Kitt shares a vital message.
Read Mark C. Russell’s November 9th editorial published in The Seattle Times entitled, On this Veterans Day, where is the outrage over mental-health crisis?
Russell concludes with this call to action:
Honor our veterans this holiday by demanding the president and congressional representatives to urgently do the following:
- Conduct independent investigations into the cause of the military mental-health-care crisis.
- Establish a unified “Behavioral Health Corps” within the Department of Defense.
- End hiring restrictions of licensed marriage/family therapists, mental-health counselors and clinical psychologists to address chronic staffing shortages.
- Establish a “Joint Services Behavioral Health Lessons Learned Center.”
- Compel the VA/military to ensure every veteran has access to all evidence-based therapies per the VA/DoD PTSD guidelines.
Mark C. Russell
Resources:
NAMI | Support for Veterans & Active Duty
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cabbagesandkings524 
Thanks for bringing this article to light. More people need to know about this. Heavens above, they go to fight, we’d better damn sure take care of them when they get back home!
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