Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office
MAYS LANDING – The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office Veteran’s Diversion Program is seeking veterans of all military branches to enlist as volunteer mentors. Volunteer mentors are linked with particular vets to help shepherd them through the process of the ACPO Veteran’s Diversion Program, Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner announced today in a release.
Volunteer Mentors are trained by the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to work with fellow veterans through the diversion process. DMAVA Veterans Service Officers can be helpful sources of assistance in claims work, VA health-care referrals, educational assistance through the GI Bill, property tax deductions or exemptions, Civil Service Veterans Preference, death benefits, homeless veterans resources, State health-care services for veterans, etc.
Mentors will protect a veteran’s welfare and diligently seek to assist veterans who are charged with certain qualifying crimes and are eligible for diversion to rehabilitative treatment in lieu of the traditional criminal justice process. The program involves intensive supervision and monitoring of a veteran’s treatment by an applicable treatment provider, the Veterans Administration, the Prosecutor’s Office, and a volunteer mentor assigned to support the veteran.
Learn more about the mentorship program at https://www.acpo.org/acpo-veterans-diversion-program-in-need-of-veterans-of-all-military-branches-to-serve-as-volunteer-mentors/ or contact Chief Assistant Prosecutor Rick McKelvey at mckelvey_r@acpo.org or at 609-909-7800.
