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Helping Heroes Act
Sponsored By: Senator Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced
Summary
Would create the Veteran Family Resource Program to connect veterans, caregivers, survivors, and children with VA and community services through dedicated family coordinators. It focuses on social drivers of health and on strengthening family-level supports around veterans.
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- Families: Veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors would get a single point of contact at VA medical centers to help find and navigate VA benefits, community services, and child-focused supportive services like mental and behavioral health and peer programs.
- VA health system and staff: The VA would be required to appoint at least one family coordinator in each Veterans Integrated Service Network and provide staffing and resources so coordinators can assess needs, build relationships, and refer people to appropriate services.
- Accountability and community ties: The program would collect data, use metrics on referrals and satisfaction, require a progress report to Congress about services provided and demographics within two years, and could expand to additional medical centers as needed.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
More VA help for families
This bill would create the Veteran Family Resource Program at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Within five years, the VA would place at least one family coordinator in each Veterans Integrated Service Network. Coordinators would help veterans, children, caregivers, and survivors assess needs, find VA and community services, and keep service lists. The VA would set goals, track metrics, and could expand the program to more VA medical centers. The VA would report to Congress two years after the program starts. The VA would survey disabled veterans and their families within one year and at least every five years. Supportive services for children would include mental, emotional, behavioral, and physical wellness and peer-support programs. Programs funded under this bill would be subject to Federal nondiscrimination laws.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Murray, Patty [D-WA]
WA • D
Cosponsors
Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR]
AR • R
Sponsored 2/25/2025
Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
CT • D
Sponsored 2/25/2025
Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
AK • R
Sponsored 2/25/2025
Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
VT • I
Sponsored 2/25/2025
Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
NJ • D
Sponsored 2/25/2025
Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA]
CA • D
Sponsored 2/25/2025
Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
IL • D
Sponsored 2/25/2025
Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA]
VA • D
Sponsored 2/25/2025
Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT]
VT • D
Sponsored 2/25/2025
Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
NV • D
Sponsored 4/8/2025
Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
GA • D
Sponsored 10/3/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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