Written on April 19, 2011 at 2:28 pm by

A New Way to Serve Our Veterans

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Mobile App: PTSD Coach

By Secretary Eric K. Shinseki , Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs

Some of the most important programs our department provides are mental health services.  I am pleased to announce that VA and the Department of Defense (DoD) have launched the PTSD Coach – our first in a suite of jointly developed mobile smartphone applications (apps) for mental health.

When speaking with Veterans living with PTSD, we were told that they wanted and needed a convenient way to learn more about the services and resources available to them, as well as an app that could help them manage symptoms of PTSD at any given moment.  The PTSD Coach is a cutting edge app which provides information and tools that Veterans and service members can use to cope with their PTSD symptoms any moment of the day—24/7.

This new tool is useful for anyone who is receiving treatment for PTSD.  It is also an anonymous resource that will be important for Veterans and service members, who may not be in treatment now, but who may be seeking quick, accessible information about PTSD.  It’s available now on iTunes and will be online soon for Android phones, as well.  I recommend it for anyone, who wants to learn more about PTSD, and we’ll look forward to introducing additional apps over the course of the coming year. This is just one more way that VA and DoD are working together to provide 21st Century tools for the men and women who are serving, and have served, our great Nation.


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