Veterans

Mental Health Peer Specialists

Peer Support Specialists, Veterans Affairs Administration

Reports/Articles/Webinars

VA provides free emergency suicide prevention care to nearly 50,000 Veterans and former service members in first year of new policy, VA News, 2024
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Crisis Intercept Mapping for Service Members, Veterans and their Families, SAMHSA 2022
PowerPoint,  Webinar Recording

 State of the Veteran Community Report​ , 2018 CAVSA

Invisible Wounds:  Mental Health and Cognitive Care Needs of America's Returning Veterans: RAND (2008)

Removing Barriers to Mental Health Services for Veterans, American Public Health Association (2014)

Majority of California veterans who need mental health care receive inadequate or no treatment, UCLA Newsroom (2016)​

Resources

CalVet Veterans Services

1. Crisis Intervention
2. Disability Compensation
3. Family & Readjustment Counseling

Veterans Treatment Courts, courts.ca.gov

​Help for Service Members and Their Families, MentalHealth.gov (US Dept HHS)

​Veterans Benefit Enhancement (VBE) Project, DHCS

Older Veteran Behavioral Health Resource Inventory, US Department of Veterans Affairs
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County/Local
Eureka:  Gray Matters: Program assists local veterans, Times Standard (2017)

Veterans Crisis Line logo with phone number; 1-800-273-8255