About DCoE

Mission:
Improving the lives of our nation’s service members, families and veterans by advancing excellence in psychological health and traumatic brain injury prevention and care.

Vision:
To be the Department of Defense’s trusted source and advocate for psychological health and traumatic brain injury knowledge and standards, and profoundly improve the system of care.

Strategic Objectives:
DCoE has established strategic objectives, illustrated in our 2012-2105 Strategy Map , which address the most important things we need to do well to be successful as a center of excellence and to achieve our mission, vision and value proposition.

Overview:
The Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) was established in November 2007 to integrate knowledge and identify, evaluate and disseminate evidence based practices and standards for the treatment of psychological health and TBI within the Defense Department. DCoE is part of the Military Health System, which provides a ‘continuum of care’ – from initial accession to deployment to discharge. DCoE works across the entire continuum of care to promote resilience, rehabilitation and reintegration for warriors, families and veterans with psychological health concerns and traumatic brain injuries.

DCoE leads a groundbreaking collaborative effort that includes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), civilian agencies, community leaders, advocacy groups, clinical experts and academic institutions that are dedicated to expanding the state of knowledge of psychological health and TBI.

In addition, DCoE's Real Warriors Campaign is working to encourage help-seeking behavior for warriors with post-traumatic stress or mTBI.

Structure:
DCoE brings together five directorates and three centers. Their joint goal is to maximize opportunities for warriors and families to thrive through a collaborative global network to promote resilience, recovery and reintegration for PH and TBI.

Centers:

	Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center			National Center for Telehealth & Technology
	Deployment Health Clinical Center

Information Kit and Annual Reports:

	DCoE Information Kit Information Kit CD Contents			Psychological Health & Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Historical Reference Dashboard
	DCoE Annual Report (2011)			DCoE Annual Report (2010) Print-quality version
	DCoE Annual Report (2008-2009) Print-quality version

Recognition of DCoE Programs & Services

DCoE DoD Sports Collaborations