LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The Michigan Veterans Affairs Company (MVAA) will obtain $750,000 in federal funding after being chosen to take part within the Workers Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program.
The three-year-old program—created to honor Parker Gordon Fox, an Military sniper teacher who died by suicide on the age of 25—is designed to assist implement suicide prevention packages and providers for veterans and their households and tailor these packages to serve particular communities.
“MVAA is tremendously excited to accept this funding, on behalf of Michigan’s more than 516,000 veterans, from the VA’s Staff Sgt. Fox Grant program for the third year in a row,” says Brian L. Love, director of the MVAA. “This funding is vital in supporting MVAA’s mental health, suicide and homelessness prevention initiatives impacting Michigan’s veteran community.”
This system offers funding to assist organizations provide rapid and ongoing help to veterans, together with peer help, suicide prevention training, VA advantages help and coordination, help with emergencies, and outreach to determine these susceptible to suicide.
This program will complement previously-available assets on the MVAA.
All veterans of any department or service in the US army and the households of these enrolled in this system are eligible for these providers. If you happen to want to enroll, name the MVAA’s Michigan Veterans Useful resource Service Heart at 1-800-MICH-VET.
