Record rates of suicide and homicide, mental health and substance abuse problems, domestic violence and marital conflict, work and financial troubles, emotional problems in children, consequences of sexual trauma among female soldiers, traumatic brain injury, need for social support, and homelessness – these are the issues that are surfacing.

MHA-H is launching an effort to enable Hawai`i, as a state with a significant military presence, to come together as a community to determine how we can increase the support available to our returning military, their spouses, and their children.
The purpose of MHA-H’s “Healing the Trauma of War” project is twofold:
- To identify the unmet needs specifically of returning National Guard/Reserves, their spouses, and their children, and develop and implement an action plan to address those needs; and
- To hold town hall meetings that convene the public, the military, and others (schools, employers, providers, policymakers) to discuss how we as a community can come together to help solve some of the problems facing our soldiers and their families.
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