Veteran & Family Services
Veteran & Family Services
567 Swanson Drive Lawrenceville
770.822.8850 | 678.226.9177
Monday – Friday | 8:00am – 5:00pm
Thank you for your service and sacrifice for your country!
Recognizing, understanding, and assisting veterans and their families' unique needs is essential. Knowledgeable staff with a military background and veteran experience is onsite to help veterans and their families with various needs in collaboration with the Disabled American Veterans Gwinnett Chapter 90.
- Completing VA benefit forms
- Filing VA claims
- Education information
- Locate and apply for employment
- Assist in locating valuable resources and referrals for
- Health
- Housing
- Legal
- And more!
As a sign of Gwinnett County’s deep respect and admiration for those men and women wounded or killed in defense of our country, the Board of Commissioners proclaimed Gwinnett County as a Purple Heart County. To show deep respect and admiration, the County will:
- Fly the Purple Heart flag at the Fallen Heroes Memorial
- Encourage residents and business owners to purchase and display purple lights in and around their homes and/or properties
- Place Purple Heart County signs at the entrances to the County (in the near future)
- Many of our County parks will display a message in support of Purple Heart recipients on the marquee signs at park entrances.
- And beginning August 15, the following discounts will be applicable to recipients who show their DD214 discharge papers or Military Order of the Purple Heart membership card:
- 10 percent discount on park facility rentals
- 10 percent discount all admissions to pools, open gyms, and tennis centers
- 10 percent discount on programs/classes
- Free pet adoption
- Discounted Community Garden Plot through Harvest Gwinnett
- Free radon or soil test from Gwinnett UGA Extension
Additional Services
If you need employment, housing, legal, supportive, or other veteran related information or services, consider the following organizations.
These independent organizations (outside of Gwinnett County government) maintain their own websites and operations:
Another Chance of Atlanta
678.974.5989
- Housing:
- Permanent supportive
- Residential
- Temporary
- Transitional
- Supportive services:
- Case management
- Clothing
- Coming Home Re-Entry Initiative
- Double Trouble in Recovery meetings
- Drug screening
- HIV testing and counseling
- Housing referrals
- Intake/screenings
- Medication monitoring
- Narcotics Anonymous meetings
- Peer support
- Personal growth plans
- Psycho-social assessments
- Recovery day management
- Residential management
- Resources
- United Way Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF)
- WorkFirst/Pre-Independent Living Program
Georgia Department of Veterans Service
Lawrenceville office: 404.321.6111
- Appeals
- Benefits
- Education/training
- Memorial
- Nursing
- Women’s services
Hire Heroes
Georgia Program Manager
470.280.0812
- Free job assistance
- Cvilian job employment search for military members, veterans, and military spouses
Hope Atlanta
Antoinette Fields, SSVF Community Relations and Compliance Manager
404.989.5359
- Programs of Travelers Aid of Compliance of Metropolitan Atlanta
- Employment
- Legal
- Healthcare Navigation
Lawrenceville Vet Center
930 River Centre Place, Lawrenceville 30043
678.442.3082
- Readjustment counseling
- Mobile vet center
Make the Connection
(U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
- Information
- Resources
Veterans Crisis Line
If you are a Veteran in crisis or concerned about one, connect with our caring and qualified responders for confidential help. Many of them are Veterans themselves.
- Call 988 and select 1
- Text 838255
- Start a confidential chat
- Call TTY if you have hearing loss 800.799.4889
