The U.S. Department of Veterans Affair's Veterans Benefits Administration's Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) service primary benefit program is vocational rehabilitation services for veterans who have a service-connected disability. To receive services, a veteran must be found both eligible and entitled.

Educational and Vocational Counseling is provided for eligible service members, veterans, and veterans' dependents. The outcome of this counseling is assistance in the selection of an educational or vocational goal and / or assistance in the selection of training institutions where this goal may be pursued. Additionally the VR&E program provides educational and vocational counseling benefits for eligible dependent children of Vietnam veterans born with certain birth defects or children of Vietnam or Korean veterans born with Spina Bifida. In order to be considered for this benefit program, you must be the biological child of a veteran who served in Vietnam or on the Korean demilitarized zone during certain periods in the 1960s or 1970s. You must have been conceived after the veteran served some time in one of those two places.

If you are interested in applying to ACAS to pursue a vocational education that will prepare you for a career working with dogs and their caregivers and you are a veteran with a disability, look over our Professional Development Program in Canine Behavior Counseling or our Associate in Science Degree Program in Dog Training, Care and Caregiver Counseling and consider contacting a VR&E counselor in your state. Click here to find the VR&E agency in your state or contact our Disability Services Officer, U.S.A.F. Sgt. Hector Rosario (retired), Vice President and Chief Information Officer at 800-403-3347, ext 712. Our VR&E facility school code is 21060810.