by Military Times | Jul 21, 2022
Defense Department officials would be required to better track whether certain military jobs lend themselves to higher incidents of mental health distress and suicide attempts under language inserted in the Senate’s annual defense authorization bill draft. The...
by Michael Toschak | Jul 8, 2022
On Saturday, July 2 was the 3rd annual Suicide Prevention Ride in Redwood City. The Independence Day weekend ride raised almost $5,000 for the Palo Alto VA Suicide Prevention program. This was a 22-mile ride from The American Legion Post 105 to the Palo Alto VA to...
by Christian Southards | Jun 30, 2022
An updated U.S. Government Accountability Office report says the U.S. Department of Veterans has taken positive steps to improve “health outcomes” for LGBT veterans since the initial report was published in fall 2019. The original GAO report notes that LGBT veterans...
by Christian Southards | Jun 23, 2022
On June 23, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the STRONG Veterans Act, sending the bill to the Senate for further debate. The act, which is officially titled the Support the Resiliency of Our Nation’s Great Veterans Act of 2022, expands mental health care...
by Christian Southards | Jun 1, 2022
On May 27, two veterans bills introduced by Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) were advanced to the California Senate. The first bill, AB 2032, would establish a “Green Alert emergency system” managed by the California Highway Patrol, or CHP, to combat...
by Christian Southards | May 18, 2022
On May 13, the office of Governor Gavin Newsome announced that $50 million in state funding would be used to establish the California Veterans Health Initiative, or CVHI, with the purpose of ending veteran suicide in the state. According to the California Department...
