La Crosse County Veterans Service Office and the Veterans Service Commission

La Crosse County's Veterans Service Office is on the first floor of the Health and Human Services Building, 300 4th Street North, La Crosse, phone (608) 785-9719, open weekdays 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The VSO is Jane Brannan, leading a five-person staff. The commission, published. The county's Veterans Service Commission gives emergency aid - food, fuel and medical vouchers, utility and rent paid direct to providers, VA bus fare - to needy veterans and families of deceased veterans. Its published process: six months of county residency and a DD214; up to three grants per person per year; the VSO may authorize grants of $100 or less alone; the commission meets the third Monday at 3:45 p.m., applicants appear at 4 p.m., and applications are due the Wednesday prior. The county re-codified the commission - five veteran members, aid under section 45.81, advisory to the Veterans, Aging and Long Term Care Committee - by Ordinance No. 232-8/26, adopted unanimously August 20, 2026. The office runs monthly Community Office Hours at eight rotating sites. The board's year included a free veterans dental clinic with Western Technical College (September 18, 2025), $100,375 in grants for campground and trail work at Veteran's Memorial Park, and the "I Am Not Invisible" women-veteran photo project (January 15, 2026). The register of deeds records discharges free under section 45.05. The La Crosse Area Veterans Court - the second veterans treatment court in Wisconsin, stood up on Veterans Day 2010 - serves five counties from here; see the county's veterans treatment court entry.