VIRGINIA VETERANS RESOURCE GUIDE 2025
Meeting Veterans’ Legal Needs Virginia Veteran and Family Support, Justice Involved Services
CONFIDENTIAL SERVICES OFFERED • Pre-release comprehensive needs assessments • Care coordination services for behavioral health, rehabilitative, and supportive services • Direct linkage to treatment services for post traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury • Direct linkage to VA benefits and health care, employment, and education services • Peer support services
The Virginia Department of Veterans Services (DVS) Virginia Veteran and Family Support (VVFS) Justice Involved Services (JIS) program provides resource connections, care coordination, and support to Virginia veterans and service members involved in the criminal justice system. JIS serves veterans of any era and members of all branches of the Armed Services, National Guard, and Reserves who are Virginia residents. JIS offers assistance to those veterans and service members involved with: • Veteran and/or problem-solving treatment dockets; • Local jails and state prisons, and • Probation and/or parole supervision.
• Homeless and housing services • Outreach and education services
If you know a justice-involved veteran in need of services, please send an email or submit a VVFS Veteran Justice Client Service Request form to the VVFS Justice mailbox at justice.vvfs@dvs.virginia.gov , or call (804) 225-4734 .
Veterans Assistance and Resources Offered by the Office of the Attorney General Virginia’s Office of the Attorney General (OAG) offers the Virginia Military and Veteran Legal Resource Guide, a valuable tool to help Virginia service members, military families, and veterans understand their unique legal protections, rights, and resources available to them under the law. The guide is available at dvs.virginia.gov . In addition, the OAG offers legal services clinics to assist qualified veterans and their spouses with simple wills, powers of attorney, and advance medical directives, including notary services, on a first-come, first-served basis.
A Virginia Army National Guard soldier participates in retention flights aboard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters at Fort Barfoot, Virginia.
Contact Info: Attorney General’s Office 202 North 9th St., Richmond, VA 23219 | (804) 786-2071 To learn more about this veteran-friendly initiative, visit oag.state.va.us/citizen-resources/veterans-assistance-resources .
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