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Center for Women Veterans
https://www.va.gov/womenvet/
Indiana Commission for Women
www.in.gov/icw
U.S. Small Business Administration
https://www.sba.gov/about-sba/sba-locations/headquarters-offices
National Women's Business Council
https://www.nwbc.gov/​
National Centre for PTSD
https://www.ptsd.va.gov/
Second Saturday NWI
http://www.secondsaturdaynwi.org/
To find a domestic relations mediator in Indiana: https://courtapps.in.gov/mediatorsearch
To find a certified family law attorney in Indiana:http://www.lawyerlegion.com/certifications/indiana/family-law/
The Lilac Tree: http://thelilactree.org/ (IL based, but helpful)
Divorce Moms (great articles and resources):www.divorcedmoms.com
Indiana Legal Services:
http://www.indianalegalservices.org/


                                                                                  Female Veteran Sites:


Academy Women

www.academywomen.org

AcademyWomen is a nonprofit organization which offers programs to support and enable women from the nation's officer development programs to reach their full potential as leaders.

Aging Vets

How to Plan Wisely for Your Future

Discussion of reverse mortgages as a possible source for retirement resources for our veterams.
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Air Force Women Officers Associated

www.afwoa.org​

AFWOA's purpose is to foster comradeship through reunions, maintain ties between active and retired women officers, preserve the history and promote recognition of the role of military women, and lend support to women engaged in education and training programs.

American Bar Association "Legal Guide to Military Families (purchase)
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American Women Veterans Foundation
American Women Veterans is the nation’s preeminent, non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit organization that serves, honors and empowers women veterans and their families from all eras and branches of service.

Army Women's Foundation

www.awfdn.org

The U.S. Army Women’s Foundation is the premier center for educational excellence, the national network for today’s Army women and a dynamic advocate for telling the history of Army women.

Assistive Tech for Veterans and Military

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Behavioral Health for Veterans
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Department of Veterans Affairs - Center for Women Veterans

http://www.va.gov/WOMENVET/
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The Center for Women Veterans specifically addresses the health care needs of eligible women veterans, providing appropriate, timely and compassionate health care at the facility level.


Department of Veterans Affairs -State of Indiana

http://www.in.gov/dva/

F7 Group - Empowering Female Veterans and Military Women

www.f7group.com

F7 Group is dedicated to securing and providing resources, training, support and mentoring to Female Veterans and Women in Military Service, both IN and BESIDE the uniform.


Fatigues to Fabulous

www.fatiguestofabulous.com

Fatigues to Fabulous™ (F2F) is a national campaign designed to support those women serving in our nation's military, and the unique issues faced by women veterans. 


Grace after Fire
Grace After Fire provides support for and helps women veterans of the United States military who are returning from active duty so that they can re-engage as mothers, wives and daughters in civilian life.

Guide to Military Moves

Indiana VA Facilities


Indiana Veteran's Home
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Justice for Vets
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​Mental Health Needs of Vets & Families

Mesothelioma, Veterans, and Asbestos Exposure

Military Veterans Resource Center

National Women Veterans United (Illinois)
The mission of NWVU is to ensure that women veterans are made aware and have access and information regarding their VA benefits and entitlements including current or pending legislation that impacts VA benefits. 

One Savvy Veteran
One Savvy Veteran's mission is to encourage, educate and empower women veterans experiencing economic hardships with comprehensive assistance needed to successfully navigate the transition from military service to civilian life.

Operation Reinvent
Operation Reinvent ‘embraces’ women veterans from the time they leave military service, until they have successfully reinvented their lives and transitioned to a new normal… as happy, healthy, productive civilians in the workplace and in the community. During this process, which does not have an expiration date, Operation Reinvent does not let her fall between cracks or lose courage

Purdue Military Family Institute
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Residential Lease and the Military
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Resources for Vets & Families Living with Cancer

Service Women's Action Network
SWAN supports, defends, and empowers today’s servicewomen and women veterans of all eras, through groundbreaking advocacy initiatives and innovative, healing community programs.

SWAN partners with law firms, legal clinics and other organizations to pursue military and VA institutional reform through the courts.

Legal and Peer Support Helpline1-888-729-2089 

Hours: 10am-6pm EST

She S.E.R.V.E.D. Inc.
She S.E.R.V.E.D Inc., is a service driven, charitable organization developed to Support, Enhance and Restore Veterans Every Day. She S.E.R.V.E.D Inc., isn’t the first organization to cater exclusively to women veterans; what sets us apart is our passion and focus on three objectives: Supporting, Enhancing and Restoring.

SHOUT! For Women Veterans (Swords to Plowshares)
SHOUT! For Women Veterans, is a project by Swords to Plowshares. SHOUT! is a yearly event to celebrate women veteran and was inspired by the notion that the arts encourage expression and healing. 

Sisterhood of Veterans
The Sisterhood aims to provide an easy avenue for women veterans to gain social support during the formation of new identities after deployment and/or the military, by facilitating healthy activities that create informal and natural therapies among women veterans.


The National League of Female Veterans, Inc.
The National League of Female Veterans was created to act as an advocate of the issues facing female veterans and their families.

WINC for all Women Veterans
WINC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing women who were served in the Armed Forces, including those injured either physically, mentally, emotionally, or even spiritually, with the tools they need to enter the world again as a woman, not a service member; while also increasing national awareness about the need to successfully integrate the female warrior veteran back into society.

Women's Army Corps Veteran's Association
WOSL is a national organization of women who have served overseas in or with the Armed Forces.

Women Marines Association
The WMA is comprised of women who have served or are serving honorably in the United States Marine Corps regular or reserve components.

Women of the Waves (WAVES)
Waves National is a sea service women's organization for women who have served or are currently serving in the sea services.

Women's Overseas Service League

WOSL 
WOSL is a national organization of women who have served overseas in or with the Armed Forces.

Women's Trauma Recovery Program

Dept of Veterans Affairs Nat'l Women's Trauma Recovery Program 

More than a decade ago, the Department of Veterans Affairs opened the National Women's Trauma Recovery Program (WTRP) as part of the National Center for PTSD at Menlo Park, CA. The WTRP, designed to treat women veterans with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is the first residential program of its kind and is open to women across the country. Many of the women who are referred to the program were sexually assaulted during their military service and suffer what is now referred to as Military Sexual Trauma (MST).


Women Veterans Interactive

http://www.womenveteransinteractive.org/

Meeting women veterans at their point of need and supporting them through advocacy, empowerment, interaction, outreach and unification (AEIOU).


Women Veteran Social Justice

http://www.wvsjnetwork.org/

Women Veteran Social Justice is a support organization with the vision to identify, connect, educate and empower veteran women about programs, benefits, social and professional networking opportunities.


Women Veterans Rock

www.womenvetsrock.org

We are a coalition of Women Veteran Organizations and Women Advocacy Organizations supporting women veterans and military families in the areas of: housing; employment; education; financial stability; health and wellness.

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My mother had me at the young age of 14 and I saw the struggles we had to go through and I knew I didn't want that for my children. I wanted better as all parents want better for their kids then what they had had. What Women in Bloom has done for me has helped tremendously with that and I am beyond thankful.

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