Emergency Mental Health Care
Walk into any ER for free crisis care. Up to 30 days inpatient, 90 days outpatient. No referral, no enrollment, no copay. The headline of the entire Act.
The Veterans COMPACT Act gives every veteran the right to free emergency mental health care, suicide prevention services, and outreach support — at no cost, regardless of discharge status, enrollment, or service connection. Most veterans were never briefed on it. Veterans Hope Project is the briefing.
Veteran-led. Available now. No enrollment required.
The most urgent thing the COMPACT Act does: any veteran in acute suicidal crisis can walk into any emergency room and receive free care. No referral. No copay. No exceptions. Memorize these four steps.
Call Veterans Hope Project — free, confidential, veteran-led.
The Veterans Comprehensive Prevention, Access to Care, and Treatment Act of 2020 is a suicide-prevention law with several major provisions. Here is what each one gives you — every benefit, every protection, every right.
Walk into any ER for free crisis care. Up to 30 days inpatient, 90 days outpatient. No referral, no enrollment, no copay. The headline of the entire Act.
Funds the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant — community organizations supporting at-risk veterans where they live.
Mandates active outreach to veterans transitioning out of service and those at elevated risk — so the door isn't only open to those who already know it exists.
Specific provisions for women veterans, including outreach, care environments, and access to gender-specific mental health support and resources.
Requires care environments and outreach that explicitly serve LGBTQ veterans — including those previously denied care under prior policies.
Almost every veteran. The Act covers former service members regardless of discharge status, enrollment, or service connection. If you served, this likely covers you.
Veterans Hope Project — we'll walk you through everything, free.
Codified in 38 U.S.C. § 1720J, Section 201 guarantees that any veteran in acute suicidal crisis can receive free emergency mental health care at any ER in the country, paid for by the VA — without prior authorization, without enrollment, without a copay.
It went into effect in January 2023. It applies whether you served two years or twenty, whether your discharge was honorable or other-than-honorable, whether you've ever set foot in a VA. The door is already open. We're just telling you it exists.
Call Veterans Hope Project — veteran-led, free, confidential.
Service members are briefed on everything in uniform. They get out, the briefings stop — right when the rights get most complicated. Veterans Hope Project exists to deliver the brief that should have been waiting at the door: every right, every dollar of care, every protection the COMPACT Act gives you, written for a person, not a lawyer.
We are veteran-led. We are independent. We do not bill anyone, including you. We do not run a clinic, a crisis line, or a fundraising machine. We translate the law and point at the door.
Veterans Hope Project is here for you. We also point you to official VA resources. All support is free and available to any veteran.
Veteran-led support, free and confidential. We help you understand your rights and access the care you've earned.
(520) 655-3533The full official text and benefits summary at va.gov. Read exactly what the law guarantees you.
The single most useful thing you can do is forward this page to one veteran in your life. They might already need it. Either way, they should have been told.