The Veterans Navigation Center Team has been assisting San Diego County Veterans since 2019, and is a pivotal member of the San Diego Veterans’ community.
The genesis of The Veterans Navigation Center comes from the work that Veteran-in-Recovery Jay Wylie (pictured, right) and Family Crisis Coach Scott H. Silverman (pictured, left) have done at Confidential Recovery, which has been in operation since 2014.
Our journey with Veterans began in 2019 when we connected with the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs. There was a huge unmet need for mental health counseling in the San Diego Veteran community. Confidential Recovery was able to rapidly meet the needs of the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Since that time, we have helped Veterans embark reintegrate into civilian society.
However, our team quickly realized that most of our veterans were experiencing a variety of concurrent challenges, such as co-occurring legal, family, housing, employment, or other issues.
So, our staff began to work with our partners to help our veterans to overcome these challenges, but we realized that a more formal process was needed to meet these disparate needs, and out of this need the Veterans Navigation Center (VNC) was born.
