For veterans who may be watching or listening to the hearing, we want you to know that we care.
Providing counseling to the counselors.
Thank you very much. And in that regard, I would compliment you.
In Kansas, we have 105 counties, all of them are covered by a community mental health center.
As long as there is even one Veteran suicide in any community anywhere in our country, we should not rest.
The suicide prevention team is there in that moment of acute crisis.
I don't know that you'd know this, but the amount of geography that you cover or the number of veterans, it's a signific...
Do we have a separate path that the Department of Veterans Affairs believes this is the care and treatment that should b...
let's see if we can get it resolved and solved for the benefit of our veterans.
In my view, this has been useful.
My final and usual question in a hearing like this is, is there anybody on the panel who feels like they have not had th...
I think that's a good point. There are certain things that the VA has through history and volume, experience, and the co...
it appears to me that there are significant impediments and not much results in the hiring of these professionals.
There are many veterans and many veteran family members and friends who don't know what services are available.
We should treat the loss of even one Veteran to suicide as a national tragedy and the loss of 20 Veterans a day as a nat...
You would have to have a Medicare provider number in order to...
I would also highlight, this may be nationwide, but in Kansas, we have mobile vet centers who travel the state in a larg...
Awareness is one thing, but this is a call to action.
