He’s also pushing for more resources for veterans mental health counseling, crisis intervention, and substance-use treatment, while also funding housing programs and outreach teams that help veterans find stable housing.
Push for more resources for veterans' mental health counseling, crisis intervention, and substance-use treatment, while funding housing programs and outreach teams.
Occurrences
Evidence
The House passed a housing bill co-led by Olszewski. His office said the RESIDE Act would create a HUD pilot grant program to convert vacant buildings into affordable homes, and the broader 21st Century Road to Housing Act passed 396-13.
Olszewski's FY27 appropriations requests include a Baltimore Care Continuity Project that would connect residents to behavioral health and substance-use treatment, long-term housing, and recovery capital, while also establishing a 24-hour centralized intake system and enhancing hospital outreach.
The FY26 request list includes a Veterans Freedom Center for veterans and their families, plus a separate request to expand evidence-based mental health and substance-use services in Carroll County.
The campaign priorities page says Olszewski is pushing for more resources for veterans mental health counseling, crisis intervention, substance-use treatment, and funding for housing programs and outreach teams that help veterans find stable housing.
Olszewski's FY26 submitted requests included $1,000,000 for the Carroll County Veterans Independence Project's Veterans Freedom Center to serve veterans and families, citing rural veterans' lack of access to resources.
Olszewski's FY26 submitted requests included $1,000,000 for the Carroll County Youth Service Bureau Building Addition Project to expand evidence-based mental health and substance-use services for individuals and families in rural Carroll County.
The House Appropriations enacted-legislation page lists Public Law 119-37/H.R. 5371 as FY2026 enacted legislation and links the Agriculture CPF table. That table includes Olszewski-requested funding: $1,000,000 for Carroll County Veterans Independence Project facility construction and $1,000,000 for Carroll County Youth Service Bureau facility improvements.
Public Law 119-37 was enacted November 12, 2025, and appropriated funds for FY2026, including Division D for Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies and Division G for Department of Veterans Affairs extenders.
Section 251 makes FY2026 VA funds available for $698,000,000 in suicide prevention outreach programs, $3,459,121,000 for veterans' homelessness programs, $6,356,000,000 for telehealth for veterans, and $709,573,000 for opioid prevention and treatment programs.
Division G extends the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program, rural veterans mental health funding, homeless women veterans and homeless veterans with children reintegration grants, treatment and rehabilitation authority for seriously mentally ill and homeless veterans, $660,000,000 for supportive services for very low-income veteran families in permanent housing, and homeless veterans special-needs grants.
The House Appropriations summary says the FY2026 MilCon-VA bill fully funds veterans health care and VA programs, supports efforts to combat veteran homelessness through the National Center for Warrior Independence, maintains funding for mental health programs, and provides opioid misuse prevention and treatment funding.
Olszewski's office said the House passed the RESIDE Act, which he co-led, as part of the 21st Century Road to Housing Act in a 396-13 vote. The bill would create a HUD pilot grant program to rehabilitate vacant buildings into affordable homes.
Olszewski's FY27 requests include $1,000,000 for Baltimore's Care Continuity Project, which would connect residents to treatment programs for behavioral health and substance use, long-term housing, recovery capital, and reduced reliance on 911, EMS, hospitals, and police.
Assessments
The promise was to push for more resources across veterans mental health counseling, crisis intervention, substance-use treatment, housing programs, and outreach teams. During Olszewski's federal term, FY2026 enacted appropriations funded major matching VA areas, including suicide-prevention outreach, veterans homelessness programs, telehealth, opioid prevention and treatment, and related VA extenders. The record also shows Olszewski-specific effort and credit: he submitted and secured enacted community project funding for a veterans service facility and behavioral-health infrastructure, and co-led House-passed housing legislation. Because the relevant federal funding was enacted during his term and his own appropriations requests materially advanced parts of the outcome, this counts as delivered, with an effort badge reflecting his direct funding push and bill activity.
Olszewski has concrete same-term progress on parts of the promise, but not full delivery. He co-led a housing measure that passed the House, which materially advances the housing portion. He also submitted appropriations requests for veterans-related and broader behavioral-health, substance-use, housing, and outreach projects, showing an active push on counseling, treatment, crisis-response, and outreach priorities. But the evidence provided does not show those funding requests were enacted into law or that the full package of promised resources was delivered. Because he advanced and partly achieved the housing side while the core funding outcomes remain requests rather than completed federal delivery, the best judgment is partial.