Morris County Veterans Services Office

What the office does. "We help Morris County veterans and their families with their VA benefits and entitlements. Our Veterans Services Officers can: Provide information and referrals for Education, Veterans insurance, VA home loans, VA Healthcare, Veterans Memorial Homes or VA Nursing Home, Vocational Rehabilitation ... Help with getting transportation ... Provide flags to decorate in honor of Memorial Day." Claims help: "We can help honorably discharged Morris County veterans file claims for: Military service-related disability, VA Pension, VA Health Care, Discharge review, Records correction, Retrieval of lost records." Office: Veterans Services Office, 540 West Hanover Avenue, Morris Township 07960, (973) 285-6866, [email protected]; "Morris County Veterans Services Office has established walk-in hours to better serve Veterans. These hours are Monday - Thursday from 8am - 2pm." Free mental health. "Are you a veteran, or a family member of a veteran? You are eligible for free mental health services from Morris County and the Mental Health Association. ... All services provided by the Mental Health Association are grant-funded and free to veterans and their families" - contact Deanna Ackerman, 973-334-3496 ext. 515. The county created the veteran programmes with $350,000 of American Rescue Plan Act funds in 2021 and added $300,000 in 2023 "to support additional services for emergency shelter, eviction prevention, housing access, transportation and food security." The federal VA next door. "Morris County's new federal Veteran Center Community Access Point (CAP) is scheduled to open on May 2 [2024] at the Morris County Veteran Services Office ... Services will be provided - by appointment only -- by two Veteran Affairs (VA) counselors from the federal Bloomfield Vet Center, who will be available every Thursday. To make an appointment, veterans should call the Bloomfield Vet Center at 973-748-0980, NOT the Morris County VSO." The county provided two rooms at the office for it. The college. A county news release of September 16, 2025 announced the VSO on site at the County College of Morris (CCM) Veterans Resource Center in Sheffield Hall two days each month; the January 21, 2026 work-session minutes record the expansion: "Effective February 2026, a Veterans Services Officer will be stationed at CCM's Veterans Resource Center on a weekly basis. Staff was previously stationed at the resource center twice a month." The center's own line: 973-328-5220. Training and board year. The county hosted the NJ VA's "VA S.A.V.E." suicide-prevention training (January 2026 work-session minutes), and the board's window carries RES-2025-929 (Operation Green Light), RES-2025-931 (Veterans Month), RES-2026-16 (Advisory Council on Aging, Disabilities and Veterans appointments) and the FY2027 DMAVA transportation grant RES-2026-537, each adopted unanimous per the minutes packets, and RES-2026-147, the February 11, 2026 extension by nine months of Legal Services of Northwest NJ's contract (RFP# P24-181) "TO PROVIDE SOCIAL SERVICES FOR VETERAN'S FAMILIES (Sheriff's Office)" that Resolution 2024-1009 had awarded for 2025. The county's Advisory Council on Aging, Disabilities and Veterans meets on the first Tuesday of every other month at the Human Services Building, 340 West Hanover Avenue.