Military Partners with LA County for Veterans’ Mental Health
December 18th, 2009
The need for a greater attention to the mental health of those in the armed services has been highlighted lately, and while national offices have both suggested new initiatives and made a few blunders in an attempt to prepare for scores of returning soldiers from the Middle East, smaller, locally-based efforts are also being produced. Recently, the military has teamed with Los Angeles County to create a pilot mental health program intended to help veterans avoid mental health issues and to reach out to homeless veterans as well as those who may become homeless without intervention. The program will incorporate demographic information to help the military understand how best to meet veterans’ specific needs.
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Good to see initiatives being taken in this regard and especially so because they are aiming at a little personalization, as this kind of sessions do require it.
Better late than never! Although I’m glad to see that, it’s wrong that veterans still have to fight for programs like these. Those should be automatically given to them. I bet they thought they had left the battles behind too.
What I like about it is that it’s also the families of the veterans as well as the veterans themselves that will be helped, plus community organizations. The more that know what can be done when a vet is ready and willing to, the better they can support him.
Nice job, Los Angeles County! Now all you need do is convince every state in the country how valid and needed a program like this is so they will adopt it too and keep our vets off the streets.
And a program that is not just desperately needed, this is also a proactive one! Wonders will never cease.
3,000 veterans just in that one area too are taking part in the pilot. Can you imagine how many nationwide there are just like those 3000 that aren’t getting help?
Are any of you congressmen hearing these numbers? Hello!!!! Let’s kick it up a notch here!
Bravo, LA County. Good luck and I hope this program does everything you are hoping it shall to make a difference in a vet’s life. Long may it last.
I doubt how well a program designed for common people will work for those in the warfield…!
I live in the LA area and have seen so many needy demographics ignored in the past. This seems like it will be a step in the right direction.
It is good to see the military partnering with a county…the combined funds will ensure good mental health care for both citizens and the armed personnel, who are exposed to so much stress…
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