suicides of veterans

“VA and CVN have a shared goal to improve Veterans' health and access to mental health services to reduce veteran suicide,” said David J. Shulkin, VA ... “This partnership will help us save lives by getting care to veterans faster and, therefore, preventing suicides,” said Anthony Hassan, president and ...

YOUNTVILLE, Calif. — After an apparent hourslong standoff between police and a gunman, three women were found dead Friday night at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville, authorities said. The suspect was also found dead, Chris Childs, assistant chief of the California Highway Patrol's Golden ...

Las Vegas (KTNV) - Veterans Affairs' Secretary David Shulkin came to visit our VA hospital in North Las Vegas today taking on the staggering problem of suicide. Contact 13 looks into how many Nevada veterans have taken their own lives and how the VA hopes to prevent that in the future . Suicide among ...

Quincy Vietnam-era veteran Ralph Gullison of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division, left, enjoys talking with Iraq vet Ryan Rogers, MBA from Plumas County Behavioral Health Services at the Feb. 20 veterans outreach dinner. Photo by Roni Java. Every single day, the U.S. loses an estimated 27 veterans ...

CLOUD -- Helping prevent veteran suicide is the goal of a nationwide program the St. Cloud VA is taking part in, where they're giving away free gun locks. Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin says the VA's number 1 clinical priority is now suicide prevention. According to VA data, the average veteran ...

Wendell, N.C. — A former soldier in the Triangle said his service dog has done more for him than any medication and ultimately saved his life. The dog came into Chris Ellis's life last summer. Ellis said his life hasn't been the same since. The veteran said spending time with his new best friend Lex has made ...

Although reliable statistics on veteran suicides are hard to come by, it's thought that about 20 veterans take their own lives every day. The Veterans Health Administration has been praised and criticized for its suicide prevention efforts, but barriers to accessing care remain – and that seems to have been a ...

The Veteran's Home is situated past vineyards and the Vintner's Golf Club in Yountville, California on March 1, 2008. ... Regardless of state laws, the 1997 Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act passed by Congress prohibits the use of federal funds for assisted suicides, Veterans Affairs spokesman Curt ...

Photo illustration from the Air Force's Suicide Prevention Month outreach last September. On Tuesday, AMVETS and the Department of Veterans Affairs announced a new partnership to improve mental health care delivery to veterans in need. (Airman 1st Class Kathryn R.C. Reaves/Air Force).

This is likely an underestimate as previous work found that an unknown number of farmers disguise their suicides as farm accidents. Another study done by the CDC during the same year found that military veterans, another essential group in our society that has devoted their lives to ensuring our wellbeing ...

The organizations who are coordinating the event include Veterans Mentor Group, American Legion Post 38, Fox Valley Veterans Council, Prevent Suicide Fox Cities, Fox Valley Technical College Veterans Services & Public Safety Training Center, JJ Keller Foundation, Multi-Conveyor, Fox River Lions, ...

The suicide rate for veterans in Arizona is 54.8 per 100,000 people, with Maricopa County's rate at 54.4, according to the Arizona Violent Death Reporting System. The national average of 38 suicides, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. According to Stanton's office, there needs to be a ...

The partnership will pool agency resources with the Cohen Veterans Network, a nonprofit that focuses on providing mental health support to veterans with post-traumatic stress, according to their website. The end goal of the pairing is to lower the number of veteran suicides. “With 14 out of the 20 veterans ...

The team has been working for nearly two months to “hack” into the factors that can lead to so many veteran suicides, leveraging data science tools and techniques to analyze and propose solutions to the problem. Their sources included Department of Veterans Affairs statistics, demographics data from ...

AMARILLO - 22 Veterans and first responders commit suicide every day. Thursday some people rode their motor-vehicles to raise awareness. Save the Veterans 22 Amarillo is dedicated to preventing and raising awareness for first responder and Veteran suicide. The 22nd of every month at 2:22 p.m., the ...

Additionally, suicide rates were highest in veterans who were single and never married and those who were married. The rates were lower for veterans who were divorced or separated or widowed. The rate was highest among veterans who'd attended some college but received no degree, as opposed to ...

I was quite surprised to learn that married veterans are more at risk of suicide than single soldiers. Among recently returned veterans, a new study says those who are married or living with a partner are at higher suicide risk than soldiers who are single, and older married female veterans are at the greatest ...

As part of a national campaign to raise awareness about the rising number of veteran suicides, a group led by personal trainer Liz Sellinger paid respect with exercise. The WOD22 event at the gym in Cedarville saw dozens of men and women performing 22 repetitions of 22 exercises, in recognition of the ...

A U.S. Army veteran and green card holder with a felony drug conviction has been denied an opportunity to see his doctor and placed on suicide watch as he enters his fourth week of a hunger strike to protest his likely deportation, advocates said. Miguel Perez Jr., 39, was placed in solitary confinement at ...