Helping Agencies

Other Diversity Teams' Resources

CALVET for Women Veterans https://www.calvet.ca.gov/calvet-programs/women-veterans

California is home to nearly 163,000 women who served in our U.S. military. They are Veterans, family members, friends, business owners, professionals, community leaders, and advocates. Women Veterans served in every major U.S. conflict and in peacetime since our Revolutionary War. CALVET can help with education, employment, healthcare, home loans, housing, advocacy, and VA claims.

Military OneSource https://www.militaryonesource.mil/ 

Military OneSource is the connection to answer and support military life. They can help with relationship counseling, non-medical counseling for stress relief, financial counseling, document translation, spouse scholarships, education and career benefits, childcare, and permanent change of station (PCS) moves.

Operation Dress Code. https://operationdresscode.org/

Operation Dress Code provides women veterans with a free personalized shopping spree designed to help them navigate civilian careers with the confidence they deserve and respect they earned. The specially designed Operation Dress Code pop-up boutiques offer new and gently used professional clothing, shoes, purses, jewelry and accessories - all free for women currently serving in the U.S. Armed Forces and for the women who have previously served.

SAFE Helpline https://safehelpline.org/ 

DoD Safe Helpline is the sole secure, confidential, and anonymous crisis support service specially designed for members of the Department of Defense community affected by sexual assault. 

VA Center for Women Veterans https://www.va.gov/womenvet/ 

The Center for Women Veterans’ (CWV) mission is to monitor and coordinate VA’s administration of health care, benefits, services, and programs for women Veterans. They serve as an advocate for cultural transformation and to raise awareness of the responsibility to treat women Veterans with dignity and respect to #BringWomenVeteransHome2VA. 

Work For Warriors https://workforwarriors.org 

Work for Warriors (WFW) is a FREE job placement program in California that assists all servicemembers, veterans, their families, natural disaster survivors, and Youth Academy graduates.  

Our Legislative Partners

Dianne Feinstein (U.S. Senator for California). https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/

Alex Padilla. (U.S. Senator for California). https://www.padilla.senate.gov/

United States Senate Committee on Armed Services. https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/

Learn about a military member's right to speak with members of Congress: https://whistleblower.house.gov/sites/whistleblower.house.gov/files/Military_Whistleblower_Protection_Act_Fact_Sheet.pdf and Congressional inquiries: https://open.defense.gov/Transparency/Congressional-Inquiries/