Federal News Network: DoD plans to hire 2,000 personnel for ‘first of its kind’ workforce tackling wellness issues
The Pentagon is looking to hire hundreds of clinicians and mental health professionals in the coming months, as part of the initial cohort of a worldwide workforce to prevent suicide and offer a broad range of wellness services to active-duty personnel.
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, speaking Tuesday at a Washington Post Live event, said DoD is building up a “first of its kind” prevention workforce that will address a range of “stress and harm behaviors,” and will eventually reach an end strength of 2,000 personnel.
“That could be on financial stability, it could be on food security. It could be on relationship issues. All the factors that go into causing stress and harm behaviors, including suicide,” Hicks said.
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WNU editor: When I first saw the headline I wondered if this was a smart allocation of resources. But when you think of the astronomical numbers of homeless vets. Suicides. And broken military families. Maybe it is not.