Veteran Advocacy
who is there for them?

• Claims Partnership Program
  American Heroes Return (AHR) and Veterans' Advocacy Services (VAC), both non-profit 501(c)3 veteran support organizations, are partnering to enhance nationally the very successful 90 day claim and claims appeals process that VAC implements has used with more than 100 veterans.
  
  Together, VAC and AHR are developing a donor funded program that continues to offer these initial claim services at NO COST TO THE VETERAN by introducing a donor and recipient relationship model wherein donors will actually have an opportunity to know, personally, who their gift assisted as well as offer the veteran an opportunity to continue that relationship into the future.
   
  This is seen as a valuable community partnership program that extends financial gifts into the gift of personal relationship, a relationship that the veteran can integrate as a part of their day-to-day communication support and trust system. Healing comes not just from dollars, but in having a advocate as a part of that relationship as well.
   
• Veterans Patient Advocacy Corps
  Alone. There is nothing more dangerous, unsettling, and counter-productive for a veteran than to arrive at a hospital emergency room alone. This is not an indictment of the hospital emergency room staff or setting, it is only a recognition that any individual who is in a crisis situation is safer and better served when they are not alone in such a circumstance.
   
  Our Veterans Administration Medical Centers are some of the finest institutions in our country. At the same time, a veteran who is brought to, admitted to, or otherwise uses the services of an emergency room or emergency clinic is rarely in a position to immediate liaison, on their behalf and with their interest at the forefront, with the medical team and support staff. They MUST have an advocate who has no official relationship with the treating facility.