The State - News from Aug. 25, 1988

The Veterans Administration has opened a mental health clinic in San Francisco specifically for female veterans. The clinic, which offers short-term individual counseling and group sessions, was opened to serve about 64,000 female veterans in Northern California, said Gloria Svare, a psychiatric social worker and clinic director. So far, about 50 women ages 27 to 71 have gone to the clinic for problems including depression and substance abuse. The clinic, one of the first in the nation, is affiliated with the San Francisco Veterans Administration Hospital. “A lot of women joined the military thinking the service would improve their lives,” Svare said. “But for many of them, it didn’t turn out that way.”