mental health
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The Veterans Affairs Administration is working with veterans service organizations to try to help them find mental health care.
March 16, 2018 -
Retired Army Green Beret Brian Anderson joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss the importance of a plan to ensure access to mental health treatment for new veterans.
February 13, 2018 -
The Veterans Affairs Department said it's having trouble meeting its hiring goal of 1,000 new mental health professionals by the end of the year.
September 27, 2017 How would a Republican-backed health care bill affect mental health programs in the US? Find out this week when Ron Honberg joins host Derrick Dortch on this week's Fed Access. May 12, 2017
May 04, 2017Kana Enomoto and Kaitlin White with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will discuss the programs and services provided by the agency to address substance abuse and mental health issues in America's communities. July 1, 2016
July 01, 2016-
OPM's Katherine Archuleta and HHS' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration release a memo providing guidance to agency leaders about how to identify individuals in mental health distress. The guidance also offers resources to federal employees looking for help.
June 23, 2014 -
On this week's Bloomberg Government Capital Impact show, analysts examine how the gun control debate will affect the demand for mental health services, and how contractors will be impacted by the President's new cybersecurity executive order. February 14, 2013
February 14, 2013 -
Army leadership is looking to improve coordination among its mental health programs and other soldier-resilience efforts, acknowledging Monday that a patchwork system of tools is often confusing for both commanders and soldiers.
February 05, 2013 -
Executive order calls for vets in emotional distress to be seen by a professional within 24 hours. It also enlists HHS, Education, DoD and VA in interagency partnerships to find treatments for traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress.
September 04, 2012 -
VA said last month it is hiring nearly 2,000 mental health professionals and support staff. The agency will also continually assess staffing levels.
May 08, 2012 -
Veterans with mental health issues receive care comparable to that available in the private sector but the care falls short of standards set by the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to a new report. Dr. Kate Watkins, who conducted the study for the RAND Corporation, told Federal News Radio where VA has succeeded and where it has failed.
October 28, 2011 -
A mental health specialist recommended not deploying WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning to Iraq. But Manning’s immediate commanders sent him anyway. Manning is the 23-year-old Private accused of sending classified material to the WikiLeaks website. He…
February 02, 2011 -
The Army\'s largest post saw a record number of soldiers kill themselves in 2010 despite a mental health effort aimed at reversing the trend.
January 06, 2011 -
Lawyer John Mahoney explains what your rights are for seeing a mental health professional.
December 28, 2010 -
Young children from military families are more likely to seek mental and behavioral health care when a parent is deployed than when a parent is at home, a military study has concluded.
November 17, 2010