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1 Three Services Veterans Need to Successfully Return to Civilian Life Grand Canyon University UNV-104-O510 October 08, 2023 Three Services Veterans Need to Successfully Return to Civilian Life

2 When it comes to making the tough adjustment back to civilian life, are veterans properly supported and set up for success or failure? Veterans require highly particular services and assistance to have a decent chance of building and maintaining any kind of good civilian life. Unfortunately, many veterans have a significant danger of never regaining a sense of normalcy or even surviving the transitioning process. There is still much work to be done to ensure that our veterans receive the care and assistance they require. Three services are required for veterans to successfully return to civilian life: mental and physical health rehabilitation, long-term planning, and advocacy assistance. Veterans suffer severe and significant physical and mental trauma during combat, which can result in lasting damage if not properly treated and rehabilitated. When veterans return home from their service in the military, the primary cause of a problem is a shortage and lack of adequate healthcare. Because the United States is continually at war, soldiers are constantly sent for combat, causing them to acquire and suffer from mental diseases such as PTSD and serious depression. According to reports, the lack of health care treatment for these crucial mental health illnesses has resulted in an increase in Army veteran suicide rates of more than 18% between 2011 and 2014. Suicide rates among veterans and other Americans between 2001 and 2014 (Hester, 2017). Many military soldiers had untreated mental health disorders prior to joining the military, and these difficulties are not discovered or treated throughout their service. Because their mental health issues were exacerbated by both physical and mental traumas during their time in service, when they reenter civilian life, they face a slew of problems, including combat trauma, alcohol and/or substance abuse, financial difficulties, unemployment, and estrangement from their families. As a result of these mental problems, many veterans wind up on the streets, coping with addiction, or attempting suicide, which can result in death (Hester, 2017). However, with long-term planning and proactive support and assistance, veterans are less likely to confront the numerous issues that can lead to their deaths. Veterans in the military experience a new normal job, environment, family, connection, caretaking, and structure that would be called dysfunctional in the civilian sector. This makes it difficult and perplexing for them to readjust to "normal" life when they return home. Instead, this "normal" becomes the opposite for them, leaving them feeling like foreigners in their own environments (Ahern, 2015). Veterans must develop a new normal for their lives to successfully transition back to civilian life. Having peer support navigators, taking on an ambassador role, and thinking about it "getting better with time" are reported as some ways that help veterans get through this transitional period and lead them to the possibility of living a healthy and fulfilling life (Ahern, 2015). Furthermore, there is a world of benefits, services, and support available for veterans that the government and Veterans Administration do not make easily accessible to them, which is why advocates are so important. When service members return to civilian life, they all face the same challenges, such as miscommunications and uncertainty about projects, and they face

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