Resources

24/7 confidential crisis support for veterans and their families via call, text, or chat.

Helps: Veterans in immediate emotional crisis or suicidal distress.

Comprehensive medical, dental, and preventive care for enrolled veterans nationwide.

Helps: Veterans with honorable discharge needing primary care.

Job training and employment placement for veterans experiencing homelessness.

Helps: Veterans currently homeless or at imminent risk.

Free career coaching, resume help, and job placement for veterans and military spouses.

Helps: Transitioning service members and unemployed veterans.

Free confidential mental health counseling from licensed providers in your area.

Helps: Veterans, service members, and families needing therapy.

Free legal aid resources covering benefits appeals, discharge upgrades, and family law.

Helps: Low-income veterans needing civil legal help.

VA-funded high-tech training (coding, data, IT) with housing stipend, no GI Bill cost.

Helps: Veterans with at least 1 day of GI Bill remaining.

Emergency financial assistance, transitional housing, and family support programs.

Helps: Military families in financial crisis.

Free mental health counseling for service members, veterans, and their families. Focused on overcoming trauma, transition stress, and military-related challenges.

Helps: Active duty, veterans, and military families needing no-cost therapy in Hampton Roads.

Connects transitioning service members, veterans, and military spouses with jobs, entrepreneurship support, and career coaching across the Southside.

Helps: Veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses seeking employment.

Peninsula-based career hub helping veterans, military spouses, and transitioning service members access employment, entrepreneurship, and support resources.

Helps: Veterans, student veterans, and military spouses on the Peninsula seeking jobs.

Single point of contact connecting veterans and military families to housing, healthcare, employment, legal, and financial resources across Hampton Roads.

Helps: Veterans, active duty, and families needing navigation across multiple resource needs.

Veteran-owned staffing and recruiting agency placing candidates in technical, engineering, and government contract roles across Hampton Roads.

Helps: Veterans and technical professionals seeking IT, engineering, or contract employment.

Full-service VA medical center providing primary care, specialty care, mental health, and inpatient services to veterans across Hampton Roads.

Helps: Enrolled veterans needing primary, specialty, or mental health care.

Combines HUD housing vouchers with VA case management and clinical services for homeless veterans and their families.

Helps: Homeless veterans needing permanent supportive housing.

Online directory of veteran services, organizations, and providers across the Hampton Roads region.

Helps: Veterans and families looking for local services across multiple categories.

Searchable directory of veteran-owned businesses operating in the Hampton Roads region.

Helps: Consumers and partners seeking to support veteran-owned businesses.

Federal directory of vetted resources for wounded warriors, service members, veterans, and their families across all 50 states.

Helps: Veterans and families needing nationwide resource navigation.

Veteran-owned IT and technical services firm serving Hampton Roads businesses and government clients.

Helps: Organizations seeking veteran-owned IT services and technical staffing.

Veteran-owned IT services provider offering managed IT, cybersecurity, and consulting in Hampton Roads.

Helps: Small businesses and organizations needing veteran-owned IT support.

Nonprofit providing community support, outreach, and resource connection for veterans and underserved families in Hampton Roads.

Helps: Veterans and families needing community-based support and advocacy.

Veteran-owned security and law enforcement services firm operating across Hampton Roads.

Helps: Organizations and events needing veteran-owned security services.

Provides free and discounted tickets to sporting events, concerts, performing arts, and family activities for currently-serving military and veterans. Members pay only a small delivery fee.

Helps: Veterans, active duty, Guard/Reserve, and immediate family seeking shared experiences.

Free lifetime pass granting access to more than 2,000 federal recreation sites including national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges. Available to veterans and Gold Star families.

Helps: Veterans and Gold Star families wanting outdoor access nationwide.

Long-distance outdoor expeditions (hiking, paddling, biking) that help combat veterans transition from their wartime experiences. Provides full gear, supplies, and trail support.

Helps: Combat veterans seeking nature-based decompression and peer connection.

Free fly-fishing instruction, outings, and equipment for disabled veterans and active military as part of physical and emotional rehabilitation. Local programs operate at VA hospitals and community sites nationwide.

Helps: Disabled veterans and active military seeking therapeutic recreation.

National network of adaptive sports programs for athletes with physical disabilities, including wounded veterans. Connects participants to local clubs, competitions, and Paralympic pathways.

Helps: Veterans with physical disabilities seeking sports and competition.

Builds veteran health and connection through local fitness, social, and community service activities. Active chapters host running, hiking, yoga, and volunteer events year-round.

Helps: Veterans, families, and supporters wanting community and physical activity.

Empowers veterans to continue serving through community impact projects, service platoons, and fellowships. Local platoons tackle education, food security, and neighborhood revitalization.

Helps: Veterans seeking purpose-driven volunteer service after the military.

Free, confidential, and stigma-free mental health treatment for post-9/11 veterans, service members, and families. Care is delivered by vetted clinicians with no insurance or VA paperwork required.

Helps: Post-9/11 veterans, active duty, and families needing trauma-informed therapy.

National network of clinics offering low-to-no-cost mental health care for post-9/11 veterans and their families. Services include individual, couples, and family therapy in person and via telehealth.

Helps: Post-9/11 veterans and military families needing accessible therapy.

Provides personalized suicide-prevention case management for service members and veterans at elevated risk. Care coordinators connect clients to clinical care, benefits, and stabilization resources.

Helps: Service members and veterans struggling with suicidal ideation or crisis risk.

Provides financial assistance grants and support services to post-9/11 veterans and military families facing hardship. Grants cover housing, utilities, and basic needs.

Helps: Post-9/11 veterans and families facing financial crisis.

Provides direct financial, mental health, and recovery support for combat-wounded, critically ill, and catastrophically injured service members and veterans of all branches. Programs include integrative wellness, family retreats, and education grants.

Helps: Wounded, ill, and injured service members and veterans plus families.

Provides personal and financial assistance to wounded, ill, and injured service members, veterans, and their families. Programs cover bills, transportation, and morale needs during recovery.

Helps: Wounded warriors and families in financial need during recovery.

Provides mortgage-free smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans and pays off mortgages for Gold Star and fallen first-responder families. Also operates programs to end veteran homelessness.

Helps: Catastrophically injured veterans, Gold Star families, and homeless veterans.

Connects homeless and at-risk veterans with local service providers and advocates for federal policy improvements. Operates a national resource hotline for veterans seeking housing help.

Helps: Homeless or at-risk veterans needing local provider referrals.

Faith-based national nonprofit providing housing, supportive services, and reentry programs for veterans, including SSVF rapid rehousing and transitional housing. Local affiliates serve communities across the country.

Helps: Veterans facing homelessness, reentry, or housing instability.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation program offering hiring fairs, fellowship programs, and career training for transitioning service members, veterans, and military spouses. Corporate Fellowship Program places candidates in 12-week paid private-sector roles.

Helps: Transitioning service members, veterans, and military spouses entering the civilian workforce.

Free professional certification training program from Syracuse University's IVMF for service members, veterans, and military spouses. Tracks include IT, project management, customer service, and business operations.

Helps: Service members, veterans, and spouses preparing for civilian careers.

Free career-readiness program that prepares transitioning service members and veterans for meaningful careers through cohort-based coaching and corporate networking. Programs run in major cities and online.

Helps: Transitioning service members and veterans seeking career direction.

National nonprofit supporting student veterans through more than 1,500 campus chapters, scholarships, and advocacy. Connects veterans pursuing higher education with peer support and career resources.

Helps: Veterans currently enrolled or planning to enroll in college.

Free academic boot camps preparing enlisted veterans and transitioning service members for success at four-year colleges. Programs cover humanities, STEM, and business at top universities.

Helps: Enlisted veterans and transitioning service members pursuing undergraduate degrees.

National entrepreneurship community providing programming, mentorship, and networking for veteran and military-spouse business owners. Programs include CEOcircle, Breaking Barriers, and Veterans in Residence.

Helps: Veteran and military-spouse entrepreneurs at any stage.

Provides free legal representation and education to veterans and their families on benefits claims, discharge upgrades, and class-action litigation. Trains lawyers nationwide to expand pro bono veteran legal aid.

Helps: Veterans needing legal help with benefits denials, appeals, or discharge upgrades.

Programs, peer networks, and respite resources for caregivers of wounded, ill, or injured veterans.

Helps: Spouses, parents, and family members caring for a wounded veteran.

Free 24/7 confidential counseling, family services, financial coaching, and transition support funded by the DoD.

Helps: Service members, recently transitioned veterans (up to 365 days), and families.

Community-building, spouse career programs, and family events that strengthen military and veteran families.

Helps: Military and veteran families seeking community and connection.

Free lodging at homes near major military and VA medical centers so families can stay close during a loved one's hospitalization.

Helps: Families of service members and veterans receiving inpatient medical care.

VA specialists help justice-involved veterans in jails, courts, and law enforcement encounters connect to VA treatment and benefits.

Helps: Veterans involved with the criminal justice system.

Information, training, and locator for Veterans Treatment Courts that divert vets from incarceration into treatment.

Helps: Justice-involved vets and the attorneys/families helping them find a VTC.

Advocacy, peer support, and policy work focused on the unique needs of service women and women veterans.

Helps: Active-duty service women and women veterans.

Childcare assistance, emergency financial aid, and professional development grants for women veterans.

Helps: Women veterans and their children.

Holistic support for women veterans across homelessness prevention, wellness retreats, and empowerment programs.

Helps: Women veterans needing connection, wellness, or stabilization.

Executive-style transition program for U.S. Special Operations Forces translating military careers into private-sector success.

Helps: Transitioning SOF service members and recent SOF veterans.

Helps transitioning service members and veterans continue serving through national service roles like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps.

Helps: Vets seeking purpose-driven service roles after the military.

Coaching and navigation services helping veterans clarify identity, purpose, and next-step opportunities.

Helps: Veterans struggling with post-service identity or direction.

Therapeutic recreation and adaptive outdoor programs for veterans and families recovering from trauma.

Helps: Veterans, families, and survivors of trauma seeking healing through the outdoors.

No-cost wilderness expeditions that help veterans and active-duty members renew connections to themselves, family, and community.

Helps: Post-9/11 vets and service members seeking reset and connection.

Free outdoor trips and advocacy connecting service members, veterans, and families to nature.

Helps: Service members, vets, and families wanting outdoor experiences.

Nonprofit network providing credit counseling, debt management, and financial education — including a dedicated military program.

Helps: Veterans and families managing debt or rebuilding credit.

Free financial coaching, credit improvement, small business and homeownership programs.

Helps: Veterans and families building financial stability.

Nonprofit credit counseling, debt management plans, housing counseling, and financial education.

Helps: Veterans and families overwhelmed by debt or housing payments.

Largest nonprofit provider of veteran housing and supportive services — transitional and permanent housing, employment, and counseling.

Helps: Homeless or at-risk veterans needing wraparound support.

Safe and suitable housing for homeless women veterans and their children through transitional homes and emergency assistance.

Helps: Homeless women veterans, with or without children.

Holistic services across clinical health & wellness, sports & recreation, transition, and family support.

Helps: Post-9/11 service members, vets, families, and survivors.

Higher-ed institute offering career training, entrepreneurship programs (EBV, V-WISE), and research for the military-connected community.

Helps: Vets, transitioning service members, and military spouses pursuing careers or business ownership.

Grants and resources supporting veteran and military spouse small business owners.

Helps: Veteran and military spouse entrepreneurs.

National veterans service organization offering benefits claims help, emergency grants, and a nationwide network of posts.

Helps: Combat-deployed veterans seeking community, advocacy, or claims help.

Largest wartime veterans service organization with accredited service officers, family programs, and a nationwide post network.

Helps: Wartime-era veterans seeking advocacy, claims help, and community.

Free programs in mental health, career counseling, and long-term rehabilitative care for post-9/11 wounded veterans. Connects warriors and families to peer support and benefits navigation.

Helps: Post-9/11 veterans wounded, ill, or injured during service and their caregivers.

Local fitness, social, and service events that connect veterans to their communities through physical and social activity. Free to join nationwide.

Helps: Veterans seeking community, fitness, and a sense of belonging post-service.

Mobilizes veterans to serve communities by deploying disaster response teams. Provides training, leadership, and renewed purpose through service.

Helps: Veterans seeking purpose, leadership opportunities, and disaster relief experience.

24/7 emotional support, peer mentoring, and grief care for the families of fallen military members. Includes seminars, camps, and casework.

Helps: Surviving family members and loved ones of fallen service members.

Rapid Response Referral Program connects post-9/11 veterans 1-on-1 with case managers for benefits, mental health, and crisis support.

Helps: Post-9/11 veterans needing personalized navigation across VA and community resources.

Direct financial grants and lifetime support for combat-wounded, critically ill, or injured service members from all branches and their families.

Helps: Post-9/11 service members with combat injuries, serious illness, or traumatic events.

State agency providing claims assistance, education benefits, mental health (Virginia Veteran & Family Support), and employment support to Virginia veterans.

Helps: Virginia veterans and family members navigating VA benefits and state services.

Free care coordination for behavioral health, rehabilitation, and supportive services for Virginia veterans, National Guard, and families.

Helps: Virginia veterans and families dealing with PTSD, TBI, depression, or transition stress.

State program that certifies Virginia employers committed to hiring veterans and connects job-seeking vets to V3-certified companies.

Helps: Virginia veterans and transitioning service members seeking employment.

Emergency financial assistance, transitional housing, and family support programs serving military families nationwide, including throughout Virginia.

Helps: Active-duty, Guard/Reserve, and recently separated veterans facing financial hardship.

Local Hampton Roads coalition connecting veterans to housing, employment, and peer support across the seven cities.

Helps: Veterans living in or relocating to the Hampton Roads region.

Banking, insurance, and investment services built for the military community, with VA loans, member discounts, and financial education.

Helps: Service members, veterans, and eligible family members managing money or buying a home.

Member-owned credit union serving the military community with checking, auto, mortgage, and VA loan products plus financial counseling.

Helps: Service members, veterans, DoD civilians, and eligible family members.

Dedicated military hiring program with corporate, operations, and AWS roles, plus a SkillBridge fellowship for transitioning service members.

Helps: Transitioning service members, veterans, and military spouses seeking corporate or ops roles.

Free 17-week tech training (cloud, cybersecurity, software dev) for transitioning service members and veterans, with a Microsoft hiring interview at completion.

Helps: Transitioning service members and veterans pivoting into tech careers.

Free Salesforce training, certifications, and direct hiring pathways for service members, veterans, and military spouses.

Helps: Veterans and military spouses pursuing Salesforce admin, developer, or consulting careers.

Active military hiring pipeline for retail, supply chain, and corporate roles, plus a 10% military discount for service members and veterans.

Helps: Veterans and military spouses seeking retail, logistics, or corporate jobs.

Engineering, cyber, and program management roles with a dedicated military recruiting team and SkillBridge internships.

Helps: Transitioning service members and veterans with technical, cleared, or leadership backgrounds.

Auto, motorcycle, and property insurance with military-specific discounts, deployment savings, and a dedicated military service center.

Helps: Service members and veterans seeking discounted insurance and deployment-friendly policies.