Veterans Resources
Use the GI Bill® Comparison Tool to lookup current amounts and calculate your benefits.
The California Veterans Resource Book assists you with accessing the wide variety of services and benefits available to Veterans and family members. This resource book includes detailed information about getting a driver license Veteran designation on page 21, along with much more. Please use it – and share it – to learn more about Veterans benefits available from local, state, and federal governments and how you may access them.
PTSD Coach App - Click Here to download
The PTSD Coach app can help you learn about and manage symptoms that often occur after trauma. Features include:
- Reliable information on PTSD and treatments that work
- Tools for screening and tracking your symptoms
- Convenient, easy-to-use tools to help you handle stress symptoms
- Direct links to support and help
- Always with you when you need it
Need a copy of your DD-214 for employment or educational purposes? It’s official; DD-214s are now online. Click to request your DD-214 now.
591 West Main Street
Quincy, CA 95971
Phone: (530) 283-5515
Fax: (530) 283-3539
The PTSD Coach app is a digital resource provided by the National Center for PTSD aimed at helping veterans learn more about and manage their symptoms of PTSD from anywhere. Through the PTSD Coach app you are able to:
- use the built-in coping tools when you are feeling upset or stressed
- create your own support network
- track your progress to see if symptons are approving
The PTSD Coah app is available to download for iPhone and Android users.
Learn what the VA can do for you! VA can support you and your loved ones in different ways throughout your life. Your VA Welcome Kit provides a broad overview of services such as your:
- Benefits – understand how VA can meet your needs;
- Eligibility – understand more about it and how it affects your VA benefits;
- Disability Rating – understand how your disability rating affects your eligibility;
- Journey – see how VA can support you throughout your life;
- Checklist – learn about ways to access the benefits and services you deserve;
- Emergency Resources – find mental health resources and access immediate care
Veterans Crisis Line
The Veterans Crisis Line connects Veterans in crisis and their families and friends with qualified, caring Department of Veterans Affairs responders through a confidential toll-free hotline, online chat, or text. Veterans and their loved ones can call 1-800-273-8255 and Press 1, chat online, or send a text message to 838255 to receive confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
Some key elements of the Guide to Getting Hired include: job search tools for Veterans, unique job search challenges and opportunities for Vets job searching, various vocational rehab programs for Vets and a whole lot more!
Looking for a Job?
Check out the State Vocational Rehabilitation Services for Veterans with Disabilities
Date: 2nd, 3rd and 4th Wednesday of Each Month
Time: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Sacramento VA Medical Center Women's Health Clinic | Directions
To schedule an appointment, please contact Rebecca Stallworth at (916) 366-5453.
Wells Fargo’s Emergency Grant Program helps veterans already enrolled in post-secondary education meet their household expenses when faced with unexpected financial setbacks. Ranging up to $1,000, these immediate, one-time grants will ensure that recipients are able to stay in school without creating undue financial hardship for themselves or their families.
If you know of alumni who pursued a military career after graduation, they can start taking advantage of these programs right away! Applications for the Wells Fargo Veterans Scholarship are open until February 28, 2020; applications for emergency grants will stay open on an ongoing basis while funds are available. Both programs are accessible via wellsfargovets.scholarsapply.org -- please take a moment to share the link with veterans, military families and relevant student organizations in your community. Thank you!
The Wells Fargo Veterans Scholarship Program provides scholarships up to $7,000 per 
year, to fill gaps for veterans and the spouses of disabled veterans after military benefits and other grants and scholarships have been utilized. To ensure that recipients can focus on completing their degree, these scholarships will be renewable, and award amounts will grow by $1,000 each year.
Application status: Closed
Click "Notify Me" to be notified when the program opens.
The WVA mission is to empower women that have served or are currently serving through networking, career and professional development, and mentorship.
The goals of Women Veterans Alliance are:
- Equip women with the tools to pursue a rewarding career
- Empower those women who want to become entrepreneurs
- Encourage women veteran through Mentorship to include young women that want to join the military
- Strengthen the sisterhood bond between women veterans
- Develop and Maintain strong community of women veteran supporters
- Educate the community that Women that have served are Veterans
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
810 Vermont Avenue
NW Washington DC 20420
Toll Free: 1 (800) 827-1000
Click here to find another VA Office Location
California Department of Veterans Affairs
2811 W. California Avenue
Fresno, CA 93706
Phone: (559) 493-4400
Plumas County Veterans Service Office
270 County Hospital Road #206
Quincy, CA 95971
Phone: (530) 283-6275
Plumas County Library in collaboration with Brainfuse JobNow/VetNow provides help to job seekers, veterans, and their families with everything from live job coaching, real-time interview practice, full-service resume lab, 24/7 access to local job resources, resume assistance, skill building, academic assistance, and more, as well as veteran specific personalized assistance from a VA navigator to learn more about your eligibility for VA benefits and access local and nationwide resources in education, employment, housing, and healthcare. Please Note: You will need a library card to access this https://www.plumascounty.us
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