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VA’s top clinical priority is preventing suicide among all Veterans
Suicide has no single cause and no one approach can end it—but prevention is possible, especially when Veterans find support before a crisis happens.
VA’s National Strategy for Preventing Veteran Suicide and the White House’s national strategy to reduce military and Veteran suicide focus on clinical interventions and community-based outreach prevention strategies. That means everyone—friends, relatives, caregivers, community members, and health care providersâhas a role to play in keeping Veterans safe and healthy. This whole-of-community approach to preventing suicide can be seen in VA-lead programs and initiatives, such as the Governor’s and Mayor’s Challenges to Prevent Suicide Among Service Members and the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program.
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is when a current or former intimate partner (like a boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse) stalks, harms, or threatens to harm their partner. Intimate partner violence can be emotional, physical, or sexual. It can also lead to short-term and long-term health problems, and a wide range of mental health issues. If you or someone you know is in a potentially abusive or violent relationship, we can help. We offer:

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Beyond MST | VA Mobile
The app has over 30 specialized tools and other features to help those who use it cope with challenges, manage symptoms, improve their quality of life and find hope. Users can also take brief assessments in the app, set self-care goals, track recovery progress, and learn more about MST and common concerns. You can use the app on your own or as a companion to formal treatment, and it may be helpful to survivors of other types of unwanted sexual experiences, too. The app keeps your information private; no account is needed, and any personal information entered in the app is not shared with anyone, including the VA. You can set a PIN lock for extra privacy. You are not alone: the Beyond MST app can help.
Beyond MST was made by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Mobile Mental Health team at the National Center for PTSD, Dissemination and Training Division in collaboration with the National Center for PTSD, Women’s Health Sciences Division and the national VA MST Support Team.

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If you’re homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, we can help. We offer many programs and services, including free health care. And we can help you connect with resources in your community.

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Third, we’re significantly expanding VA coverage through the COMPACT Act—opening doors of emergency care for Veterans in crisis, access to any health care facility—VA or not—for free emergency mental health care for any Veteran, whether or not they are enrolled in VA care.
Fourth, we announced a final round of prizes through our Mission Daybreak challenge totaling nearly $20 million across 40 teams to build-out proven new innovative solutions in suicide prevention developed by Americans in communities across the country.
Fifth, Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grants—an innovation advanced by several members of Congress, including your very own Senator John Boozman—are getting resources to local suicide prevention services where Veterans are, funding local innovations among people who know their Veterans best. Here in Arkansas we recently provided one of these grants to a non-profit group called Reboot Recovery. They provide faith-based outreach, education, and support for suicide prevention across the state, uniquely designed and tailored for Veterans and their families.
Sixth, and finally, we’ve brought on over 1,300 peer specialists. These peer specialists are all Veterans, trained to use their personal experiences with their own recovery to help struggling fellow-Veterans reconnect, find a sense of belonging, and access resources at VA and in their communities. Veterans helping Veterans, long after they take off the uniform. There’s nothing better than that.
Suicide is preventable. But it takes all of us, all of our collective heart and will, alongside the very best evidence-based solutions to save Veterans’ lives. And with all this work, and more, saving lives is exactly what we’re going to do, together.
In closing, I want to reflect on something President Biden often says about serving Veterans. He says: “It’s our country’s most sacred obligation is to prepare and equip the troops we send into harm’s way, and to care for them and their families when they return home.” The second part of that sacred obligation is ours to fulfill at VA. And it comes back to the promise our country makes whenever someone signs up to serve in the military. It’s a promise that’s as simple as it is fundamental. If you serve us, we’ll serve you when you come home.
The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan (Final Version)
All figures in this publication reflect actions taken through the end of June 2023, but we have updated the narrative to reflect actions taken later in the legislative session. In addition to this report, we have released a series of issue‑specific, online posts that give more detail on the major actions in the budget package.
The Budget Problem
In this section, we present our estimates of the budget problem the Legislature addressed in the 2023 budget package. After two years of significant surpluses, the state faced a budget problem, or deficit, this year. In the context of budget development, a budget problem occurs when estimated resources are insufficient to cover the costs of currently authorized services. Under the State Constitution, a budget problem must be solved, for example, by increasing revenues or reducing spending.
$27 Billion Budget Problem
Budget Package Addressed a $27 Billion Budget Problem. We estimate the Legislature solved a $26.5 billion budget problem in the 2023‑24 budget package. This budget problem is nearly the same as the one addressed by the Governor in the May Revision. (Although we cited a slightly higher number in our Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision report, after further review, the budget problem we estimated at that time should have been slightly lower.) Our estimate of the budget problem is also lower than the figure cited by the administration. The reasons for this difference are generally the same as those we cited at the Governor’s budget and May Revision. Namely, the administration’s calculation of the budget problem included the cost of some policies that had not been adopted by the Legislature. For example, the administration’s estimates included an assumption about the costs of inflation in future years that was not current law. (We explained the differences between our estimates in more detail in our report, The 2023‑24 Budget: Overview of the Governor’s Budget.) 
Budget Problem Includes $4.5 Billion in New, Discretionary Proposals. Most of the reason that the state faced a budget problem in 2023‑24 was that state revenues declined relative to expectations from June 2022. (We describe these dynamics in more detail later in this report.)