Veterans support groups to begin at Nancy Devereux Center

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Story Published: Jun 22, 2009 at 4:30 PM PST

By Kristina Nelson, KCBY News

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COOS BAY, Ore. - For soldiers, coming home from combat is a relief, but for many, they bring back their experiences, good and bad, with them.

That's why a local non-profit agency is teaming up with the North Bend VA Clinic to provide support groups for veterans and their families.

Starting next Monday, June 29th, the Nancy Devereux Center in Coos Bay will be hosting three different support groups for veterans.

"We're hoping to get veterans in our community together in a place of safety. This is a welcoming center, a resource center, to get them to form support groups so that if they ever get in trouble, or they are in over their head or they are having trouble coping, that they've got a couple of phone numbers and a couple of friendly faces they can rely on," says John Mesquita, veteran and Nancy Devereux Center Board Member.

Meetings will be held Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 12 p.m. for vets, with facilitators from the VA and the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Monday's meetings are for all vets, Wednesday's will be for vets who have served in a theater of operation in the past ten years, and Friday's will be for families of veterans.

"We would like to have a place of safety where they could come, form support groups, discuss any issues and get help coping," says Mesquita.

For more information on these meetings, call the Nancy Devereux Center at 888-3202.

Again meetings begin Monday, June 29th.

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