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VSOs and researchers push community partnerships, residential care and targeted grants to reduce veteran suicide
Summary
Witnesses including the Daniello Institute and Wounded Warrior Project urged Congress to strengthen community‑based suicide prevention, reauthorize and improve the Fox program, expand residential mental health capacity and fund outcome‑driven evaluations of programs that work.
Multiple witnesses at the joint hearing urged Congress to invest in evidence‑driven, community‑based suicide prevention and to bolster residential and peer‑support programs that reach veterans outside traditional VA settings.
Raymond Tennyson of the Daniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families said the VA’s national suicide report makes clear that suicide rates remain “unacceptably high” and that economic, housing and health stressors compound risk. He recommended stronger data standards,…
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