Being a struggling veteran can be a lonely experience. An experience I deal with on many days. And you can take that loneliness and multiply it for women veterans.

This is simply because of numbers and exclusive services. There are fewer women veterans. This means there are fewer portals for support. Even if there are women services available at organizations that help both genders, there may only be a handful of women looking for support there at a given time.

A new center in Alabama is doing their part to change that (story HERE).

The Huntsville Military Women’s Community Center will be a hub that offers both direct services like peer support and daycare, as well as serve as a venue for housing, mental health and transportation services for partner organizations.

While partnerships are a popular buzz word with many places, the partnerships duties here are defined. Drake State will send client referrals and the University of Alabama Huntsville will actually have students working intake.

It’s all going to be needed. And really, we need more women only centers all over the United States.

That is because there is an understanding both at women only organizations and men only organizations that can only be met with that kind of exclusivity.

It’s not entirely different from active duty where you’ve got women only quarters and men only quarters. There is a camaraderie of both brotherhoods and sisterhoods that is much stronger with those relationships.

This is great news for the women veterans of Huntsville. Much luck to all of them.