Penny Coleman testified at the "Hearing on Mental Health for
Veterans" before the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs December
12, 2007.
Subject: "Stopping Suicide: Mental Health Challenges Within the Department of Veterans Affairs"
Subject: "Stopping Suicide: Mental Health Challenges Within the Department of Veterans Affairs"
For more information on this hearing:
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Penny Coleman's Testimony in on YouTube TM 10:28 minutes - Penny Coleman: House Hearing: Stopping Suicides: Part 1 05:58 minutes
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Penny
Coleman: House Hearing: Stopping Suicides: Part 2 04:30
minutes
- Penny Coleman: House Hearing: Playlist (select which parts to watch)
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Transcript of Penny's presentation
[PDF format]
[Microsoft Word
format]
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Penny
Coleman's Supplemental Written Testimony
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Read Penny's account of the proceedings:
"Activist
Tells Congress About Suicide Epidemic Among Vets" by Penny
Coleman from Alternet, posted Jan 2, 2008
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The record of the hearing (with transcripts of testimonies):
Stopping Suicide: Mental Health Challenges Within the Department of Veterans Affairs
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CSPAN.org "House
Hearing on Veterans Mental Health Care" Dec 12, 2007
12/12/2007: WASHINGTON, DC: 3 hr. 54 min.
Note: If you choose to go to the CSPAN.org website, Search for "Suicide" Then click on the "... Veterans Mental Health..." link.
The hearing in the press:
- from MSN.com Veteran's Suicides Up, Dec 12, 2007 by Tracie Potts, NBC News playlist includes: 1:42 second video with highlight of the hearing (follows MSN advertizing)
- from WBIR, Knoxville, TN, Dec 12, 2007 "Congress looks into rising veteran suicide rate" by Tracie Potts, NBC News
- from the World Socialist Web Site, Dec 13, 2007 "Suicides by US soldiers and war veterans surge" by Joe Kay
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from the
Army Times, Friday Dec 14,
2007 "Panel hears VA, critics on suicides" by Karen
Jowers
Last updated: January 22, 2008