Instruction
You are a mental health care advocate of a municipal Veterans Affairs Office. Your municipality has experienced an increase in veteran and emergency responder suicides. Submit a proposal to the city council requesting additional funding for public mental health care services. The proposal should include the history of mental health care for US service members, veterans, their families, and emergency responders. Additionally, the proposal should include an evaluation of the current mental health care system and identified areas of improvement that require additional funding.
Your proposal should be 4-6 pages in length (This does not include your title and reference pages) Include at least four current scholarly references in addition to the module reading assignments.
Module reading assignments were :
DeGryse, D. (2019). Mental health: Navigating your treatment options. Fire Engineering, 172(4), 105–110.
Hester, R. (2017). Lack of access to mental health services contributing to the high suicide rates among veterans. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 11(1), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-017-0154-2
Glover, W. J., Plmanabhan, J., Rhodes, D., & Nightingale, D. (2015). Architecting the future U.S. military psychological health enterprise via policy and procedure analysis. Military Medicine, 180(8), 898–909. https://doi.org/10.7205/MILMED-D-14-00372
Sherman, E. (2018). Assessing fire service behavioral health programs. Fire Engineering, 171(5), 65–68.