Alabama military veterans will have access to 3,000 free telehealth therapy sessions through Centerstone Military Services following a $750,000 grant from the Alabama Veterans Mental Health Steering Committee.<\/p>\n
The program will provide behavioral health care at no cost to Alabama veterans, regardless of their era of service or military discharge status. Veterans can access licensed clinicians trained in military culture from anywhere in the state through telehealth services.<\/p>\n
Centerstone says initial appointments can be scheduled less than 14 days after enrollment, with each participating veteran receiving support from a dedicated clinical care coordinator throughout the therapy process.<\/p>\n
The funding comes from the National Opioid Settlement and is administered through the Alabama Department of Mental Health. A 2024 law allocated $3 million for veterans programs through a request-for-proposals process, with the goal of addressing gaps in behavioral health care for Alabama’s veteran population.<\/p>\n
Centerstone Military Services CEO Anna Goletz said the program is intended to reduce barriers that can prevent veterans from seeking mental health support.<\/p>\n
Centerstone’s Military Services program also focuses on preventing veteran suicide. According to data cited from the Face the Fight Coalition, suicide is the second-leading cause of death among veterans under age 45.<\/p>\n
The organization says telehealth can make treatment more accessible for veterans and military families who face transportation challenges, live in rural communities or prefer virtual care.<\/p>\n
Alabama has approximately 300,000 veterans, representing about 7.5% of the state’s population. U.S. Census data indicates roughly 102,000 Alabama veterans, or 34%, have some form of disability status.<\/p>\n
Veterans seeking more information about the free services can call 1-866-726-4560 or email militaryservices@centerstone.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alabama military veterans will have access to 3,000 free telehealth therapy sessions through Centerstone Military Services following a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-825007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}