Resources for Veterans

Applications are open for the 2024 Distinguished Service to Veterans Award.

Benefits

Access and manage VA benefits 

National Personnel Records Center (NPRC)  

Business Opportunity

Program

Services

Contact

City of Fort Worth Diversity & Inclusion Department

The Business Opportunity Division supports capacity-building efforts for aspiring and existing Veteran Owned Firms and assists in gaining contracts and sub-contracting opportunities.

817-392-2675

Danielle.Jackson@fortworthtexas.gov

City of Fort Worth Economic Development Department

Devoyd Jennings Business Assistance Center (BAC): a one-stop shop for small business, dedicated to providing small business owners with the tools they need to be successful.

Guide to Starting a Business: Starting a business can be complicated. View the Guide to Starting a Business page for step-by-step assistance.

Dexter Sykes

Small Business Specialist

817-392-2647

Dexter.Sykes@fortworthtexas.gov

Small Business Administration (SBA)

Offers various programs and services to support veterans as they venture into business ownership. Boots to Business/ Service-Disabled Veteran Entrepreneurship Training Program (SDVETP) and Federal Contracting Opportunities.

817-684-5500

Bridget.Moon@sba.gov

University of Texas at Arlington Veterans Business Outreach Center

Provides complementary collaborative, hands-on, interactive learning opportunities, including classroom instruction and opportunities to work with experienced coaches and mentors, attend workshops, and develop connections for contacts.

Please request free assistance to schedule an appointment.

 

New Veteran-Owned Business and Texas Franchise Tax 

A qualifying new veteran-owned business is not subject to franchise tax for its initial five-year period. For reports due prior to 2024, a qualifying entity must file Form 05-163, Texas Franchise Tax No Tax Due Report. For a new veteran-owned business to qualify for the five-year franchise tax exemption, there are three steps. Learn more and find relevant forms.

 

 

 

Discounts & Complimentary Offers

City of Fort Worth Facilities  

Membership Type

Regular Price

Military Price

Adult- Year

$40

$30

Fitness (Bronze) – Year

$78

$63

Fitness Bronze – (Month)

$9

$8

Fitness (Silver) – Year

$115

$95

Fitness (Silver) – Month

$14

$12

Fitness (Gold) – Year

$190

$158

Fitness (Gold) - Month

$24

$20

Adult Day Pass

$7

$6
  • Fort Worth Botanic Garden: free admission for active duty military personnel including National Guard and Reserve and up to five family members each summer beginning on Armed Forces Day in mid-May and ending on Labor Day at the beginning of September as part of the Blue Star Museums partnership.
  • Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge: $1 discount per person in vehicle with military ID.
  • Golf: $5 off before 12 p.m. and $3 off after 12 p.m. Must show active military ID at all City of Fort Worth golf courses.
  • Log Cabin Village: free admission for active duty military personnel including National Guard and Reserve and their families each summer beginning on Armed Forces Day in mid-May and ending on Labor Day at the beginning of September as part of the Blue Star Museums partnership.

Events 

  • Vet Tix: Free tickets to sporting events, concerts, performing arts, educational and family activities across the nation 

Retail Discounts 

  • ID.me: Military discounts at major retail stores 

Texas Parks & Wildlife 

 

Education

 

Employment

Program

Services

Contact

Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) of Tarrant County - Veterans Assistance

Assists all veterans, their spouses and dependents, with navigating veteran services and provides case management for goal setting, assessing employment, and education skills. Open to all veterans, dependents, and surviving spouses.

817-569-4034

Mina.McWhorter@unitedwaytarrant.org

City of Fort Worth Human Resources

The City of Fort Worth has a variety of roles that we have to offer for people eager to join our organization.Check the Job Board for the latest postings.

Additionally, City of Fort Worth is a Skillbridge Partner Agency.Through the SkillBridge program industry partners benefit from gaining early access to the extensive experience, skills, and unmatched work ethos Service members bring to the workforce.Check for current City of Fort Worth SkilldBridge opportunities (search "City of Fort Worth" on the DOD SkillBridge website).

817-392-7750

Jobs:TalentAcquisition@fortworthtexas.gov

SkillBridge: skillbridge@fortworthtexas.gov

 

 

CLC, Inc HARTH (Home Adjustment Program)

Provides employment related services to veterans, including resume development, referral to employer partners, preferential interviews, skills training from CLC case management and job search assistance

817-569-9008 ext. 16

Community Based Employment Services (CBES)/Transitional Work (TW)- Fort Worth Veterans Health Administration Vocational Rehabilitation (VHA VR)

Open to all veterans eligible for VA health care that are living with mental health illness or physical impairment with barriers to employment, such as experiencing homelessness and criminal justice involvement Description: provides rapid employment services to those who are work ready, along with vocational support and resources needed for a veteran to successfully transition to permanent competitive employment.
 Goodwill North Central Texas - VetWorthy

VetWorthy provides military veterans and their families with job development and skills training support.

Goodwill North Central Texas Professional Truck Driving Training Program(PDF, 535KB)

  817-332-7866

vetworthy@goodwillnct.org

National Veterans Outreach Program - Veteran Workforce Initiative

Assists with employment services for veterans who have been recently released, disabled, been involved with the judicial system, and/or are currently experiencing homelessness.

817-289-0055

Application

Off-Base Transition Training (OBTT)

Opportunities earned through service for veterans, veterans serving in the National Guard and Reserve, and their spouses, to take control of their career through employment related workshops.

682-681-4764

Charlie.Webster@serco-na.com
 

Pathfinders

Pathfinders provide the following services for Veterans to support them as they work toward social and financial well-being: Mentoring, Financial Coaching, Employment Coaching, and Emergency Financial Assistance.

817-731-1173

Peter.Pena@pathfinderstc.org

Texas Workforce Commission - Texas Veterans Leadership Program

Connects returning veterans with the resources they need to maximize employment opportunities in transition to civilian life.

888-838-8391

tvlp@twc.texas.gov

 

Filing VA Claims

Program

Contact

Disabled American Veterans

817- 336-1881

Overseas Military Services Coordinators

Contact varies by country

Paralyzed Veterans of America Dallas VA Medical Center

 zeldah@pva.org

 

Tarrant County Veterans Service Agency

817-531-5645

VeteranServices@tarrantcountytx.gov

Texas Veterans Commission

 info@tvc.texas.gov

 

Wounded Warrior Project

888.WWP.ALUM (997.2586)

resourcecenter@woundedwarriorproject.org

Healthcare, Mental Health

Program

Services

Contact
Fort Worth Vet Center Offers confidential help for Veterans, service members, and their families at no cost in a non-medical setting. Services include counseling for needs such as depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the psychological effects of military sexual trauma (MST).

817-921-9095

Locations
Guitars for Vets Guitar instruction program aimed at providing Veterans struggling with physical injuries, PTSD, and other emotional distress a unique therapeutic alternative. 469-328-1538

tx.dallas@guitarsforvets.org
Helping Restore Ability - VetAssist Program Helps veterans or their surviving spouse who apply for a pension from the Department of Veterans Affairs and use the pension primarily for private-duty home care. 817-469-1977
Marriage Management

Services include Suicide Ideation and Behaviors, Marriage/Family/Relationship Concerns Services. Veterans and Dependents receive six to eight hours of peer-led interactive marriage and relationship education based on the evidence-based curriculum Couple Links-Military by LoveThinks.

 

 682.730.1818

info@marriagemanagement.org

 

 
Veterans Crisis Line Free, 24/7, confidential support. Serves Veterans, service members, National Guard and Reserve members, and those who support them.

Call: 988 and select 1

Text: 838255

 

Housing, Financial Assistance

Program

Services                               

Contact

City of Fort Worth Neighborhood Services Department

Forward Home Program

Helps veterans, surviving spouses, and their families by providing them with one-time rental/mortgage and utility payments to prevent homelessness.

 

817-392-8255

ruby.rubio@fortworthtexas.gov

How to Apply
 Healthy Homes for Heroes Assists with modifications to ensure that veterans will be able to remain in a healthy home.

 

  

817-392-8255

ruby.rubio@fortworthtexas.gov

How to Apply

 

CLC, Inc

COIN (Combatants Overcoming Income Needs)

One-time financial assistance to low-income combat veterans, surviving spouses of combat veterans or spouses of combat veterans that are the resident of a long-term treatment facility in the state of Texas. Financial assistance is available for: rental/mortgage assistance, auto repairs, auto payments, bus passes, child care and utilities.

817-569-9008

info@clcinc.org

HARTH (Home Adjustment Program)

Provides employment related services to veterans, including resume development, referral to employer partners, preferential interviews, skills training from CLC case management and job search assistance.

817-569-9008 ext. 16
 

Endeavors, Fort Worth 

 

Veteran Supportive Services (VSS)

 

 

Provides rapid re-housing and prevents homelessness among eligible veterans and their families. Emergency Financial Assistance-short-term emergency housing, rental/utility payment, obtaining VA benefits and services, mental health resources, access to substance abuse programs, job placement assistance, skills and parenting workshops.

817-537-5370

info@endeavors.org
Meals on Wheels of Tarrant County
 

Home-Delivered Meals and Client Assistance programs

Veterans who meet our program eligibility requirements are assigned to a dedicated veteran case manager, funded by the Texas Veterans Commission Fund, who will help them navigate programs and services offered by Meals On Wheels as well as other community services.

817-336-0912

Request services
Recovery Resource Council

Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF)

One-time rental/mortgage and utility payments to prevent homelessness for veterans, surviving spouses, and their families.

817-332-6329

ssvfmail@resourcerecovery.org
 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
 

VA North Texas Homeless Veterans Care

 Assistance for Veterans who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless due to financial hardship, unemployment, addiction, depression, or transition from jail.

Artie Williams LCSW

214-857-0230

 
 

National Call Center for Homeless Veterans

Veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness—and their family members, friends and supporters—can make the call to or chat online with the National Call Center for Homeless Veterans, where trained counselors are ready to talk confidentially 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

 

877-424-3838 

 

 

Legal

Program

Services

Contact

Legal Aid of Northwest Texas - Veterans Project

Provides legal services to eligible veterans and family members DFW with primary focus on expunctions, nondisclosures and other barrier removal work. 

817-336-3943

888-529-5277

Tarrant County Veterans Treatment Court

The Veterans Treatment Court is a diversion program for Justice Involved Veterans (JIV) who are currently facing prosecution for one or more criminal cases. The program offers offenders a treatment option that is judicially supervised.

817-884-3225

VeteransCourt@tarrantcounty.com

Texas A&M University School of Law the Family and Veterans Advocacy Clinic

Free help from the attorneys and law students at the Family and Veterans Advocacy Clinic at Texas A&M School of Law for qualifying individuals.

817-212-4123

Texas Lawyers for Texas Veterans- Tarrant County Bar Association

Open to all veterans and surviving spouses, providing them with free legal counsel and advice clinics to veterans and the surviving spouses of deceased veterans. Areas of law covered at legal clinics include: family law wills, estate planning and probate, employment, housing and landlord/tenant, consumer bankruptcy, guardianship, criminal defense.

817-338-4092

intern@tarrantbar.org

 

Parking

City of Fort Worth Street Parking Meters 

Vehicles displaying the following license plates may park free of charge at a parking meter operated by City of Fort Worth. However, the vehicles must adhere to the meter time limit posted on each meter. 

  • (Congressional) Medal of Honor 

  • Air Force Cross Medal 

  • Air and Air with Valor Medals 

  • Airman's Medal 

  • Army Distinguished Service Cross Medal 

  • Bronze Star and Bronze Star with Valor Medals 

  • Coast Guard Medal 

  • Defense Meritorious Service Medal 

  • Defense Superior Service Medal 

  • Disabled Veteran 

  • Distinguished Flying Cross Medal 

  • Distinguished Service Medal 

  • Legion of Merit Medal 

  • Meritorious Service Medal 

  • Navy and Marine Corps Medal 

  • Navy Cross Medal 

  • Pearl Harbor Survivor 

  • Prisoner of War Medal 

  • Purple Heart Medal 

  • Silver Star Medal 

  • Soldier's Medal 

  • World War II 

Disabled Veteran License Plates: DFW Airport Parking fees are waived for vehicles bearing Disabled Veteran license plates issued by the State of Texas or any other U.S. state that indicate on the face of the license plate that the owner of the vehicle is a Disabled Veteran of the United States armed forces. 

Military Specialty License Plates: DFW Airport parking fees are waived for vehicles bearing any of the following military specialty license plates issued by the State of Texas: 

  • Airman’s Medal 

  • Air Medal 

  • Air Medal with Valor 

  • Bronze Star Medal 

  • Bronze Star Medal with Valor 

  • Coast Guard Medal 

  • Commendation Medal and Commendation Medal with Valor for each branch of the military and for joint service 

  • Congressional Medal of Honor 

  • Defense Meritorious Service Medal 

  • Defense Superior Service Medal 

  • Distinguished Flying Cross medal with Valor 

  • Distinguished Flying Cross 

  • Distinguished Service Medal 

  • Legion of Merit 

  • Legion of Valor (issued for recipients of Air Force Cross, Air Force Distinguished Service Cross, Army Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross or Medal of Honor) 

  • Meritorious Service Medal 

  • Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal 

  • Navy and Marine Corps Medal 

  • Pearl Harbor Survivor 

  • Prisoner of War Medal 

  • Purple Heart 

  • Silver Star Medal 

  • Soldier’s Medal 

  • WWII Veteran 

 

Property Tax Exemptions

Tarrant Appraisal District (TAD) is responsible for local property tax appraisal and exemption administration for seventy-three jurisdictions or taxing units in the county. 

 

100% Disabled Veteran (or Surviving Spouse) Exemption 

  • A disabled veteran who receives 100% disability compensation due to a service connected disability and a rating of 100% disabled or of individual unemployability from the Department of Veterans Affairs can receive an exemption from taxation of the total appraised value of the veteran's qualifying residence homestead. 

  • Surviving spouses of veterans who qualified for the 100% Disabled Veteran Exemption or who would have qualified for it at the time of their death are eligible if the surviving spouse has not remarried, the property was the surviving spouse's residence homestead at the time of the veteran's death, and the property remains the surviving spouse's qualifying residence homestead. A qualifying surviving spouse may transfer a flat dollar amount to a subsequent residence if the qualifying spouse has not remarried. 

Donated Residence of Partially Disabled Veteran (or Surviving Spouse) 

  • Texas law provides partial exemptions for property owned by veterans who are disabled and who own and occupy homes that have been donated by a charitable organization. The exemption amount is determined by the percentage of service-connected disability. 

  • To qualify, you must be a veteran, a Texas resident, and be classified as disabled with a service connected disability of 10% or more by your service branch or the Veterans Administration. 
  • A surviving spouse may qualify for this exemption if they are a Texas resident and have not remarried. 

Surviving Spouse of a Armed Services Member Killed in Line of Duty Exemption 

  • The surviving spouse of a member of the U.S. armed services who was killed or fatally injured in the line of duty is allowed a 100% property tax exemption on a residence homestead if they have not remarried. 

More Information & Exemption Application

 

Recognition Opportunities

 

Transportation

Program

Services

Contact

Transportation 4 Heroes

Provides payment-free vehicles to combat-wounded Veterans and to unmarried Gold Star spouses whose loved ones were killed in action that live within a one-hour travel radius to Fort Worth.

877-595-3801

enroll@transportation4heroes.org

 

Referral Services

 

Program

Services

Contact

 
 

Texas Veterans Network powered by Combined Arms

The Texas Veterans Network (TVN) is the first interconnected state consisting of more than 300 veteran-focused community-based organizations and government agencies and thousands of resources that holistically serve the veteran and military community. To obtain no-cost assistance within 19 categories such as: veteran benefits, career services, mental/life wellness, entrepreneurship resources, financial assistance, social options, legal assistance, and more.

Register for the Veteran and Supporters Portal

 
United Way of Tarrant County - Mission United UWTC Texas Veterans Network Intake Specialists, all veterans or veteran spouses, gain clients’ trust then expertly, seamlessly, and equitably navigate them to vetted, reliable, and appropriate resources. They address unmet needs in N. Texas per TVC’s 2020 Needs Assessment: healthcare, clinical counseling, short-term financial assistance, and employment support; and remove key service barriers: understanding benefits, directing to high quality, affordable help, and following up on appointments.

 

 844-489-8387

bill.johnson@unitedwaytarrant.org

 

To suggest that a resource be added or edited email Joaquin.Castillo@FortWorthTexas.gov.

 

 

Contact

Joaquin Castillo
City of Fort Worth Veterans Affairs Officer
817-392-7703
Joaquin.Castillo@FortWorthTexas.gov

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