Support legislation to create a Department of Transportation grant program for suicide prevention, peer support, confidential counseling, family services, training, and technical assistance for firefighters, EMS personnel, and 911 dispatchers.

introduced the Lifeline for First Responders Act to create a Department of Transportation grant program for suicide prevention, peer support, confidential counseling, family services, training, and technical assistance for firefighters, EMS personnel, and 911 dispatchers

Whitehouse backed legislation establishing a federal DOT grant program for first responder mental health services and support.

Whitehouse and Hawley Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Support Mental Health Needs of Firefighters and EMTs
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The page says Whitehouse voted for the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act in 2022.

Concrete support action in his Senate term, but it is only adjacent to the specific DOT grant-program promise.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
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The act included $120 million over four years for SAMHSA to train first responders on how to engage with people with mental disorders.

This shows related first-responder mental-health legislation was enacted, but it does not match the promised DOT grant program.

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Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
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