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Veterans and Military Affairs staff outline family readiness, suicide-prevention and installation resiliency efforts
Summary
Deputy Director Brian Garrett told the commission the department has expanded family programs, launched suicide-prevention work and is managing installation easements and a Great Salt Lake Sentinel Landscape to protect bases and support surrounding communities.
Deputy Director Brian Garrett of the Utah Department of Veterans and Military Affairs told the Veterans and Military Affairs Commission that the department has expanded family readiness and installation-resiliency work and is coordinating a range of programs to support service members, veterans and their families.
Garrett said the department now organizes its military-affairs work into two main lines of effort: family readiness and installation resiliency. He said the legislature funded new staff positions over the last year, including Mike Miller as family programs manager and Cale Smith overseeing suicide prevention and resilience work.
The report described several recent program milestones. Garrett said state-funded military support teams placed in Davis County, Ogden, Weber and Tooele have assisted more than 800 military and veteran…
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