Veteran Benefits Fair

What: Veterans Benefits Fair
Who: Anyone with questions about VA benefits is welcome
When: Thursday, July 27 from 3:00PM to 7:00PM
Where: Main Hospital Lobby, 508 Fulton Street, Durham, NC 27705
Why: To provide information about the services and benefits available to Veterans, caregivers, and dependents

You are invited to the Durham VA Medical Center Benefits Fair! Save the date and bring your questions.  Knowledgeable staff will be on hand to answer questions about VA benefits and services. If you are already enrolled in the VA health care system, need to enroll, or just need information for a loved one, then this is the event for you. It will be located in the front breezeway and throughout the first floor of the medical center.

The Durham VAMC is pleased to host an onsite Veterans Benefit and Community Fair this month. The primary goal of the fair is to inform our area Veterans of the wide range of benefits and services that our medical center provides as well as highlight many of the community organizations that we work in partnership with to provide a full spectrum of services to our Veterans.

The fair will include information about the following: Enrollment, Disability, Health Education, Employment, Dependant and Survivor Benefits, Women’s Health, Medical Treatment and a multitude of ancillary services that enable our Medical Center to provide exceptional health care to our Nations Veterans that improves their health and well-being.

For more information, please contact Susan Easter, Customer Service Coordinator, at (888) 878-6890, extension 5966.

Information booths include:

• Brain Injury Association of North Carolina
• Compliance Program
• Diabetes Education
• Integrated Ethics
• First in Families of North Carolina
• Enrollment and Eligibility
• Homeless Program
• Human Resources
• Veteran Benefit Fair Registration and Information
• Medical Foster Home Program
• MH-ACI Veteran and Family Team
• Military Missions in Action
• Million Veteran Program
• Minority Veterans Program
• My HealtheVet
• National Alliance on Mental Illness
• National Summer Sports Clinic
• Weight Management and Diabetes
• OIF/OEF Returning Combat Veterans
• OIF/OEF CARE TEAM
• Patient Advocacy
• Pharmacy Services
• Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Privacy Program
• Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Service
• Recovery Innovations’ Wellness City
• Project Healing Waters (Fly Fishing)
• Recreation Therapy and Bridge Sports
• Social Work Services
• Durham VA Patient Information Sessions for Veterans, their families and/or caregivers
• Healthcare Decision Day
• Speech and Pathology
• Suicide Prevention
• The Citizen Soldier Support Program
• The Durham Center
• The Office of Congressman Miller
• The Office of Congressman Price
• TROSA
• USO of North Carolina
• Veteran Health Education
• Veteran Health Education
• Help Hospitalized Veterans
• Disabled American Veterans
• Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA)
• Wake Brook Recovery Center/Wake County Human Services
• Women’s Health