Family Safety: A Significant Concern for Returning Veterans and Their Families
Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, Cannon Caucus Room (CHOB 345)
October 24, 2008

Hosted by Witness Justice and the Veterans’ Initiative Center and Research Institute in Collaboration With:
Addiction, Treatment and Recovery Caucus
Mental Health Caucus
Veteran's Mental Health Caucus
Victim’s Rights Caucus

Briefing Press Release
Issue Overview
Briefing Photo Gallery
Briefing Video

Presenters

• Todd Bowers, Director of Government Affairs, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and veteran (written remarks)
• Thomas Berger, Ph.D., Chair, PTSD & Substance Abuse Committee, Vietnam Veterans of America (written remarks)
• A. Kathryn Power, M.Ed., Director, Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (written remarks)
• John Baker, Veterans’ Initiative Center and Research Institute (written remarks)
• Brigadier General Dr. Stephen Xenakis, retired United States Army
• Helga Luest (West), President and CEO, Witness Justice (written remarks)

U.S. Congressional Collaborators

Addiction, Treatment and Recovery Caucus
Mental Health Caucus
Veterans’ Mental Health Caucus
Victim’s Rights Caucus

U.S. Congressional Supporters

Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL)
Rep. Filner (D-CA), Chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee
Rep. Phil Hare (D- IL)
Rep. Michaud (D-ME), Chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Health

Organizational Supporters

American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
American Institute on Domestic Violence
American Mental Health Counselors Association
American Probation and Parole Association
American Psychoanalytic Association
Andrus Children’s Center
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Campaign for Mental Health Reform
Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants
Council on Crime and Justice
Durham Police Department Victim Services Unit
Family Nonviolence, Inc.
Gift from Within
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
Kent Center for Human and Organizational Development
Men Can Stop Rape
Men Stopping Violence
Mental Health America
Mental Health Liaison Group
National Association for Children’s Behavioral Health
National Association of Social Workers
National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence
National Center on Family Homelessness
National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
National Veterans Foundation
Sacred Circle: National Resource Center to End Violence Against Native Women
Stop the Silence: Stop Child Sexual Abuse, Inc.
Therapeutic Communities of America
Veteran’s Health Council
Veterans’ Initiative Center and Research Institute
Vietnam Veterans of America
Witness Justice

This briefing is hosted by Witness Justice with
the Veteran’s Initiative Center and Research Institute;
supported by the Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention.

¹Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery (2008). Tanielian, Terry, and Lisa H. Jaycox, eds. The RAND Corporation. Available http://veterans.rand.org.