VA’s new innovation podcast launches with powerful episode on suicide prevention - VAntage Point

Thank you for the news share Keith.

Thanks for making us aware SGT (Join to see) about the inaugural episode of the VA Innovation Experience podcast!
I concur with you that I hope and pray this will help our Veterans who live on the dark side.
"VA is excited to announce the inaugural episode of the VA Innovation Experience podcast!
In this first episode, Andrea Ippolito, a founding member of the team that launched the highly successful VA Innovators Network, hosts a powerful episode about two of VA’s efforts to reduce and eliminate Veteran suicide – Secretary Shulkin’s top clinical priority. Combatting and challenging the Veteran suicide crisis with innovative and forward-thinking efforts is key. The podcast also features a discussion on the efforts that Facebook is taking to prevent suicide by using advanced artificial intelligence systems and enlisting support from family quickly.
The first VA effort highlighted in the episode, partnering with faith-based organizations, is a program that reaches out to faith-based organizations and provides training and tools to recognize Veterans in crisis in their own communities. This is especially important because VA needs to reach not just the Veterans who come directly to us for care, but those who are not enrolled in VA health care. The program’s creator, Dr. Joseph Hunter, discusses how this effort allows VA to contact Veterans who are not in our care, and get them the support they need.
The second program is VA’s groundbreaking work with REACH VET, an initiative that uses complex algorithms to identify Veterans at high risk of suicide so VA can deliver support and care before these Veterans are even in crisis. Dr. Jodie Trafton, director of the Program Evaluation and Resource Center in the Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention and Aaron Eagan, the national program manager for REACH VET, discuss how they developed this innovative intervention that could change how VA and the public sector approach suicide prevention.
Finally, the episode features an interview with Antigone Davis, the global head of safety at Facebook, who shares how the social media company’s 10 years of work in the area of suicide prevention, including work with Veterans themselves, has led to services and predictive analytic tools that help those in crisis get support before they even know they need it.'
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Don't forget about sobriety! My 49 year old sister who had trauma through much of her life and she was a problem drinker committed suicide on July 4th, 2015. Drinking can be a contributing factor to give you the stupid courage to kill yourself!

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