82_FR_60713 82 FR 60470 - Advisory Committee on the Readjustment of Veterans, Notice of Meeting

82 FR 60470 - Advisory Committee on the Readjustment of Veterans, Notice of Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 243 (December 20, 2017)

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FR Document2017-27378

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 243 (Wednesday, December 20, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 243 (Wednesday, December 20, 2017)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Advisory Committee on the Readjustment of Veterans, Notice of 
Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice under the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act that a meeting of the Advisory Committee 
on the Readjustment of Veterans will be held February 6, 7, and 8, 
2018. All meeting sessions will be conducted at the Department of 
Veterans Affairs National Headquarters, located at 810 Vermont Avenue 
NW, Conference Room 530, Washington, DC, 20420. The meetings will begin 
at 8:00 a.m. and adjourn at 4:30 p.m. The meetings are open to the 
public.
    The purpose of the Committee is to review the post-war readjustment 
needs of combat-theater Veterans and to evaluate the availability, 
effectiveness and coordination of VA programs available to meet 
Veterans' readjustment service needs.
    The agenda for Tuesday February 6 will feature meetings with VA and 
the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) senior leadership to review 
the general values, strategic priorities and current perspectives on 
Veterans' physical health and psychosocial welfare. The day's agenda 
will also include briefings from the Readjustment Counseling Service 
(RCS) Chief Officer regarding the current activities of the RCS Vet 
Centers to include the full scope of outreach and readjustment 
counseling being provided to combat-theater Veterans, Service members 
and their families. The briefing will also provide a status report 
regarding the RCS organizational transition to a single point of 
service within the general organizational transformation of VHA.
    On Wednesday February 7, the Committee will focus on VA mental 
health services and best practices for coordinating VA mental health 
services with RCS readjustment counseling services to better serve the 
combat-theater Veteran population. To this end Committee members will 
receive briefings from VA's mental health leadership on the types and 
distribution of psychiatric disorders currently being presented by 
Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedoms Veterans and the 
various treatment regimens provided for their care inclusive of 
psychotherapy and psychopharmacology. VA Mental Health and RCS 
leadership will additionally present on the collaborative activities 
currently underway between RCS and the Office of Mental Health and 
Suicide Prevention to achieve life-saving outcomes for at risk combat-
theater Veterans and Service members.
    On Thursday February 8, the Committee will engage in strategic 
round table discussions with various other VHA program officials to 
review the objectives and anticipated outcomes for developing a 
``Veterans Engagement Subcommittee''. This project is being initiated 
through collaborative partnership between RCS and the National Center 
for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (NC/PTSD) to strengthen the 
collaborative ties between the RCS and the NC/PTSD, to improve VA 
services and products through Veteran consumer feedback and to provide 
greater public awareness of VA and its achievements through quality 
services to Veterans and families.
    In addition, the agenda will include time for Committee strategic 
planning focused on its annual operations priorities for 2018 and the 
strategic perspectives for developing its 19th annual report to 
Congress.
    No time will be allocated at this meeting for receiving oral 
presentations from the public. However, members of the public may 
direct written questions or submit prepared statements for review by 
the Committee before the meeting to Mr. Charles M. Flora, M.S.W., 
Designated Federal Officer, Readjustment Counseling Service, Department 
of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20420. 
Because the meeting will be in a Government building, please provide 
valid photo identification for check-in. Please allow 15 minutes before 
the meeting for the check-in process. If you plan to attend or have 
questions concerning the meeting, contact Mr. Flora at (202) 461-6525 
or via email at [email protected].

    Dated: December 15, 2017.
Jelessa M. Burney,
Federal Advisory Committee Management Office.
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60470 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 243 / Wednesday, December 20, 2017 / Notices (b) The accuracy of the OCC’s organizational transition to a single Flora at (202) 461–6525 or via email at estimate of the burden of the collection point of service within the general charles.flora@va.gov. of information; organizational transformation of VHA. Dated: December 15, 2017. (c) Ways to enhance the quality, On Wednesday February 7, the Jelessa M. Burney, utility, and clarity of the information to Committee will focus on VA mental Federal Advisory Committee Management be collected; health services and best practices for Office. (d) Ways to minimize the burden of coordinating VA mental health services [FR Doc. 2017–27378 Filed 12–19–17; 8:45 am] the collection on respondents, including with RCS readjustment counseling through the use of automated collection BILLING CODE P services to better serve the combat- techniques or other forms of information theater Veteran population. To this end technology; and Committee members will receive (e) Estimates of capital or start-up DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS briefings from VA’s mental health costs and costs of operation, AFFAIRS leadership on the types and distribution maintenance, and purchase of services of psychiatric disorders currently being Publication of the Date on Which All to provide information. presented by Operation Iraqi Freedom/ Amounts Deposited in the Veterans Dated: December 14, 2017. Operation Enduring Freedoms Veterans Choice Fund Will Be Exhausted Karen Solomon, and the various treatment regimens provided for their care inclusive of AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs. Acting Senior Deputy Comptroller and Chief Counsel, Office of the Comptroller of the psychotherapy and ACTION: Notice. Currency. psychopharmacology. VA Mental Health and RCS leadership will additionally SUMMARY: The Veterans Access, Choice, [FR Doc. 2017–27328 Filed 12–19–17; 8:45 am] present on the collaborative activities and Accountability Act of 2014, Public BILLING CODE 4810–33–P Law 113–146, as amended, directs the currently underway between RCS and the Office of Mental Health and Suicide Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to Prevention to achieve life-saving publish in the Federal Register the date DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS on which the Secretary will have AFFAIRS outcomes for at risk combat-theater Veterans and Service members. exhausted all amounts deposited in the On Thursday February 8, the Veterans Choice Fund. This Federal Advisory Committee on the Register Notice is VA’s publication of Readjustment of Veterans, Notice of Committee will engage in strategic round table discussions with various this date. Meeting other VHA program officials to review FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Department of Veterans Affairs the objectives and anticipated outcomes Joseph Duran, Director, Policy and (VA) gives notice under the Federal for developing a ‘‘Veterans Engagement Planning (10D1A1), Veterans Health Advisory Committee Act that a meeting Subcommittee’’. This project is being Administration, Department of Veterans of the Advisory Committee on the initiated through collaborative Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, Readjustment of Veterans will be held partnership between RCS and the Washington, DC 20420, (303) 372–4629. February 6, 7, and 8, 2018. All meeting National Center for Post-Traumatic This is not a toll free number. sessions will be conducted at the Stress Disorder (NC/PTSD) to strengthen SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Veterans Affairs National the collaborative ties between the RCS Veterans Access, Choice, and Headquarters, located at 810 Vermont and the NC/PTSD, to improve VA Accountability Act of 2014, Public Law Avenue NW, Conference Room 530, services and products through Veteran 113–146, as amended, (the Act), section Washington, DC, 20420. The meetings consumer feedback and to provide 802, established the Veterans Choice will begin at 8:00 a.m. and adjourn at greater public awareness of VA and its Fund to be used by the Secretary of 4:30 p.m. The meetings are open to the achievements through quality services Veterans Affairs to carry out the public. to Veterans and families. Veterans Choice Program established by The purpose of the Committee is to In addition, the agenda will include section 101 of the Act. Pursuant to review the post-war readjustment needs time for Committee strategic planning sections 101(p)(1) and (2) of the Act, the of combat-theater Veterans and to focused on its annual operations Secretary may not furnish care and evaluate the availability, effectiveness priorities for 2018 and the strategic services under the Veterans Choice and coordination of VA programs perspectives for developing its 19th Program after the date on which the available to meet Veterans’ readjustment annual report to Congress. Secretary has exhausted all amounts service needs. No time will be allocated at this deposited in the Veterans Choice Fund. The agenda for Tuesday February 6 meeting for receiving oral presentations Section 101(p)(3) of the Act directs, not will feature meetings with VA and the from the public. However, members of later than 30 days prior, VA to publish Veterans Health Administration (VHA) the public may direct written questions this date in the Federal Register and on senior leadership to review the general or submit prepared statements for an internet website of the Department values, strategic priorities and current review by the Committee before the available to the public. Based on current perspectives on Veterans’ physical meeting to Mr. Charles M. Flora, data, VA believes it will have exhausted health and psychosocial welfare. 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