BRAVE Act of 2025

This bill makes several changes to how the Department of Veterans Affairs handles mental health services for veterans. It allows the VA to temporarily waive licensing requirements when hiring mental health counselors, extends a suicide prevention grant program with higher funding, and requires the VA to look into barriers veterans face when trying to get services at Vet Centers. The bill also calls on the VA to better understand and address the mental health needs of women veterans, offer yearly mental health check-ins to veterans receiving disability benefits for mental health conditions, and create a test program to give veterans with spinal cord injuries access to mental health residential treatment.

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