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Minority Veterans of America urges equity safeguards as Fox program is reauthorized
Summary
Minority Veterans of America told the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee that veterans from historically marginalized groups face heightened suicide risk and that program reauthorization must embed equity, culturally competent care, disaggregated data and protection of identity-specific services.
The executive director of Minority Veterans of America urged the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee to center equity in reauthorizing suicide-prevention grants and to restore policies and data practices that identify disparities for historically underserved veterans.
"When we erase identity, we erase risk," Lindsay Church testified. She said her organization serves veterans "who have been historically excluded and underserved: women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, religious minorities, folks with disabilities, and those…
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