Helping Service Members and Their Families
We help service members and their families in Lake, McHenry and Southern Kenosha counties with care services, financial crisis help, family support, peer counseling and camaraderie, free and confidentially, regardless of discharge status.
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We have events happening often to benefit our Veterans and their families. Come enjoy a free cup-a-joe on us. Call 847-986-4622 for more information.
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Veterans Benefits Dec 2022
Table of Contents Raising Your VA Compensation Rates As the cost of living goes up, VA ensures that your benefit rates do too! Starting Jan.
Free Veterans Dinner held November 7 at JIC Community Development Center in Waukegan
A free Veterans dinner was hosted by Lake County Veterans and Family Services Foundation (LCVFSF) Waukegan “Cup-A-Joe”, the JIC Community Development Corporation, Northern Illinois Recovery
Millburn Middle School Students Learn About the Vietnam War from Veterans
For the 8th consecutive year, teacher David Schroeder has helped his Social Studies students at Milburn Middle School in Lindenhurst understand the Vietnam War in
Veterans with PTSD Do Better at the VA
The men sitting in the conference room at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) clinic in Mare Island, Calif., are all Vietnam veterans in their
Four times as many troops and vets have died by suicide as in combat, study finds
Some combat experiences — like ambushes or killing a civilian — are more closely linked to suicide, a study finds A year-long study of Iraq
2022 Veterans disability compensation rates
Review 2022 Veterans disability compensation rates. Use our compensation benefits rate tables to find your monthly payment amount. We base your monthly payment amount on
