And to learn about effective evidencebased Suicide Prevention strategies. To have a panel of experts director for Mental Health programs for overset office at department of defense, the director of defense of Suicide Prevention office for the office of the department of defense and acting director at the department of Veterans Affairs the Suicide Prevention chief of Substance Abuse and Mental Health at the department of Mental Health and Human Services healthcare policy department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School thank you for being here and our topic today is a heavy one that is difficult to discuss but we must address it that the readiness and wellbeing of troops and families and veterans suicide tragically rates of suicide with veteran populations have increased from the reports affecting young men under 30. Veteran suicide as a member of the Veterans Affairs committee of those who die by suicide is one of my Top Priorities the department of defense improved capacity
And to learn about effective evidencebased Suicide Prevention strategies. To have a panel of experts director for Mental Health programs for overset office at department of defense, the director of defense of Suicide Prevention office for the office of the department of defense and acting director at the department of Veterans Affairs the Suicide Prevention chief of Substance Abuse and Mental Health at the department of Mental Health and Human Services healthcare policy department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School thank you for being here and our topic today is a heavy one that is difficult to discuss but we must address it that the readiness and wellbeing of troops and families and veterans suicide tragically rates of suicide with veteran populations have increased from the reports affecting young men under 30. Veteran suicide as a member of the Veterans Affairs committee of those who die by suicide is one of my Top Priorities the department of defense improved capacity
Programs in the department of defense director of Defense Suicide Prevention Office and the department of defense doctor miller acting director Suicide Prevention program at the department of Veterans Affairs and Suicide Prevention branch chief and deferment of Human Services and doctor kessler professor from the department of Health Care Policy at harvard medical school. Sorryea we are late. The topic is heavy and one that is difficult to discuss but we must address it to ensure the readiness and wellbeing ofut troops and families and veterans. Suicide is a homefront threat tragically rates of suicide for active Duty Service Members increased in the latest reports affecting young men under 30. It is a National Epidemic as a veteran Affairs Committee thats one of my Top Priorities the department of Veterans Affairs improveve capacity and access to Mental Health and the rates of suicide have not decreased. D i see today as an opportunity to understand what more we can do to make a posit
Network, which operates seamlessly so we dont have nine different counties and a bunch of j. P. A. S operating their express Lane Networks with their own rules and everything, having a gapless express lane network, forms the basis for a sort of a sort of a truly seamlesslyrun express bus network around the region, which integrates with an upgraded rail network, also operates seamlessly could be the sort of one of the foundations and express lanes could be one of the drivers, one of the demand sort of producers. We are also thinking that on one of the ideas that we are exploring with our Business Partners and others are looking at kind of the regional scale t. D. M. Program. Thats something that the last time this was tried was in the early 1990s, coming out of some federal Clean Air Act and then implemented by the bay area Quality Management district and others. But at the time it was not really possible to do it, but the time was not right, basically, and not possible to do it in a wa
From faster presented today. We have been in conversations with them. We do agree that any kind of regional transportation measure will take everyone getting on board, which is why i say im a little bit concerned about the process, more than a little bit corner concerned about the process and we have been having this conversation with stakeholders, so several things, one, i think often with some of the processes we are concerned about regressivity and potential Revenue Sources. No conversation on why, and the polling data, theres some interesting things included, some things i think were not included. No real conversation about other potential Revenue Sources. We have gotten resources to work with the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and some consultants to look at other potential Revenue Sources and we think that should be part of the conversation, that it should not just be a conversation immediately to the sales tax, we have heard several transit agencies, the Board Members expre