Annual Veteran Health and Wellness Summit

The Long Beach VA Healthcare System, University of California, Irvine, Orange County Health Care Agency, Strong Families, Strong Children, and the Orange County Veterans and Military Families Collaborative, in addition to several community agencies, will be presenting in-person at this year’s Summit on Enhancing Veteran Care Through Emerging Strategies and Treatments. Our goal is to continue to promote a collaborative community of care whose goal is to provide the continuity of care for our Veterans and their families in Orange County.

In addition to our keynote speaker, Dr. Shaista Malik, Executive Director at Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute; Associate Vice Chancellor, Integrative Health, this year’s Summit will include a resource fair and presentations on the following topics:

*Increasing Veteran Participation in Clinical Trials

*Crisis Response and the Launch of 988 (a three-digit number for National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and Veterans Crisis line).

*Robotics and Prosthetics

*Psychedelics-assisted psychotherapy (PAP)

*Suicide Prevention

*Whole Health

*Peer Support

* CEU/CME pending

Host or Publisher Long Beach VA HCS, OCHCA, SIS, Orange County Veterans Military and Families Collaborative (OCVMFC), Health and Wellness Working Group, SFSC