Fostering and supporting mental health, focusing on empowerment, well-being and suicide prevention

Dramatic increase in mental health services to other-than-honorable discharge Veterans

In FY 2021, VA provided 270% more mental health visits to former service members with an other-than-honorable (OTH) discharge compared to FY 2020. The available services cover the full continuum of VA mental health care, including outpatient care, residential rehabilitation care and acute inpatient psychiatric hospitalization.