The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded $111.9 million to 191 community organizations to support suicide prevention services for veterans nationwide.
The grants are part of the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program, with funding becoming available at the start of fiscal year 2027, according to a Sept. 29 news release from the agency. Eligible recipients include nonprofit organizations, state and local governments, federally recognized tribes and other community-based organizations with demonstrated capacity to serve Veterans.
The funding is intended to extend suicide prevention services into communities, including to veterans who are not connected to VA care. Among veterans who died by suicide in 2023, 61% were not receiving VA healthcare in the last year of their life.
Approximately 17,000 veterans, service members and family members received services through Fox grantees in calendar year 2025, a 31% increase from 2024.
In 2025, Fox grantees also connected 2,647 veterans who had not previously used VHA services to VA care and resources, nearly 1,000 more than in 2024.
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