Suicide Prevention: What Can You Do?

07/28/23 • 10 min

Ensuring the well-being of our veterans and preventing suicide is top priority at the Texas Veterans Commission. Listen as our Suicide Prevention Coordinator, shares action we can take to reduce veteran suicide. Then discover how you can join the VA Virtual Mental Health Summit coming up on August 16, 2023.

Learn more about the Veterans Mental Health Department here.

Register for the Virtual VA Mental Health Summit here.

Learn more about the Veterans Mental Health Department here.

Register for the Virtual VA Mental Health Summit here.

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The Military Veteran Peer Network Helps Veterans Succeed

Our Veterans Mental Health department provides excellent services to veterans, their families and mental health providers and supporters.. We offer a justice-involved veteran’s program, collaborate with local communities to prevent veteran suicide and combat veteran homelessness. We provide training in military cultural competency and educate law enforcement and first responders on deescalating veteran interactions. Additionally, we have a Military Veteran Peer Network (MVPN) led by a manager who was once helped by the network. Listen to Arlene’s story and find out how the MVPN helps veterans connect with valuable resources. Find Your Peer Service Coordinator Here

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PACT ACT Intent to File Deadline Looms

Did you know Texas Veterans Commission Claims Benefits Advisors have filed over 80 thousand PACT Act Claims? If you still have to file yours, do this first. Submit your “Intent to File” to the VA on or before August 9, 2023. That way if your claim is approved, compensation is backdated to August 2022. You get a years’ worth of retroactive pay! But only if you file the claim or the “Intent to File” on or before August 9, 2023. No need to complete the claim yet, you’ll have a year from your intent. Mike Jaeger our Southwest Claims Supervisor explains it all, plus sheds some light on who benefits from the PACT ACT. Intent to file info here

1-800-MyVA411 (1-800-698-2411)—available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week—Press 8 for Pact Act phone tree, then 0 to speak to a human and norify of "Intent to File".