Working in partnership with the San Diego VA Healthcare System, ACVOW is able to provide services designed to achieve its goal, most notable is to enhance the Hospital environment for the patients and VA personnel through a common language. We do this through group dialog with each party to make for a better understanding and increased awareness of individual needs and expectations. Qualified healthcare professionals will provide your healthcare.
The term "Common Language" is key. It is based upon those experiences which have been encountered only by the combat veteran, which can lead to PTSD or combat stress. No other experience is so intense, emotional and life threatening over a long duration as that of sustained combat. No other experience requires that you "stuff" those emotions in order to get on with the mission; to preserve your life and the lives of those around you. To falter in this regard means spiritual, psychological and /or physical death.