Obama Signs EO to Improve Access to Mental Health Services for Veterans, Service Members, and ...

[Tx4obama]

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
August 31, 2012

Fact Sheet: President Obama Signs Executive Order to Improve Access to Mental Health Services for Veterans, Service Members, and Military Families


WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Obama will sign an Executive Order directing key federal departments to expand suicide prevention strategies and take steps to meet the current and future demand for mental health and substance abuse treatment services for veterans, service members, and their families.

Ensuring that all veterans, Active, Guard, and Reserve service members and their families receive the support they deserve is a top priority for the Obama Administration. Since September 11, 2001, more than two million service members have deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan with unprecedented duration and frequency. Long deployments and intense combat conditions require optimal support for the emotional and mental health needs of our service members and their families. The Obama Administration has consistently expanded efforts to ensure our troops, veterans and their families receive the benefits they have earned and deserve, including providing timely mental health service. The Executive Order signed today builds on these efforts.

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[liberal N proud]

1. Something that has been needed since the Reagan years

[Smilo]

2. This is great news.......

wish he had not waited until the Friday before a holiday to do it - it will be pushed under and forgotten by the media.

k&r

[patrice]

3. K&R

[steve2470]

4. k&r nt

[ailsagirl]

5. That's our guy

[qwlauren35]

6. This is probably a response to TIME Magazine's

Military Suicides cover.

It's definitely the right thing to do.