Help and advice

Meeting a Welfare Officer

Combat Stress offers a Community Outreach Service to bring help to you.

The first person from Combat Stress that you are likely to meet is one of our Regional Welfare Officers. They can visit you at home – or in the place where you feel most comfortable.

Our Regional Welfare Officers are almost all Veterans themselves — with direct experience of Service life and can understand many of the problems encountered by Veterans and their immediate families.

Their objective, above all else, is to improve the quality of life of those who turn to Combat Stress for help. They can offer support with practical issues, such as assisting with War Pension claims. They can also introduce Veterans to specialist treatment for their mental health issues.

To give you a better idea of their work, you may like to read more here about the experience of Mike Burrows – one of our Regional Welfare Officers.