VA reaches out to sexual trauma survivors via Facebook

The female veterans on the Women Veterans for Equality in our VA System Facebook page couldn’t believe what they saw. But there it was. A  Department of Veterans Affairs military sexual trauma (MST) coordinator personally assigned to helping them, answering questions directly and guiding them through what many say is a emotionally harrowing and complicated financial benefits process.


The Washington Post last month chronicled efforts, sometimes for decades, by this group to receive  financial benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder caused by sexual trauma — ranging from harassment to rape — in the military.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/02/12/a-va-claims-officer-on-facebook-department-of-veterans-affairs-reaches-out-to-survivors-of-military-sexual-trauma-in-21st-century-ways/


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