The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is announcing new funding to help local communities tailor their suicide prevention programs. The agency will be awarding $52 million in grants to 85 organizations across 41 states, part of the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program.
Veterans are dying by suicide at an alarming rate — one death every 85 minutes.In an effort to address the staggering numbers, the Department of Veterans Affairs is announcing Thursday new funding to help local communities tailor their suicide prevention programs. The agency will be awarding $52 million in grants to 85 organizations across 41 states. It's all part of the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program.
According to new data released first to Scripps News, that program has provided care since its January 2023 launch to more than 74,000 veterans.Dan Miller, a 30-year Marine Corp. veteran, realized he needed to seek mental health services before it was too late.'I never really thought I would ever end up in that position,' he told Scripps News.'So, I was sitting there, and I had the gun to my head,' he recalled.'I was just tired,' Miller said. 'I was just so tired.
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