The Administration must take steps to address the lack of affordable housing for servicemembers, increase access to childcare, provide support for military spouses, and invest in mental health and primary prevention initiatives.
Improve servicemember quality of life by addressing housing, childcare, spouse support, mental health, and prevention programs.
Occurrences
The bipartisan caucus will support service members and their families with issues related to mental health, including mental health support, awareness, and education.
Second, an amendment to ensure there are funds to pay childcare workers at DoD Child Development Centers, and that the facilities they work in have the funds they need to be properly maintained and modernized.
I’m proud to champion and support efforts that will implement critical upgrades in military technology and equipment, give our servicemembers a well-earned pay increase, protect collective bargaining rights, expand mental health resources, invest in our local small businesses, and work on a path forward to consolidate our overly complicated duty status system.
Requiring the DoD to increase awareness of the Brandon Act and other mental health resources and standardizing mental health training for leadership.
Evidence
House release says Cisneros-led New Democrat Coalition letter urged the administration to address affordable housing for servicemembers, increase access to childcare, support military spouses, and invest in mental health and primary prevention initiatives.
Cisneros introduced the Duty Status Reform Act to simplify reserve duty statuses and ensure equal pay and benefits; the release says the change would improve readiness and quality of life and preserve access to healthcare and the housing allowance.
Assessments
Cisneros has taken real steps in office toward the issue, including a coalition letter on housing, childcare, spouse support, mental health, and prevention, plus introducing duty-status reform legislation that would improve servicemember benefits. But the evidence shows advocacy and bill introduction, not an enacted policy or completed program change, so the promise was not delivered.