You can't assume that just because a person is a veteran that they can be helpful. You have to leverage the strengths of veterans and couple it with people who are experts in certain fields.
For instance, on some of our programs, and I'll take COPE as an example, the clinicians aren't necessarily veterans, but they are people who understand uniformed service and trauma. They're some of the best in the country in caring for people. What we have in that group is one couple who have worked through the program and who come back a year later to give that credibility to the clinicians and that language. They become the peer mentors for that group. So you're using the veteran's strength, but then you're tapping into the expertise that is out there in society.
One of the great difficulties—and we know that it happens—within the veterans space generally is that there are a number of people who are ill and injured. Because they're ill and injured, they really want to take on a lot and help the other ill and injured, and they're not in a position to do that. The program doesn't end up being that successful, and they end up doing harm to themselves, sadly.
You need to take their strengths and surround them with people who are experts and who are supportive from other professions, and use both, so that they can talk to each other and bridge that gap.