20. Department of Veterans Affairs · Minor
Examine VA mental health workforce surpluses and deficits
Printed page 648 20. Department of Veterans Affairs
“Examine the surpluses or deficits in mental health professionals throughout the enterprise, recognizing that the department needs a blend of social workers, therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists with a focus on attracting high-quality talent.”
What has happened
- Not started
No examination of the mix or the surpluses and deficits of VA’s mental health professionals. VA’s mental health announcements in the window are clinical and programmatic — psilocybin and MDMA trials, a GLP-1 alcohol-use trial, suicide-prevention grants, record screening volumes — with nothing on the composition of the social worker, therapist, psychologist and psychiatrist workforce.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Negative search, 2026-09-01: covered by the p. 646–648 cluster negative search in ch-20.md.
Item-specific checks: news.va.gov press-release search mental health, workforce, staffing
— 12 mental-health releases since 2025-01-20, all clinical or grant announcements. Federal
Register API, conditions[agencies][]=veterans-affairs-department from 2025-01-20, all types,
read by title — nothing on mental health staffing. VA’s mandated mental-health staffing reports to
Congress are not published on an allowlisted page that could be read.
- Action
- other
- Object
- VA mental health professional staffing
- ID
- 1784