Operation Vet Fit has a challenge to all of the tax payer funded, pop-up agencies claiming to investigate the veteran suicide crisis. Stop prostituting the crisis and get something done! Yet, despite all that funding, their efforts have come up short with little to no reduction in veteran suicide trends. Meanwhile, since Operation Vet Fit has stopped the suicide crisis amongst its ranks. Not a single suicide since our inception.
Yet they VA and others seem disinterested in a solution and more motivated by the tax-dollars that support their salaries and institutional funding. However, we have also become aware that with the solution in hand, the dollars for research will quickly disappear. As a result, it is not really stopping suicide they seek, but rather the funding the crisis has provided.
With over volunteer combat veterans, their families and a stacked advisory board of military turned civilian leaders. We looked at it, through the prism of our military leaders and combat veterans tasked with managing and witnessing the crisis, first hand, as it unfolded, and in real time. We analyzed what the Department of Defense did right when the crisis began to spike in Identified the micro, meso and macro triggers of the crisis.
Articulated what the VA has been doing right and wrong. We did it all by being good stewards of our donor dollars and without a single penny of institutional, state or federal funding, and without a single paid employee. Operation Vet Fit is eager to collaborate and share its system of veteran recruitment, intake, risk assessment, case management, modality execution and continuity of care with all interested and ethical institutions.
That is, if you are actually looking for the solution. Daniel R. Founder of Operation Vet Fit, a C 3 , combat veteran advocacy agency recognized by the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services for his ground breaking research on veteran suicide causes and solutions. Board of Directors. Veteran Suicide Research Funding: The Prostitution of a Crisis Operation Vet Fit has a challenge to all of the tax payer funded, pop-up agencies claiming to investigate the veteran suicide crisis.
