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VA Solid Start, mental health outreach and spouse inclusion highlighted as key components of TAP
Summary
VA officials and veteran-service witnesses told a House subcommittee that VA’s Solid Start outreach and benefits counseling are central to preventing homelessness and connecting veterans to care; witnesses urged earlier and repeated TAP engagement and more spouse participation.
Department of Veterans Affairs witnesses and veteran service organizations told the House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee that early and repeated outreach after separation, in-person benefits counseling during TAP and better inclusion of spouses are critical to reducing post‑separation suicide, homelessness and underemployment.
John Green, Acting Executive Director of Outreach, Transition and Economic Development at VA, described VA Solid Start outreach as a multi-stage contact effort. Green said VA reaches newly separated veterans in three buckets — 0–90 days, 91–180 days and 181–365 days — and can make as…
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