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119-hr-2077119th CongressWALLET

Helping Heroes Act

Sponsored By: Representative Perez, Marie Gluesenkamp [D-WA-3]

In Committee

Summary

Veteran Family Resource Program would create a VA-run program to improve veterans' resilience, health, and well-being by addressing social and community needs across veterans' family units. It would place local family coordinators to connect veterans, children, caregivers, and survivors with VA benefits and outside supports and to track outcomes.

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  • Families and children: Coordinators would help families access supportive services for children's mental, emotional, behavioral, and physical health, peer support, and career-readiness. These services are defined broadly to support children’s wellness and development.
  • Veterans, caregivers, and survivors: Each Veterans Integrated Service Network must have at least one family coordinator within 5 years to serve as a point person for navigating VA and non-VA resources and making referrals.
  • Disabled veterans and their families: The VA must run a survey within 1 year and then every 5 years to identify needs, including questions about supports for children and unmet needs.
  • VA operations and partners: The program would collect metrics on department and non-department referrals, health indicators, and satisfaction, act as a community liaison, and must follow federal civil rights and disability laws for funded activities.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

More VA help for veteran families

If enacted, the VA would start a Veteran Family Resource Program. Veterans and families would get help finding VA benefits, wellness and mental health supports, child peer groups, and community services. Within five years, each VA region would have at least one family coordinator at VA medical centers. Coordinators would assess needs, make referrals, track services, and the VA would report results to Congress within two years of program start.

No discrimination in funded programs

If enacted, any program that gets money under this bill would have to follow federal civil-rights laws. This includes Title IX, Title VI, the ADA, Section 504, and the Age Discrimination Act. The rule would start when a program receives these funds.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Perez, Marie Gluesenkamp [D-WA-3]

WA • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. James, John [R-MI-10]

    MI • R

    Sponsored 3/11/2025

  • Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1]

    PA • R

    Sponsored 3/18/2025

  • Rep. Bishop, Sanford D. [D-GA-2]

    GA • D

    Sponsored 6/4/2025

  • Rep. McGarvey, Morgan [D-KY-3]

    KY • D

    Sponsored 11/4/2025

  • Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17]

    NY • R

    Sponsored 6/2/2026

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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