Vet Center offers alternative counseling options during area flood

While recent flooding in Amarillo has forced the temporary closing of the Amarillo Vet Center on Olsen Blvd., alternative counseling options are available for Veterans.

Until the situation is resolved, Vet Center staff will continue to offer virtual services to Veterans. In addition, a Mobile Vet Center is located at the Texas Panhandle War Memorial at 4111 S. Georgia Street for in-person care.

For more information, contact the Amarillo Vet Center at 806-683-9597.

Vet Center counselors and outreach staff, many of whom are Veterans themselves, offer confidential help for Veterans, service members, and their families at no cost in a non-medical setting. Available services include counseling for needs such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the psychological effects of military sexual trauma.

Veterans and family members, who are not able to stop by the Mobile Vet Center, are encouraged to call the Vet Center Call Center at 1-877-WAR VETS (1.877.927.8387). This is an around-the-clock, free, confidential call center where Veterans and their families can call to talk about their military experience or any other issue they are facing in their readjustment to civilian life.

Veterans in crisis, or friends and family concerned about one, can always connect with caring, qualified responders at VA’s Veterans Crisis Line: 1-800-273-8255, text 838255, or www.veteranscrisisline.net.

Latreca Guthrie, Public Affairs

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