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Minnesota veterans agency outlines suicide-prevention strategy and new health navigator program
Summary
The Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs described region-based analysis, a new veteran health navigator service funded by the Lee and Penny Anderson Foundation, and collaborative projects—including a suicide mortality review and local crisis mapping—during the Senate veterans subcommittee hearing on Feb. 24, 2025.
Rachel Johnson, director of Veteran Community-Based Services at the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs, told the Senate Subcommittee on Veterans and Military Affairs on Feb. 24 that the department is organizing region-based work to address veteran suicide and launching a veteran health navigator program.
The department established the Veteran Community-Based Services team in June 2024 and is overseeing a veteran suicide prevention program and a veteran health navigator program that will hire three social workers (including a supervisor or manager). Johnson said the work includes training and education partnerships, data analysis, crisis-intercept mapping in Chippewa County, a suicide mortality review beginning in Northeast Minnesota and collaboration with…
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