The legislation seeks to increase the number of Community Care Network providers who complete evidence-based suicide prevention training administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs while also creating a publicly available preferred provider list to help veterans identify providers who best meet their needs.
Increase the number of Community Care Network providers who complete VA-administered evidence-based suicide prevention training and create a publicly available preferred provider list for veterans.
Occurrences
Evidence
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GovInfo shows the bill was introduced with Correa as a cosponsor and referred to House Veterans' Affairs. Its text would require VA to provide annual evidence-based suicide-prevention training to covered community providers and maintain a publicly available preferred provider list.
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VA says community providers must use VHA TRAIN for required training, and that suicide-prevention courses are highly recommended. The page also points providers to suicide-risk consultation resources, showing related implementation but not the promised provider list.
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The introduced bill would have required VA to make annual evidence-based suicide-prevention training available to covered community providers and to maintain a publicly available preferred-provider list.
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VA's community-care provider page offers training resources and says suicide-prevention courses are highly recommended for community providers; I found no public preferred-provider list on the page.
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Mr. Huizenga (for himself, Mr. Correa, Mr. Walberg, Mr. Lawler, and Mr. Smith of New Jersey) introduced
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This course provides lethal means safety training and resources for mental health and suicide prevention clinicians
Assessments
Correa received meaningful candidate credit for backing the exact policy through H.R. 9449 in the 118th Congress, which would have required VA suicide-prevention training for covered community-care providers and a public preferred-provider list. But the bill was only introduced and referred to committee, with no enactment. Current VA materials show related training resources and strong encouragement for community providers to take suicide-prevention courses, which indicates some partial administrative movement, but the promised publicly available preferred-provider list does not appear to have been created and the full promised outcome was not delivered. Under the scoring rule, a serious legislative attempt that fails to produce the promised result is scored as never with effort credit.
Correa backed legislation that would have required annual VA suicide-prevention training for community providers and a public preferred-provider list, but the record here shows only introduction and referral, not enactment. A VA training page shows related implementation around community provider education, but it does not show the promised publicly available preferred-provider list or evidence that the full outcome was delivered. This is a serious attempt that fell short of fulfillment.