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KENNESAW, Ga. | Feb 27, 2025

Funding will allow AMES to enhance its telehealth capabilities, reaching veterans across state of Georgia.

肉肉传媒鈥檚 Center for the Advancement of Military and Emergency Services Research (AMES) is bolstering its commitment to providing behavioral health services to service members, veterans and their families through recent funding from the Georgia Department of Veterans Service (GDVS).

AMES was selected by the GDVS to receive funding through the Georgia Veterans Mental Health Services Grant Program, which will allow the center to enhance its telehealth capabilities and reach veterans and their families across the state of Georgia.

The program will also allow AMES to provide multiple sessions each week through its clinical services team and partnerships with the 肉肉传媒 Public Safety Foundation.

鈥淭his funding is critical to ensuring Georgia鈥檚 veterans and eligible families have enhanced access to care while also ensuring our licensed clinicians maintain clinical proficiency to inform and enhance our ongoing and future research initiatives,鈥� AMES Director Brian Moore said.

Established in 2023, the Georgia Veterans Mental Health Services Grant Program supports mental and behavioral health providers that specialize in services for military service members, veterans, and their families. Following its successful implementation and positive results, the program received additional funds to support Georgia鈥檚 growing mental and behavioral health network.

鈥淕overnor Kemp and our legislators continued investment in this program is a testament to the value it brings to supporting mental and behavioral health in Georgia,鈥� GDVS Commissioner Patricia Ross said.

The collaboration expands AMES鈥� partnership with GDVS, which includes an initiative designed to prevent veteran suicide that began in 2022 and was extended in October. Since receiving initial funding in 2022, the partnership between GDVS and AMES has led to the completion of more than 7,000 suicide assessments across in the entire state of Georgia.

AMES researches and develops solutions for the complex occupational and behavioral health concerns faced by military and emergency services personnel, veterans, their families, and the communities they live in. Their team includes three licensed behavioral health providers who currently provide services across the state. 

The Veterans Mental Health Services Grant program was created through HB 414 and was signed by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on April 25, 2023. The grant program aims to improve and expand access to mental health services for military service members, veterans, and their families in the state of Georgia. 

The Georgia Department of Veterans Service (GDVS) is not part of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs but is an agency of Georgia鈥檚 state government created for the purpose of advising, counseling, and assisting Georgia鈥檚 veterans and their families in receiving their rightful benefits under the vast and complex framework of veterans鈥� laws. The GDVS mission, to serve Georgia's veterans and their families in all matters pertaining to veterans benefits, falls into two basic tasks: informing veterans and their families about veterans鈥� benefits, and directly assisting and advising veterans and their families in securing the federal and state benefits to which they are entitled.

鈥� Story by David Roberts