SAN ANTONIO \u2013 A San Antonio veteran is asking the Bexar County Commissioners Court to approve funding for a countywide veteran mental health outreach service center. <\/p>\n
Steven Price, a military veteran and co-founder of Voices of Our Veterans, said he\u2019s pushing for changes in the community\u2019s response to veterans\u2019 mental health needs, after two veterans died by suicide last year outside the Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s not enough outreach. There\u2019s not enough intervention,\u201d Price said. \u201cAlthough it\u2019s out there when a young man goes and kills himself in front of the hospital, what\u2019s that about?\u201d<\/p>\n
Price said his advocacy is informed by his own experience navigating veteran services. He said it took years for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to recognize some of his injuries as service-related.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt took me almost 10, 15 years before the VA actually started acknowledging that my hips and my back injuries were due to the service,\u201d Price said.<\/p>\n
Price said he is seeking to transform a downtown building at 206 San Pedro Avenue into a \u201cone-stop\u201d service center where veterans can access multiple resources in one place.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve lost several friends to suicide, and I\u2019ve seen a lot of them here locally in the last 10 years since I\u2019ve been doing this work,\u201d Price said. \u201cThey take their lives because they can\u2019t take care of themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Price also criticized what he described as inconsistent public support for veterans.<\/p>\n
\u201cMemorial Day, people will come out, and they\u2019ll wave the flag,\u201d he said. \u201cFourth of July, people come out to celebrate. Some people don\u2019t even know the difference between Memorial Day and Presidents\u2019 Day. They have no idea. They just know they got the day off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Price said the proposed effort aims to prevent further deaths.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can pass it over. We can save some lives,\u201d Price said.<\/p>\n
Other organizations in Bexar County have backed similar resolutions, according to Price.<\/p>\n
KSAT asked the Bexar County Commissioners Court on Thursday how it plans to respond to the proposal. This article will be updated once a response is received. <\/p>\n
If you or someone you know <\/a>is struggling with mental health or thoughts of suicide, call 988 or text TALK to 741-741.<\/p>\n You can also reach out to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention<\/a> (AFSP) or the National Alliance of Mental Illness<\/a> (NAMI) at 210-223-7233 (SAFE) or 800-316-9241. You can also text NAMI to 741-741.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 by KSAT – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 A San Antonio veteran is asking the Bexar County Commissioners Court to approve funding for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[698,2125,82,84,83,1913],"class_list":{"0":"post-153007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-bexar-county","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-san-antonio","11":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","12":"tag-san-antonio-news","13":"tag-veterans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}