American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans Mental Health Act
- Last Action
- 7/28/2021
CRS Summary
As of 2021-02-08 (00)
American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans Mental Health Act
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide mental health and suicide prevention outreach to American Indian and Alaska Native veterans.
Specifically, the bill requires that each VA medical center have a full-time minority veteran coordinator. The coordinator must receive training in the delivery of culturally appropriate mental health and suicide prevention services to American Indian and Alaska Native veterans.
Further, the suicide prevention coordinator and minority veteran coordinator of each VA medical center must develop and disseminate a written plan for conducting mental health and suicide prevention outreach to all tribes and urban Indian health organizations within the area of the medical center.
Subjects
- Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
- Census and government statistics
- Congressional oversight
- Cultural exchanges and relations
- Employment and training programs
- Federal-Indian relations
- Foreign language and bilingual programs
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Health care coverage and access
- Health care quality
- Health facilities and institutions
- Health information and medical records
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Mental health
- Minority employment
- Minority health
- Veterans' medical care
- Women's employment
Sourced from Congress.gov (public domain).
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