The Department of Veterans Affairs’ community-based counseling centers — known as vet centers — provide critical mental health services to help veterans readjust to civilian life, but those centers still struggle with deficiencies in key systems and a lack of access to needed data that hamper their oversight and outreach efforts, according to watchdog officials.
During a Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday, representatives from the Government Accountability Office and the VA Office of Inspector General warned that the Veterans Health Administration-overseen vet centers are not complying with required procedures and have not fully addressed previously identified oversight concerns…
Source: Vet centers need better systems, data to enhance support services. By Edward Graham, February 2, 2024. NextGov.
