Wounded Warrior Project: $70M to be invested in veterans' mental health. Is this even close to being enough?

2015-06-18T09:31:34-04:00

"Tapping into private health care [in conjunction with what is offered at Veterans Affairs] is something we think can benefit not only the warriors in our program but those who are accessing mental health treatment at VA and other programs," Chwat said.

Participants are Emory University's Veterans Program, Atlanta; the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital's Home Base Program, Boston; Operation Mend at the University of California-Los Angeles; and Rush University Medical Center's Road Home Program in Chicago.

The Warrior Care Network is one of 21 programs established or managed by Wounded Warrior Project to help troops from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and others who served after Sept. 11, 2001.

http://www.militarytimes.com/story/veterans/2015/06/17/veterans-mental-health-wounded-warrior-project-70million/28824099/

$70M to be invested in veterans' mental health

Wounded Warrior Project is putting $70 million to improve mental health services for injured veterans and their family members. The charity announced

Response by LTC Stephen F. made Jun 18 at 2015 9:34 AM

2015-06-18T09:34:51-04:00

It is a good start if it is legitimate. Funding for an issue as serious as mental health is probably an unlimited requirement. I am assuming this funding is going to private or public hospital and similar facilities. Hopefully those programs are managed and run well from a medical standpoint. That needs to be one of ten criteria for funding.

Response by PO1 John Miller made Jun 18 at 2015 10:13 AM

2015-06-18T10:13:12-04:00

It's a start.

Response by CPT Bruce Rodgers made Jun 18 at 2015 12:15 PM

2015-06-18T12:15:42-04:00

Its probably just a drop in the bucket, but I would not give a dime to WWP since they do not help veterans prior to 9/11/2001, Here we go again making our Vietnam Era veterans less than. I hate it we are all brothers

Response by SrA Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 18 at 2015 9:32 PM

2015-06-18T21:32:39-04:00

Working in the Mental Health Career field I can say that it is definitely a good start. I feel that Mental Health for veterans needs to be a lot better than it is. Although 70 million is a lot of money I do not think that it will be enough to get us where we need to be, but I am hopeful that one day we will get there and give the veterans what they deserve and earned!

Response by Capt Richard Knapp made Nov 26 at 2016 11:03 AM

2016-11-26T11:03:25-05:00

I agree it is a good start but it would also depend on how the funds were utilized. Maybe some could help find more effective means of helping veterans and some could be used as seed money to help organizations using those methods get going.