{"id":2307,"date":"2025-09-14T18:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vdf.virginia.gov\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2025-09-24T22:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:51:12","slug":"department-of-veterans-services-wellness-portal-available-to-vdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vdf.virginia.gov\/?p=2307","title":{"rendered":"Department of Veterans Services wellness portal available to VDF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RICHMOND, Va. \u2014 Virginia Defense Force personnel may access the Cabana mental health wellness platform through the Virginia Department of Veterans Services (DVS) and create a free online mental health wellness account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Virginia Veteran and Family Support program provides healthcare and behavioral health resource linkages and help navigating community resources,\u201d explained Brandi Jancaitis, the director of the DVS\u2019s Virginia Veteran and Family Support Directorate. \u201cWe also have veteran peer staff that provide mentorship to other veterans to help during life stressors and recovery needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All Military Service Members including National Guard, VDF, Reserves, Veterans and adult dependents are eligible to create free accounts on the Cabana platform through our DVS pilot. There is also an iPhone app.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cabana offers resource materials, live virtual skill-building and 8-10 confident support groups every day and a new interactive journaling feature.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit the following link to learn more and\/or create a free account:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcabana.com\/members\/vdvs\">https:\/\/www.yourcabana.com\/members\/vdvs<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Members can also request all DVS services online at <a href=\"https:\/\/vvn.dvs.virginia.gov\/\">https:\/\/vvn.dvs.virginia.gov\/<\/a> and a local teammate will contact them to help with any of our agency services.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/vdf.virginia.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/VDVS_Cabana_Virtual-Support-Flyer-QR_10.17.24.pdf\">HERE<\/a> to download the flyer in PDF format.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2308\" src=\"https:\/\/media-offload-1.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2025\/09\/VDVS_Cabana_Virtual-Support-Flyer-QR_10.17.24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND, Va. \u2014 Virginia Defense Force personnel may access the Cabana mental health wellness platform through the Virginia Department of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[17,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wellness-resilience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vdf.virginia.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vdf.virginia.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vdf.virginia.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vdf.virginia.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vdf.virginia.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vdf.virginia.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"https:\/\/vdf.virginia.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vdf.virginia.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vdf.virginia.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vdf.virginia.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vdf.virginia.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}