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Text Messaging to Prevent Suicide Text Messaging to Prevent Suicide

In an effort to prevent suicide, the Department of Veterans Affairs is expanding its Veterans Crisis Line with a confidential text-messaging service and introduction of toll-free access from Europe. “Offering text messaging services will help VA reach more Veterans and their friends and families,” said Dr. Janet Kemp, the VA’s national mental... [Read more...]

VA Budget Request: $140 billion VA Budget Request: $140 billion

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ recently released a report about the President’s proposed $140.3 billion budget for the VA for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. If approved by Congress, the budget would fund services for newly discharged veterans, continue the drive to end veteran homelessness, reduce the disability claims backlog, improve collaboration... [Read more...]

Bruce’s Story: Back on His Feet, Working Toward a Goal Bruce’s Story: Back on His Feet, Working Toward a Goal

Bruce, a veteran who asked that only his first name be used, found himself in a downward spiral that started in his teens with “a long line of bad decisions” and ended with a stay at New Horizons, a transitional-living center for homeless veterans in Hebron, Illinois. TLS Veterans, a not-for-profit group formed by veterans to help veterans, owns... [Read more...]

Asbestos-Related Health Hazards Among Veterans Asbestos-Related Health Hazards Among Veterans

Countless veterans are currently suffering from life-threatening illnesses that are a result of exposure to asbestos, a material that was commonly used in hundreds of military products and shipyards because of its resistance to fire, wrote Carl Jewett in an e-mail to TLS. Jewett is a retired lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy. He now is working to... [Read more...]

The VA on Vets and Homelessness

VA & HUD Report to Congress on Homeless Vets VA & HUD Report to Congress on Homeless Vets

The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have published an analysis of the extent and nature of homelessness among veterans. According to HUD and VA’s assessment, nearly 76,000 veterans were homeless on a given night in 2009 while roughly 136,000... [Read more...]

National Call Center for Homeless Veterans National Call Center for Homeless Veterans

Help for homeless veterans is a phone call away As part of a five-year plan to end homelessness among veterans, the VA has founded a hotline to ensure that homeless veterans or veterans at-risk for homelessness have free, 24/7 access to trained counselors. The hotline is intended to assist... [Read more...]