Hawaii Vet 2 Vet and WILL Interactive have joined forces to bring you a very unique training experience.

You become the lead characters in interactive movies, make decisions that matter and experience outcomes in real time.

Step into the shoes of another person, enhance your mental and situational awareness, and build the skills that will help you reintegrate into the community.

Six powerful training experiences provide the support and tools that you need to build resilience and find the employment that you deserve.

Experience "EACH" course for less than $20.00

1.Reinventing Michael Banks "From Active Duty to Civillian Worker"

2.Ways Home “Best Financial Education Program of the Year”

3.The War Inside "PTSD Education Experience"

4.The War Back Home "Prescription Medicine Misuse and the Destructive Outcomes"

5.The Home Front "Suicide Prevention and Risk Awareness"

6.Leading The Way interviewing and onboarding a Military Veteran 

 Hawaii's Premier Non-Profit Community Reintegration Organization for all of our Service Members Veterans and their Families.(SMVF-TA Center)

Resources from Hawaii SAMHSA Team SMVF Collaboration

National Resource Directory or eBenefits DVA

COVID-19 CDC Website or VA Website

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Mental Restorations is a nonprofit..we are using ocean and land activities to help veterans, active, family, youth..for better mental wellness

(PTSD Program Locator) "Request your DD214"

Our Women Veterans at Work

Almost 20 of every 100 (or 20%) of our Women Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, have been diagnosed with PTSD

 Research shows that high levels of social support after the war were important for those women Veterans. Women who reported that they had close friends and family were less likely to have symptoms of PTSD. Having someone to talk to and someone who really cared helped women to adjust better to postwar life.



IS TREATMENT INDIVIDUALIZED ?

Alcohol and Drugs are embedded in our human experience, they have become..,

"The Fabric of America".

While most do not become addicted by the use of pills or the drinking of alcoholic beverages some of our citizens will.

These are the ones that our society puts into a box.., labels as losers, unproductive.., hopeless members of our system or community. 

The mission of Hawaii Vet 2 Vet Inc. is to educate Service Members, Veterans, and their Families.

Educating our stakeholders with the knowledge that gives them the ability to cope with a diagnosis of a Mental Health and/or Substance Use Disorder.

"This Process Reveals Two Actors"

We find that the education process helpful because we are able to look inside of ourselves and when we do look inside we see that there are two actors !!!

For this writer these two actors were revealed after the VA Social Worker said to me..,

“you are an alcoholic”..,

This statement (or diagnosis) revealed one of the two actors inside of me.

 I have called this first actor..,

"DENIAL"

Denial is a negative lifestyle and denial does not want anything to change.

Denial says "no way" and "it is impossible" for you to be what these people are telling you.

Denial lives in our "Old Self".

"Acceptance" is the second actor..,

"Acceptance" will show up asking a series of questions.

The questions that "Acceptance" brings are self reflective and some of them are..,

1.) "How has this affected my life?"

2.) "Why did this happen to me?"

3.) "How will my life be moving forward?"

The result of answering the questions of "Acceptance" were me asking .., What now ?

"The Start of change "

I have found that this second actor "Acceptance" started to open my mind up to question myself and my actions.

Acceptance of my diagnosis also opened the doors of opportunity so that I could start to be reshaped into an Instrument of Change.

"ENTER NEW ACTORS"

Acceptance came with this new actor called "Willingness".

Willingness empowered me with the ability to listen to the professionals.., the people that are in my life teaching me how to live this life anew.

This enabled me to see that millions of people are living and coping with life while being diagnosed with a Mental Health or Substance Abuse Disorder.

 New Life of Success Now Possible !!!

In time I was introduced to..,

The Vet 2 Vet Program

I consider the founding trio of this program to be Moe Armstrong, Roy Brown and Ed Drew.

Vietnam Veterans who discovered that one Veteran helping another Veteran increases long term recovery and positive living.

Some additional outcomes are..,

1. The Veterans Health Administration created a Department to oversee VA Peer Specialist.

2. Vet 2 Vet is a National Network of Veterans who Advocate and Educate.

3. Vet 2 Vet Educates Veterans about Mental Health and Substance Abuse.

4. We can now say YES.., Your Treatment Plan is Individualized.

Hawaii Vet 2 Vet Inc. iscustomized to addresses the challenges veterans are facing in Hawaii.

We are also a voice staying connected with our National VA Leadership looking at the future.

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Our Women Veterans at Work

Almost 20 of every 100 (or 20%) of our Women Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, have been diagnosed with PTSD

 Research shows that high levels of social support after the war were important for those women Veterans. Women who reported that they had close friends and family were less likely to have symptoms of PTSD. Having someone to talk to and someone who really cared helped women to adjust better to postwar life.

(PTSD Program Locator) "Request your DD214"

It was also important for the returning women Veterans to feel that they could rely on others to assist them with tasks in times of need. Veterans who had this form of support suffered less from PTSD. (VA Fact Sheets)

Traumatic Stress in Women Veterans

In response to the recent increase in women Veterans, the VA has put in place a number of health care and research programs just for women. This includes the Women Veterans Health Program and the Center for Women Veterans. Every VA in this country now has a Women Veterans Program Manager.



 Laptops 4 Life   

Laptops 4 Life is a economic program created by Hawaii Vet 2 Vet and PC's for People.

This program has been created to address the problem that over 150,000 families and individuals face in Hawaii as they live below 200 percent of the federal poverty level.

Together we help the economically disadvantaged families and individuals access desktop computers and laptops with affordable internet access.

FREE COMMUNITY RESOURCE NAVIGATION SERVICES

Hawaii Vet 2 Vet Inc is here to connect you with the services and benefits that you are entitled to receive from the Department of Veterans Health and Benefits Administration (VHA and VBA).

Just fill out this contact form and we will get back to you with an answer so that you are able to utilize the services you earned while you were in service. (click this link to take you to our form)

The Veterans Star in the background is a American-Made, Hand-Crafted work of art created by.., "Man Cave Metal Works".

(Photo Courtesy Honolulu Star Advertiser)

EVIDENCE-BASED INTERVENTIONS

Hawaii Vet 2 Vet Inc. uses evidence-based interventions teaching our participants that while on this road called Recovery there can be setbacks, and these setbacks or bumps are "Learning Opportunities".

Since April of 2009 Hawaii Vet 2 Vet Inc. (State of Hawaii Non-Profit Organization) has continued to work on improving and delivering better client centered Mental Health and Substance Abuse Peer Recovery Educational and Community Support Services.

With our manualized approach all of our stakeholders have the ability to remain focused on the goals that are created and outlined in each participants Individualized Treatment and Recovery Plan.

Identifying and Selecting. Evidence-Based Interventions 

We call this "Individualized Treatment Plan" your "Life Recovery Plan" !!!

PEER RECOVERY EDUCATION SERVICES

COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES

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We utilize Evidence-Based Programs

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is workbook based which allows all of our stakeholders in this

utilizing evidence based programs and practices gives us the ability to create a True Individualized Treatment Plan which we call your Life Recovery Plan.

for our Service Members Veterans and their O'hana in Hawaii

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This process of creation engages our participants in

Failure happens when we as participants feel that our voice has not been heard during the creation process.

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Acceptance of this plan is

We are conveniently located in 

We work with every person to create a Life Recovery Plan that enables our participants to build on thier strengthes while keeping them engaged in building a better future.

who engages with us in order to achieve Our Individual Life Recovery Plans include your voice as we offer you options for Your Recovery

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Introduction to SMART Recovery



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Veterans Court starts in Hawaii.



The Veterans Treatment Court was initiated by First Circuit Judge Ed Kubo in 2013.

"Request your DD214"

The Honorable Judge Edward Kubo along with., The Judiciary, State Bar, and the University of Hawaii Law School all recognize that Americans enjoy their freedom because of those who have served our Country in the military.

CBS Veterans Court report on 60 Minutes

Many of these Veterans also need legal assistance and The Veterans Treatment Court takes a holistic approach to help provide the resources and treatment these veterans need.

Veterans Service Records

This allows them to get healthy, get employed, and return to being law-abiding citizens so they can enjoy the freedoms they fought to protect.

Honolulu's First Veterans Court Graduation..., 17 April 2015 at State Supreme Court

Behavioral Health and Justice Transformation Peer Resources (SAMHSA Gains Center)

Oahu Detox Services

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