Posted on Nov 28, 2022
New mental health scholarships designed to counter VA staff shortfalls
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New mental health scholarships designed to counter VA staff shortfalls
By Leo Shane III
 Wednesday, Nov 23
Scholarship recipients will be assigned to sites with high-veteran usage and problematic vacancies. VA officials expect about 50 applicants per year. (Sinenkiy/Getty Images)
Starting next summer, Veterans Affairs officials will award scholarships to students studying mental health care in exchange for a promise that the recipients work for the department after graduation, the latest effort from leaders to try to fill critical staffing vacancies.
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SSG Michael Noll Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Cpl Vic Burk SGT Charlie Lee SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth ] Sgt (Join to see) SPC Michael Terrell A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney GySgt Jack Wallace CPL LaForest Gray SFC David Reid, M.S, PHR, SHRM-CP, DTM PV2 Larry Sellnow SPC Gary C. SPC (Join to see) SGT Steve McFarland SGT Jim Arnold Amn Dale Preisach SGT Ruben Lozada Lt Col Charlie Brown
New mental health scholarships designed to counter VA staff shortfalls
By Leo Shane III
 Wednesday, Nov 23
Scholarship recipients will be assigned to sites with high-veteran usage and problematic vacancies. VA officials expect about 50 applicants per year. (Sinenkiy/Getty Images)
Starting next summer, Veterans Affairs officials will award scholarships to students studying mental health care in exchange for a promise that the recipients work for the department after graduation, the latest effort from leaders to try to fill critical staffing vacancies.
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SSG Michael Noll Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Cpl Vic Burk SGT Charlie Lee SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth ] Sgt (Join to see) SPC Michael Terrell A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney GySgt Jack Wallace CPL LaForest Gray SFC David Reid, M.S, PHR, SHRM-CP, DTM PV2 Larry Sellnow SPC Gary C. SPC (Join to see) SGT Steve McFarland SGT Jim Arnold Amn Dale Preisach SGT Ruben Lozada Lt Col Charlie Brown
New mental health scholarships designed to counter VA staff shortfalls
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Veterans Affairs (VA) Mental Health
Posted 2 y ago
Responses: 4
100% support these type of initiatives. They should start broadly advertising the scholarships, the eligibility for the PSLF (loan forgiveness)*, and other programs that students may not be aware they they would be eligible for working at the VA.
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* Side note: I was completely unaware of the change made to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program - you can now claim your military time (couldn't in my day when I first came in)!!
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* Side note: I was completely unaware of the change made to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program - you can now claim your military time (couldn't in my day when I first came in)!!
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Thanks for the information. I have a granddaughter graduating high school next spring and enrolled in a SD state college. She wants to get a degree in psychology. I will send her a link to this article. She has a sports scholarship already but this would help.
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