Rock County Veterans Services and the Veterans Service Commission

Rock County’s all-veteran five-person CVSO office on Center Avenue in Janesville shares its building with a VA Vet Center, furnishes 45.86 emergency aid through a three-member commission, and runs a donation-funded relief fund that gave $24,000 to forty-plus veterans since 2024.

Also called: CVSO, Paul Crawford, Janesville, Veterans Service Commission, 45.86, Veterans Donation Trust, Badger Chordhawks, Vet Center, RVCP.

For: Veteran or service member, spouse, child, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Rock County, WICounty

Rock County Veterans Services is at 1747 Center Avenue, Suite 100, Janesville, phone (608) 757-5552, email [email protected], open Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The CVSO is Paul Crawford, a Marine, in seat since August 2021, leading five staff, all veterans; the office served 3,134 veterans and clients in 2025. A VA Vet Center counselor is co-located in the building, as is a case manager from CVI, the Milwaukee-based supportive-services nonprofit. The commission and the aid. The three-member Veterans Service Commission (Hefty to 2027, Dykstra to 2028, Galvan to 2026) meets quarterly and furnishes the 45.86 emergency aid: vouchers for hotel, rent, utilities and gas for veterans with ninety days' county residency and a general or honorable discharge facing a true emergency. Its June 2026 vouchers alone ran to $2,000 to Alliant Energy, a $525 motel voucher and $845 of rent. Separately, the donation-funded Veterans Donation Trust has given "over 40 Rock County veterans ... totaling $24,000" since the start of 2024, and the Badger Chordhawks Chorus gave it $20,000 by resolution adopted November 13, 2025. The board renamed its oversight committee the Veterans Service Committee on May 14, 2026. The register of deeds (Sandy Disrud, (608) 757-5650) records discharges free under section 45.05; the $30 fee schedule covers other documents. Two free rides programs run out of the county: the DAV van to the Janesville clinic and Madison VA ((608) 280-7019) and RSVP's Vets Helping Vets peer rides for veterans 55 and over ((608) 362-9593), including non-VA errands. The homeless-veteran pathway is RVCP transitional housing in Janesville, up to two years, (608) 757-6459. The county's court is Wisconsin's first veterans treatment court - see the county's veterans treatment court entry.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Rock County Veterans Services and the Veterans Service Commission
Gate	Rule
Any veteran or family member	The office assists Rock County veterans and their families with claims and county aid; the commission’s emergency aid requires ninety days of residency and a general or honorable discharge. No rating is required.

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Last updated 2026-10-08.

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