Women Veterans' Health Care: VA Efforts to Respond to the Challenge of Providing Sexual Trauma Counseling

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed sexual trauma counseling services for women veterans in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), focusing on: (1) the extent to which sexual trauma counseling services are available in VA; (2) the extent to which women veterans use these services; and (3) what VA is doing to assess the effectiveness of its sexual trauma counseling programs.