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Brookings residents press council for more veterans services, housing and volunteer follow-up
Summary
At the Jan. 13 Brookings City Council meeting, residents urged the council to support expanded veterans mental-health screening, pursue unused state veterans housing funds and improve volunteer coordination and outreach.
Connie Hunter, a founding secretary of the VA Roseburg Mental Health Advocacy Council and veterans and tribal liaison for state Representative Court Boyce, told the Brookings City Council on Jan. 13 that local advocates are working to improve brain-injury screening and access to care for veterans.
“We convened a previous veterans brain injury providers workshop and veterans community town hall,” Hunter said, and she described a presentation she helped develop titled “Brain Injury Screening is Suicide Prevention.” Hunter said the group is planning another town hall and provider workshop on April 25 to connect veterans and families with services and to discuss incarceration and post‑incarceration supports for veterans.
Hunter also raised housing as a near‑term opportunity. She told the council that, according to her information, the…
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