Concern that affects everyone VA releases Request
for Information.
We should be caring
a lot more for our military people starting in
'Boot-camp and ending after
death'!
No longer waiting
for a veterans call for help!
We have billions of
tax dollars to spend on useless border walls.
Millions of tax
dollars to spend on a 'joke called a military parade'.
Billions of 'tax
break for the 25% of our rich in this country.
Nothing or close too
nothing to help our veterans.
And
This is just me
before I tell you my feeling on this subject!
Suicide,
a major public health concern that affects everyone
VA releases Request
for Information, seeks strategies for ways to end Veteran suicide
Suicide, a major public health concern that affects
everyone, takes the lives of an estimated 45,000 Americans–including 6,000
Veterans–each year. To combat Veteran suicide, trump recently signed
an executive order (EO) titled “National
Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End Suicide”
(PREVENTS), directing the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA) and the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council to co-chair
and create an interagency task force to develop a plan implementing a road map
for the prevention of Veteran suicide at the national and community level.
As a result, the task force is releasing a Request for Information
(RFI) to gather feedback on how to improve
research and the use of research to radically reduce Veteran suicide.
Through this RFI, and to ensure the broadest stakeholder input in the
development of the national research strategy, VA is seeking input on ways to
increase knowledge about factors influencing suicidal behaviors and ways to
prevent suicide; inform the development of a robust and forward-looking
research agenda; coordinate relevant research efforts across the Nation; and
measure progress on these efforts. The public input provided in response to
this RFI will inform the Veteran wellness, empowerment and suicide prevention
task force, who will develop and implement the national research strategy.
“Veteran
suicide requires an all-hands on-deck approach to preserve the lives of our
Veterans who have served our country,” said VA Secretary Robert Wilkie.
“This
is a call to action. In order to decrease the rate of Veteran suicide, we need
to engage our local and community partners in addition to leveraging the
resources of the departments.”
To
advance the president’s vision, the Office of Science and Technology, Executive
Office of the President and VA will lead the development of the national
research strategy to improve coordination, monitoring, benchmarking and
execution of public- and private-sector research related to the factors that
contribute to Veteran suicide.
All public comments regarding the RFI are welcome and
should be submitted by August 5, 2019, to ensure they are considered in the
national research strategy. Responses may be submitted online at https://www.research.va.gov/PREVENTS/.
