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Vet Centers — Here for You Every Step of the Way Dear Veterans a Message from the Network Director Veterans’ Healthy Living Michael F VA New England Healthcare System SPRING 2012 VETERANS’healthy living On Solid Ground A Veteran’s Journey Strong Heart, Strong Home Vet Centers — Here for You Every Step of the Way Dear Veterans A Message from the Network Director Veterans’ Healthy Living Michael F. Mayo-Smith, M.D., M.P.H. Editorial Board Network Director Maureen Heard VISN 1 Communications Officer Kathleen Makela VISN 1 Public Affairs Officer Spring reminds us of renewal and change—the hope for change, a vision for change, and the choice to make a change! Sally Riley VISN 1 Communications Specialist You made a choice to serve in the Armed Forces and made sacrifices to keep our country and everything it represents safe. Today it is our Diane Keefe turn to serve you, by providing exceptional health care focused on VA Boston HCS, Public Affairs Officer your individual needs, and your overall well-being. We are here for you John Paradis every step of the way! VA CW Massachusetts HCS, Public Affairs Officer On page 3, “On Solid Ground,” is the poignant story about Veteran Pamela Redmond Gerry Maguire who, with help from the VA Medical Center in Bedford, VA Connecticut HCS, Public Affairs Officer arose from physical, mental, emotional, and homeless challenges in Website: www.newengland.va.gov his life to begin again and obtain his college degree. On pages 4 and 5, the article, “Strong Heart, Strong Home,” serves Veterans’ Healthy Living is published as a patient education service by VA New as a reminder that you, as a Veteran, are not alone. Our VA Boston England Healthcare System. The publication Healthcare System “Strength At Home” programs are there to help is intended to provide information to help you maintain good health and learn about you and your spouse or partner enhance relationships, improve anger the many health services available through management skills, and prevent conflict within intimate relationships. VA. This publication is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice, The programs were created to target the areas of counseling, training, which should be obtained from your VA and support for Veterans. healthcare provider. All articles may be reproduced for educational purposes. Page 6, “Vet Centers – Here for You Every Step of the Way,” focuses on our Vet Centers, what they provide and how they work together with our medical centers. Warming temperatures and blooming flowers and trees tell us change is coming. You may be considering making some changes yourself such as planting a garden and thinking “green.” “A Growth of Opportunities” on page 7 is an article about the VA Medical Center at Leeds, which is well-known and recognized for its horticulture therapy for Veterans. In September, 2011 the VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System held Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Rain Garden training that included the installation of the first rain garden at the VA Medical Center. Be sure to check out the article on page 7, “Play it Safe with Home Oxygen Use” and read about important tips and reminders on oxygen safety in the home. Thank you for your service. Now let us serve you! VA Mission: Michael F. Mayo-Smith, M.D., M.P.H. Honor America’s Veterans Network Director by providing exceptional health care that improves 2 Veterans’ Healthy Living their health and well-being. VA New England Healthcare System | Spring 2012 Veteran Gerry Maguire, using VA services to get his life back on track. Gerry Maguire, Veteran, business owner, and proud father of three had a wonderful life until he started experiencing back pain and was forced to undergo surgery. Diagnosed with degenerative joint disease, he said, “I woke one morning to find I could not stand on my own two feet and fell to the floor.” On Solid Ground: A Veteran’s Journey Unable to work, Gerry looked thoughts of his children that “Suddenly, I had a job!” Along into collecting workers’ saved him. with employment assistance, compensation, which he had Gerry was set up with housing. always paid into, only to find “On the advice of a fellow “I entered into the Housing that he didn’t qualify for the Veteran, I went to the Bedford and Urban Development/VA benefits. This left Gerry without VA Medical Center, just to talk Supported Housing program in an income and overwhelmed to someone,” said Gerry. At the July 2008 and used my VASH with financial obligations. In a hospital, in tears and unable to voucher to obtain housing. I short time, he lost his business, speak, he was approached by a have been able to provide a good had his truck repossessed, and nurse who began simply with, home for my children and myself was evicted from his apartment. “Are you okay?” ever since.” Without a home, Gerry was forced to surrender custody Realizing Gerry was in crisis, Overcoming all obstacles, of his three children to their the nurse quickly connected Gerry obtained a college degree mother, which was the toughest him with a social worker and that came “four years after I and most heartbreaking of all the Homeless Coordinator, who found the courage to ask for his trials and tribulations. was, “a young, petite, button help.” With both feet firmly on of a woman, who I would learn the ground and his head held “I began having thoughts that later could move mountains,” high, Gerry offers this valuable maybe my children would be Gerry related. message for others: better off if I were not among the living,” he said. Alone, Gerry received emergency funds, “Please ask for help! You may feeling helpless, and full of was signed up for vocational never meet the angel who saved “empty resentment,” Gerry rehabilitation, and made contact my life, but as I witnessed, she is contemplated suicide not once, with the Compensated Work part of a network of people who but twice and it was only the Therapy Manager. He said, do care. They really do care!” Thank you for your service. Now let us serve you. 3 Spring 2012 | VA New England Healthcare System Strong Heart, military couples to teach them how to manage anger, improve Strong Home their communication skills, and Stress, stressors, and trauma feelings are occurring can be deal with any post-traumatic are a part of life, and these difficult and add to the stress stress issues. challenges come in many of readjustment and transition forms. We all have stress, but for a Veteran and his or her The 12 session “Strength at upon returning home from loved ones. If negative feelings Home” program is designed to deployment, it is not unusual to and emotions are prolonged, provide in-depth counseling experience a different kind of or if it is difficult to positively support and training for male stress than what may have been communicate with others, Veterans and service members. felt on the battlefield. For some counseling with a health care These sessions focus on ways to people, seeing, experiencing, or professional could help. manage stress and anger, how learning about a traumatizing to improve communication, and event causes fear, helplessness, According to Casey Taft, Ph.D., how to strengthen relationships. or horror. at the National Center for PTSD The counselors understand in Boston, and the director the stressors of serving in the Returning Veterans often of the “Strength At Home” military and the challenges that deal with a broad range of program, the decision to develop occur in the cycle of deployment feelings and emotions such as the program four years ago was and reintegration with family anger, sadness, and anxiety. based on need. Dr. Taft has and community. The class Understanding why these been working with Veterans and focuses upon understanding 4 Veterans’ Healthy Living VA New England Healthcare System | Spring 2012 “Strength at Home” program director Dr. Casey Taft. anger and developing more are not alone. All “Strength The “Strength At Home” programs positive, non-aggressive ways of At Home” programs center on are offered at several locations communicating in relationships. enhancing relationships. throughout the VA New England Healthcare System. The goal of the 10 session To see if you and/or your “Strength at Home” couples partner are eligible for For more information, visit the website program is to help Operation enrollment in one of the Enduring Freedom/Operation www.strengthathome.com for programs, contact Strength at Iraqi Freedom military couples locations and times. Home outreach coordinator strengthen their relationships. Amy Rachiele at 857-364-4173 The classes are led by trained counselors familiar with the for a confidential screening. unique challenges military Information shared in the families face. They are designed screening process is not shared to foster communication and with any individuals, courts, or help Veterans and their families commanding officers. learn effective methods to de-escalate situations, engage in You may participate in positive communication, learn these programs at no cost. anger and stress management, Some compensation may be and increase feelings of available for participation closeness and happiness. You in these programs. Thank you for your service. Now let us serve you. 5 Spring 2012 | VA New England Healthcare System Vet Centers – Here for You Every Step of the Way Veterans returning from the they are dealing with issues that suffering from PTSD,” Busby battle front can face many chal- require medication, we refer said. “There’s a higher suicide rate lenges in readjusting to civilian them to the Medical Center.” among our soldiers now; that’s life. For young Veterans coming another reason why it is impera- home from Iraq or Afghanistan, The Vet Centers work with the tive we work together with the homelessness, unemployment, Medical Centers to screen and Medical Centers.” and Post-Traumatic Stress offer readjustment counseling, Additional services the Vet Disorder (PTSD) are higher than military sexual trauma Centers provide are Yellow the national average.
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