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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 16 Jan 1980, p. 4

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ft' & PAGE 4 - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 16,1980 Outreach For Vietnam Veterans Max Cleland, ad­ ministrator of the Veterans administration, will come to Chicago Jan. 14 to open the VA's newest program, a unique outreach activity aimed at Vietnam Era veterans with readjustment problems. The program will begin in Illinois on thaUdate with the opening of a VA counseling center at 5242 West Chicago avenue. Open house will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The center will be one of the first of 87 nationally to be opened. They are being established under a provision of the Veterans Health Care Amendments act of 1979, signed into law by President Carter last June. It provides for informal, low- key psychological coun­ seling for Vietnam Era veterans who have had difficulty on reentering civilian life. All centers are to be housed away from established VA facilities in store fronts or other locations thought to be convenient to large numbers of veterans needing their services. 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Sat ton tiSja Free$a-Up, Delivery, Decorator Pieces *mr ItteilBHRV Hom« Puir nishiniis Tht Store That Caras To Save You Monoy" what some people regard as the stigma of psychiartric diagnosis. "If we find it is advisable, and the veteran requests it, we can supplement our own services with private psychological care or by admission to the VA's regular mental health program." The Chicago counseling center will be manned by a small team of experts specially trained to counsel Vietnam Era veterans and their families on problems ^ resulting from the veterans' service. In addition to in­ dividual. group and family counseling, team members will assist veterans in career and educational develob- liicnt. "Basically the program is a no-frills, low-key approach to helping that relatively small group of Vietnam Era veterans who have failed to get the help they need because they are turned off by bureaucratic red tape and long waiting lines," Cleland said. "We will be trying to give help to a bunch of veterans who. for many reasons, have not been able to put their Vietnam experiences behind them. They gave much and lost much in service t/i oUr nation. It is right that we should extend ourselves to help them help themselves." Bull Valley Woman To Mental Health Posts Mrs. Jean Dooley of Bull Valley has been elected secretary of both the Executive board and the Northern district of the Illinois Association of Community Mental Health Agencies. The association is a non­ profit organization com­ prised of ninety local agencies throughout Illinois that provide a variety of community: mental health services. Community mental health services include primary prevention of, and services for mental illness, emotional, substance-abuse, developmental disabilities and-or interpersonal problems. The purpose of the association is to strive toward improving the availability and quality of community mental health services for all the citizens of Illinois. 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