

**Queens Vet Center**
** ****75-10B 91 Ave.**
** ****Woodhaven, NY 11421**
** ****(718) 296-2871 **

**White Plains Vet C.**
**300 Hamilton Ave., 1st fl**
**White Plains, NY 10601**
**Phone: (914) 682-6250 **

## Mission of Vet Centers

- Vet Centers serve veterans and their families by providing a continuum of quality care that adds value for veterans, families and communities.
- Care includes professional readjustment counseling, community education, outreach to special populations, the brokering of services with community agencies, and provides a key access link between the veteran and other services in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

## Vet Center Services

**	****	**** **SERVICES INCLUDE:
- Re Adjustment Counseling**	****	****	**
- Bereavement Counseling
- Counseling for PTSD
- Medical Care/Benefit Referral
- Substance Abuse Counseling
- Marital and Family Counseling
- Sexual Trauma Counseling

## Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

- War
- Stabilization Operations
- Training Accidents
- Sexual Trauma

- Experienced/Witnessed Forms of PTSD:

## Eligibility

- World War II
- Korean War
- Vietnam War
- Lebanon
- Grenada
- Panama

- Eligible veterans include those who served on active duty in direct support of or in a combat theater during

- Gulf War
- Somalia
- Bosnia
- Kosovo
- Afghanistan
- Iraq

## Confidentiality

- Your records and all services you receive with the Vet Center are protected by confidentiality and are not revealed to anyone outside of VA without written authorization (Privacy Act, 1975).

## Long Island Vet Center

- Village of Babylon

## Long Island Vet Center

- Staff

## Long Island Vet Center

**Long Island Vet Center**

- Recreation Room

## Driving Directions to Long Island Vet Center

## Vet Center Website   www.VetCenter.va.gov

## Long Island Vet Center

**	****	**Readjustment Counseling Service
-  		116 W Main Street
-  		Babylon, NY 11702
- 		 Phone (631) 661-3930
- 		 Fax (631) 422-5677
- 		 _[www.va.gov](http://www.va.gov/)_