Bay Pines VA Program Tackles Military Sex Cases

Tampa Bay Online reports on Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish:

“Military sexual trauma has a debilitating effect on hundreds of thousands of our nation’s veterans, who face severe obstacles as they re-enter civilian life,” says Nancy Parrish, president of Protect our Defenders. “VA clinics have few resources specifically designed for these veterans, particularly for the men, who therefore often must go to women’s health clinics for help. The VA reports 40 percent of those female homeless veterans and 3.2 percent of male homeless veterans who are VHA users, suffer from MST.”

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