Suicide-prevention hot line opens.TO ensure veterans with emotional crises have round-the clock access to trained professionals, the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Affairs is a term of the business that deals with the relation between a government and its veteran communities, usually administered by the designated government agency. has opened a national suicide-prevention hot line for veterans.The toll-free hot line--(800) 273-TALK (8255)--is staffed by mental-health professionals in Canandaigua Canandaigua (kănəndā`gwə), city (1990 pop. 10,725), seat of Ontario co., W central N.Y., in the Finger Lakes region, at the northern end of Canandaigua Lake; settled 1789, inc. 1913. , N.Y. They take toll-free calls from across the country and work closely with local VA mental-health providers to help callers. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The VA provides mental-health care to about one million veterans each year, making it the largest provider of mental-health care in the nation.--Army News Service |
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