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Welcome to the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs. Our mission is to work on behalf of Wisconsin's veterans community — veterans, their families and their survivors — in recognition of their service and sacrifice to our state and nation.

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Outreach & Recovery

Veterans Outreach and Recovery Program coordinators can connect veterans with treatment, housing, and other emergency services. Get help

Women Veterans

The WDVA recognizes the contributions of women veterans and provides outreach for women veterans programs and issues. Read More

Help in Your Community

Your local Tribal and County Veterans Service Officers can help determine the benefits and services for which you are eligible. Find your TVSO/CVSO

Gov. Tony Evers joined WDVA Secretary-designee Mary Kolar and community partners for the groundbreaking of John R. Moses Hall at the Wisconsin Veterans Home at King.

Wollersheim Distillery presents a donation of $50,400 to the WDVA. The funds came from sales of its Red, White and Blue American Whiskey.

Girls Scouts and Boy Scouts helped put flags onto the graves of veterans and spouses buried at our Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery for Memorial Day.

Secretary-designee Kolar visits with Max Bergen, a WWII veteran who spent 14 months as a POW in Austria. He currently resides at the Veterans Home at Chippewa Falls.

Women veterans from across Wisconsin participated in alternative therapies at the annual Women Veterans Retreat at Trinity Equestrian Center in Eau Claire.

Volunteers enjoy the photo booth at the Western-themed volunteer banquet. Last year, volunteers at the Wisconsin Veterans Home at King contributed 23,530 hours!

WWII veteran Anna Mae Wilson Robertson gets her photo taken for I Am Not Invisible, an upcoming traveling exhibit that will tell the stories of Wisconsin’s women veterans.

WDVA Veterans Events

NOW OPEN! In My Spare Moments: The Art of Harold F. Schmitz exhibit at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum
July 23, 2019 - Senior Health Fair at Wisconsin Veterans Home at King
July 31, 2019 - Deadline to apply for the Veteran Entrepreneurship Grant
August 8, 2019 - Drink-N-Draw at the Museum. Register TODAY!
August 22, 2019 - Mess Night at the Museum: From the VOICES of Holocaust Survivors. Register NOW!

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