RACINE â âComing from military service, youâre used to a lot of camaraderie, people being there for you,â said Cheldon Payton. âYour coworkers are sometimes like your family.â
In the civilian world, it is not always like that. Payton, who lives in Kenosha, experienced added strain because the friends he had prior to enlisting in the Army were not the same as he remembered. They had changed.
âI felt like there was a big change, and I didnât want to get used to it at first,â Payton said.
Veterans Treatment Courts were designed to divert veterans from the criminal justice system and into programs where either substance abuse or mental health issues could be treated.