Morano Q&A: connecting incarcerated veterans to DVS before release
Morano asks who is responsible for connecting incarcerated veterans to DVS and the VA before release. Smalls describes a veteran liaison at the Department of Corrections who connects veterans to DVS services.
So who's responsible for connecting those veterans to DVS and the VA before they leave custody?
Is that a...
So that's an example.
So at DVS, we are meeting with our providers to hear from them directly to let us know what has been working, what hasn't been working.
Department of Corrections situation or is it somebody else?
Thank you for that question.
And as an agency, as we continue having many roundtables at DVS, I've heard from many veteran groups that perhaps that this is one of the first times when the agency itself has really engaged many of the groups.
We had a veteran liaison at the Department of Corrections that will connect the veterans there to the Department of Veteran Services.
So that's an example.
So at DVS, we are meeting with our providers to hear from them directly to let us know what has been working, what hasn't been working.