§3530 Office of wellness and workforce support

Summary

The Director must create an Office inside the Agency to help eligible people with physical health, mental health, and overall wellbeing. A Chief Wellbeing Officer will run the Office and give the Director regular updates. The Director must give the Office enough staff who do only Office work while assigned. The Office must give advice and help on health and wellbeing, help people apply for and use government benefits (including health benefits and benefits under section 3519b), and keep lists and information about doctors, mental health providers, chaplains (including the Chaplain Corps under section 3527), and private attorneys. Putting someone on a list is not an endorsement, and the Director is not liable for their actions. The Office must keep help confidential as allowed by law. The Director can make rules about confidentiality and must send any such rules to the congressional intelligence committees (as defined in section 3003 of this title) and the Senate and House Defense Appropriations subcommittees within 30 days after making them. Current and former Agency officers or employees, and others the Director says are affiliated, may choose to use the Office’s services.