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| Formed | 1925 (Cabinet rank 1999) |
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| Jurisdiction | State of Arizona |
| Headquarters | 3839 North 3rd Street, Suite 209, Phoenix, Arizona (Maricopa County), U.S.A. |
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| Website | www |
Arizona Department of Veterans' Services
Arizona has provided services to Arizona Veterans since 1925, six years after the First World War (1914/1917-1918), when it created the position of a solitary Veterans’ Service Officer. This position was abolished 26 years later, following World War II (1939/1941-1945),and in the midst of the Korean War (1950-1953), in 1951 and was replaced by the Arizona Veterans’ Service Commission. Another two decades later, near the ending of the Vietnam War (1961-1975), in Southeast Asia in 1973, the Commission was integrated into the Arizona Department of Economic Security. Primarily at the request of various veterans’ organizations, the then Governor of Arizona reestablished the Commission as a separate agency in 1982. In 1999, the Arizona State Legislature separated the Commission from the former level of an agency by reorganizing and making the Commission as an advisory body and creating a separate state Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services, headed by a governor-appointed director with a headquarters in the state capital of Phoenix, and considered a full executive branch department and part of the governor's cabinet.
The Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services provides direct services to Veterans through the administration of 19 Veterans Benefits Offices throughout the state to help American military veterans connect with their United States V.A. benefits, two skilled nursing Veteran Home facilities in Phoenix and Tucson to provide short and long term care, one Veterans' Memorial Cemetery in Sierra Vista (Cochise County), with additional cemeteries in Northern Arizona and Maran. A fiduciary may provide conservator and guardian services for incapacitated veterans.
In addition, the A.D.V.S. provides critical, state-wide coordination and technical assistance to services and organizations serving veterans. This includes activities such as coordinating services across private and public sectors in serving targeted populations such as Veterans experiencing homelessness and Women Veterans, as well as building community capacity to address Veteran employment and higher education.
Services provided by the state Veterans' Services Department were instrumental in connecting Arizona’s nearly 600,000 military veterans with nearly $2,712,810,000 (2.7 million) dollars in further Compensation, Pension, Educational and Medical benefits and grants from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C. in fiscal year FY 2012.
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