{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://lynch.house.gov/2021/11/chairman-lynch-to-hold-hearing-on-supporting-mental-health-preventing-suicide-among-u-s-servicemembers-veterans", "Chairman Lynch to Hold Hearing on Supporting Mental Health, Preventing Suicide Among U.S. Servicemembers & Veterans", "2021-11-12", "2021", "2021-11", "Democrat", "House", "MA", "Stephen F. Lynch", "L000562", "lynch.house.gov", "lynch", "https://lynch.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington D.C. \u2014On November 17, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. ET, U.S. Representative Stephen F. Lynch, Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, will hold a hearing to examine how the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and community organizations are working to strengthen mental health and curb the alarming rate of suicides among our nation\u2019s military servicemembers and veterans. The hearing will demonstrate the need for a holistic approach to suicide prevention and will also highlight the importance of supporting military families after the loss of a loved one.\n\nDespite high-level attention from DOD and the VA across multiple administrations, suicide deaths among post-9/11 servicemembers and veterans have outpaced combat deaths. On average, more than 6,300 veterans have died by suicide annually since 2001 and hundreds of active duty, National Guard, and Reserve servicemembers die by suicide each year, according to data collected by the VA and DOD.\n\nThis crisis has profound implications for U.S. national security, as well as the health, morale, and well-being of our nation\u2019s servicemembers, veterans, and their families. President Biden\u2019s new strategy for \u201cReducing Military and Veteran Suicide\u201d offers a comprehensive roadmap for improving mental health and suicide prevention efforts by strengthening community engagement, reducing barriers to care, expanding lethal means safety education, and addressing \u201cupstream risk\u201d factors that may tragically contribute to suicide.\n\nSUICIDE PREVENTION RESOURCES\n\nThere are specially trained responders ready to help servicemembers and veterans 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.\n\nServicemembers and veterans can:\n\nDial 1-800-273-8255 and Press 1 to talk to someone;\n\nSend a text message to 838255 to connect with a VA responder;\n\nStart a confidential online chat session at VeteransCrisisLine.net/Chat.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:30:49Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://lynch.house.gov/2021/11/chairman-lynch-to-hold-hearing-on-supporting-mental-health-preventing-suicide-among-u-s-servicemembers-veterans"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5928680077195168, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}