Bay Shore facility to treat veterans, families
Photo credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams, Jr. | Kenneth Storz, a retired U.S. Army Reservist, talks with Dr. Robert Petzel at the opening of the Unified Behavioral Health Center for Military Veterans and their families in Bay Shore. (Dec. 4, 2012)
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Kenneth Storz, a retired Army Reserve colonel, said he and his family struggled to adjust to his return from combat in Iraq in 2006. His son was resentful. His daughter was withdrawn.
But because the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs facility at Northport cannot routinely provide mental health care to children, Storz said he could not go there for the family psychotherapy he felt was needed...
