Veterans Services

Dear Tribal Veterans,
 

My name is Ronald Peterson I have been appointed the Lac Du Flambeau Tribal Veterans Service Officer (TVSO). The Tribal Veterans Service Office is intended to help Tribal Veterans access and use VA benefits and services to better their health and life. A State Grant and Tribal Grant fund the Lac Du Flambeau Veteran Service Office. I am available 40 hours per week at the Lac Du Flambeau Veterans Building. The mission is to advocate within the Community for Veterans, their dependents, and survivors. To help them find services to obtain healthcare, education, employment, financial help, and many other services from state and federal resources.

What do you need to be eligible for TVSO assistance?

1. Military Service (Character; Type; Duration)
2. Wisconsin State Residency 

To be eligible for Wisconsin state veterans’ benefits, programs, and services, a veteran’s service, as characterized on the military discharge certificate (i.e., DD Form 214) must have been honorable, under honorable conditions, or general under honorable conditions. Veterans with characterizations of uncharacterized, bad conduct, other than honorable or dishonorable can seek to have their discharge upgraded through the military appeals process. Veterans may request a hearing to have the VA decide their case. Most veterans who follow this process and become eligible for general federal VA benefits will also be granted eligibility for Wisconsin state benefits.

Mental Health Offered at the Veterans Service Office

The Lac Du Flambeau Family Resource Center will be providing Mental Health Services at the Lac Du Flambeau Veteran Building. The mental Health Counselor will be at the Veterans building once a week to provide mental health services to Veterans. Contact the Lac Du Flambeau Family Resource Center for appointment time and date.

What is 988?
The Veterans Crisis Line's new number—988 then Press 1—helps make it easier to remember and share the number to access help in times of need. Signed into law in 2020, the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act authorized 988 as the new three-digit number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. As part of the law, all telephone service providers in the U.S. had to activate the number no later than July 16, 2022.Veterans can use this new option by dialing 988 and pressing 1 to contact the Veterans Crisis Line. Veterans may still reach the Veterans Crisis Line with the previous phone number—1-800-273-8255 and Press 1—by text (838255), and through chat (VeteransCrisisLine.net/Chat)..

Help for Veteran Owned Businesses

Wisconsin Veteran Business Owners Directory of Business/Veteran's Resources (archived file unavailable)

Community Education Incentive (CEI)

To contact me for help or to set up time to meet and see what we can locate for you, please call my office at 715-588-4171.

Veterans Apprenticeship Program

Veterans in Piping and Helmets to Hardhats. Includes classroom instruction and On-the-Job Training.

For more information please visit: 

WisconsinApprenticeship.org or https://dwd.wisconsin.gov/ /va-benefits.htm apprenticeship

Other Informational Links

• Virtual Homeless Veteran Outreach Symposium: Understanding the Unique Needs of Homeless Veterans (archived file unavailable)
• Native American veterans celebrate congressional charter National American for Indian Veterans (archived file unavailable)
• UW-Madison to cover full cost of undergraduate degree for students from WI Indian Tribes (archived file unavailable)
• Senator Tammy Baldwin Letter - Commitment to Veteran Support and Outreach Act (archived file unavailable)
• Tribal Leader Letter  (archived file unavailable)
• Registered Apprenticeship: Earn While You Learn (archived file unavailable)
• More than 600 veterans at Tomah VA will have their disability claims reexamined (archived file unavailable)
• All WWII Veterans are now eligible for no-cost VA health care and nursing home services2023/11/all-wwii-veterans-are-now-eligible-for-no-cost-va-health-care-and-nursing-home-services.pdf (archived file unavailable)
• National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month (archived file unavailable)
• Wis-MAC Program - Veterans in Healthcare (archived file unavailable)
• Agent Orange Newsletter (archived file unavailable)
• VA Reasonable Doubt Regulation
• Veteran Suicide Prevention Project Resources (archived file unavailable)
• Free career guidance for Veterans from America’s top companies (archived file unavailable)
• PACT ACT VA Healthcare enrollment deadline (archived file unavailable)
• First Tribal Veteran Service Officer to serve as the President of the Tribal County Veterans Service Officers Association of Wisconsin. (archived file unavailable)
• VA Resources - Suicide Prevention Month (archived file unavailable)
• Next PACT Act deadline: Health care enrollment for Veterans deployed to combat zones (archived file unavailable)
• Rally Point and the Power of Military Friendships - VA News (archived file unavailable)
• VA Tec Update - Education Funding  (archived file unavailable)
• More survivors of Veterans eligible for PACT Act benefits
• VA Voice - Spring 2023 (archived file unavailable)
• AAW Friends and Family Brochure (archived file unavailable)
• PACT ACT Airborne Hazards and Burn Pit Exposures (archived file unavailable)
• PACT ACT Camp Lejeune Water Contamination Health Issues (archived file unavailable)
• PACT ACT Gulf War Veterans' Medically Unexplained Illnesses (archived file unavailable)
• PACT ACT Infectious Diseases and Gulf War Veterans (archived file unavailable)
• PACT ACT Veterans' Diseases Associated with Agent orange (archived file unavailable)
• PACT-Act Compensation and Pension Exam Toxic Exposure Screening and Registry Exams (archived file unavailable)
• PACT-Act Environmental Health Registry Evaluations for Veterans (archived file unavailable)
• Expanded presumptive disability benefits for Vietnam Veterans - 3-31-23 (archived file unavailable)
• WDVA Behavioral Health Listening Session (archived file unavailable)
• The PACT Act expands VA health care and benefits for Veterans exposed to toxic substances (archived file unavailable)
• Women Veterans News February 2023 (archived file unavailable)
• How to apply for VA health care (archived file unavailable)
• Veterans in acute suicidal crisis will be able to go to any VA or non-VA health care facility for emergency health care at no cost (archived file unavailable)
• All Things PACT Act 101 Overview (archived file unavailable)
• Camp Lejeune Water Contamination - Know Your Options (archived file unavailable)
• Agent Orange Newsletter - Information for Vietnam-Era Veterans and their Families (archived file unavailable)
• Spread the word about PACT Act Health Care Eligibility
• Veteran Retraining Program (archived file unavailable)
• WDVA Blue Ribbon Commission Report
• The PACT Act and Your VA Benefits (archived file unavailable)
• Understanding PTSD and PTSD Treatment (archived file unavailable)
• Pension Poaching Prevention: Spot a Scam, Stop a Scam! Be Prepared, Be Educated, Be Vigilant (archived file unavailable)
• 9 Presumptive added to Gulf War List 4-26-22 (archived file unavailable)
• Added Rare Respiratory Cancers to Presumptive Gulf War Era (archived file unavailable)
• Exposure to hazardous chemicals and materials (archived file unavailable)
• R.A.C.E. Suicide Prevention Brochure (archived file unavailable)
• Veterans Suicide Prevention Training R.A.C.E. (archived file unavailable)
• Homefront Support Group (archived file unavailable)
• Veterans Support Group (archived file unavailable)
• VA Extends presumptive period for Persian Gulf War Veterans (archived file unavailable)
• Cancer Screenings  (archived file unavailable)
• R&R House Mental Health America of Wisconsin (archived file unavailable)
• Persian Gulf War (GW) Particulate Matter Exposure Interim Claims Processing (archived file unavailable)
• VA Plans Expansion of Benefits for Disability Claims for Conditions Related to Certain Toxic Exposures (archived file unavailable)