Kemp signs bill offering grants for veterans’ mental health services
Capitol Beat News Service
ATLANTA — Gov. Brian signed bipartisan legislation this week establishing a mental health support program grant for veterans and their families.
House Bill 414, which the General Assembly passed unanimously, will provide matching grants to nonprofits that serve veterans, subject to the availability of funding.
“This important legislation provides support and resources for the brave men and women who have worn a uniform for our country, and Georgia is proud to be a state that honors and values its veterans,” Kemp said during a signing ceremony inside the state Capitol.
The Georgia Department of Veterans Service will run the program, with grants to be awarded to applicants based on certain eligibility a decade assisting veterans find services and is still finding new services available.
“There’s not a single veteran that comes in that’s going to know all the services available to that woman or that man,” Butler said.
The event has several sponsors including Home Depot, the City of Rome and United Military Care, among others. While many facets of the event are set, others are being worked out.
During the planning session early Friday, they spoke of a number of items to be worked out including how to provide transportation for people who wished to criteria. To be considered for funding, applicants must provide behavioral health services using evidence-based practices, train staff members in military culture, and connect veterans or members of their families with needed community-based mental health services in a timely manner.
Applications for grant funds will be available soon. Nonattend. Rome Public Information Officer Doug Walker said the city would be interested in providing buses.
“The challenge in that is trying to find a central point to pick them up (and transport them to the civic center),” he said. They’re currently looking at two or three pick-up and drop-off spots.
Part of organizing the event will be gathering the information on available resources and putting them in one localized handbook — titled the hero’s handbook — to give to those in attendance.
“Be the voice that tells veterans about this event,” Scofi said. profit community behavioral health-care providers with experience in treating military service members and veterans are encouraged to apply.
Kemp also signed several other veteran-oriented bills, including one that creates a specialty license plate for retired Georgia National Guard and active duty Reserve members.
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