# 2025-08537: VA Grants Aim to Connect Veterans Before Crisis Strikes

2025-08537, Staff Sergeant Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program Funding Opportunity, is a Federal Register notice from Veterans Affairs Department published 2025-05-15; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-20).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-08537
- As of: 2026-10-20
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-08537
- Title: Staff Sergeant Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program Funding Opportunity
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Veterans Affairs Department
- Citation: 90 FR 20739
- Published: 2025-05-15
- Effective: unknown
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-10-20

## In one line

VA Grants Aim to Connect Veterans Before Crisis Strikes

## Summary

The Department of Veterans Affairs is offering grants to community groups to help prevent Veteran suicide by providing support and connecting Veterans and their families to resources. These grants focus on non-medical help like outreach, improving mental health, and boosting social and financial support. Applications must be submitted by July 18, 2025, so groups ready to make a difference should act fast!

## Abstract

VA is announcing the availability of funds for suicide prevention grants under the Staff Sergeant Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program (SSG Fox SPGP). The SSG Fox SPGP directs efforts to reduce Veteran suicide by awarding grants to community-based organizations to provide or coordinate the provision of primarily non-clinical suicide prevention services, including outreach and linkage to VA and community resources, to eligible individuals and their families. The SSG Fox SPGP furthers VA's public health approach to suicide prevention by combining community-based efforts with linkage to clinical care to prevent Veteran suicide for those inside and outside of VA health care. The goal of these grants is to reduce Veteran suicide risk by improving mental health status, well-being, financial stability, and social support for eligible individuals and their families.

## Effects PRIA read

- Grants Available to Community Groups: benefit, medium. The Department of Veterans Affairs is offering grant funding through the Staff Sergeant Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program to community-based organizations. These grants pay for groups to provide or coordinate primarily non-clinical suicide prevention services, such as outreach and connecting Vet…
- Veterans Get Non-Clinical Suicide Support: benefit, high. Veterans and their families can receive primarily non-clinical suicide prevention help funded by these grants, including outreach and help linking to VA and community services. The program aims to reduce Veteran suicide risk by improving mental health, well-being, financial stability, and social su…

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## Sources
- [2025-08537 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/15/2025-08537/staff-sergeant-fox-suicide-prevention-grant-program-funding-opportunity)
- [2025-08537 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-05-15/pdf/2025-08537.pdf)

## Related
- [Previous: 2025-08534, Combined Notice of Filings #2](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-08534)
- [Next: 2025-08542, Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Extension: Rule 17j-1](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-08542)
- [All Federal Register documents](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register)

Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-08537 (as of 2026-10-20).