Veteran Services
You’ve already served your country, now let us serve you.
Polk County’s Veteran Services is here to help current, former and future service members wade through the intricate and sometimes complicated process of obtaining military benefits.
Many of Polk’s nearly 60,000+ veterans can take advantage of this free service. Click here for more.
Coaching Into Care
Coaching Into Care is a free service for families and friends of Veterans. Our responders will briefly assess your concerns and provide appropriate resources and referrals. Through 10 to 30 minute calls, licensed psychologists and social workers offer guidance and help for starting conversations with the Veteran in your life about their mental health or substance use and motivating them to seek treatment if it’s needed.
Call us: 888-823-7458
Vet Center
Vet Centers are community-based counseling centers that provide a wide range of social and psychological services, including professional readjustment counseling to eligible Veterans, active duty service members, including National Guard and Reserve components, and their families. Readjustment counseling is offered to make a successful transition from military to civilian life or after a traumatic event experienced in the military. Individual, group, marriage and family counseling is offered in addition to referral and connection to other VA or community benefits and services. Vet Center counselors and outreach staff, many of whom are Veterans themselves, are experienced and prepared to discuss the tragedies of war, loss, grief and transition after trauma.
1370 Ariana Street, Lakeland, FL 33803
863-284-0841
Cornerstone Hospice
Cornerstone Hospice services are available in Central Florida.
2140 E County Road 540A
Lakeland, FL 33813
https://cornerstonehospice.org
Buffalo Soldiers
Our mission is to share the truths of the men who were given the designation, United States Colored Troops, USCT, and the men who later became known as the Buffalo Soldiers.
2211 Deer Run
Lakeland, FL 33809
Buffalo Soldiers
Our mission is to share the truths of the men who were given the designation, United States Colored Troops, USCT, and the men who later became known as the Buffalo Soldiers.
2211 Deer Run
Lakeland, FL 33809