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
Fiscal years 20202025. Campos i will be supporting this item, but i want to be very clear that and theres nothing in the document thats before us that actually addresses this issue. But i just dont want any ambiguity in the record. That i think that theres still many questions to be answered about one specific item within the capital plan. And thats whether or not to replace county jails 3 and 4 in the hall of justice. I think that there is strong evidence against the need for a new jail. Given the decrease in the jail population and the in fact, sf Community Based interventions like pretrial diversion, and other alternatives to incarceration. And i hope that its clear that by supporting this capital plan, it doesnt mean that we are committing ourselves to the rebuild of a new jail. I know that supervisor kim has been doing a lot of work on this issue, and well pull to the hearing that she will be holding on that issue. Thank you supervisor campos. And i agree with you as well. Supervi
Means its necessary or that it makes us safer. But it im not saying it doesnt make us safer either. I just wish we had more options in terms of nonlethal options. And we explored daytime versus nighttime. I get the nighttime obviously. That off the bat i understood immediately. I just wish we had time to explore less guns on the street and other nonlethal options. We werent able to do that in this time. I appreciate they get more training than was initially presented to us last week. Firing range is different from a moving target in a very busy city. I would like to understand that a little more as we move forward. But i certainly think safety is a top issue for our employees. If we look at safety, we have to look at our bus drivers, because theyre the ones where we have a history of demonstration of attacks and assaults on our bus drivers. We havent seen it yet with our fare collectors. This is where the questions come up if our goal is really ut most safety for our what are we doing