Issue Position: Veterans and Military Families

Issue Position

Nevada has one of the highest populations of veterans and active duty military personnel in the country, and I believe we must strongly support military families and our returning veterans. More than 11,000 military children nationwide lack adequate access to child care. One simple way we can support these families is by prioritizing child care options for active duty military families and families who have had a service member declared killed-in-action, missing-in-action, or taken as a prisoner of war.

We can also expand services to assist returning veterans in their transition back to civilian life. This includes healthcare and mental health services, as well as job and educational opportunities. I support efforts to ensure our veterans have access to our higher education institutions, as well as job training programs. To this end, I believe we must also do more to ensure the veterans returning to our state are able to utilize the expertise from their military experience, and to have access to quality jobs in our community by promoting those unique skills and talent, and utilizing their training to support our local businesses and economy.

I support efforts to create new services for victims of military sexual trauma and will work to ensure those victims receive the treatment they deserve, and will equally work to ensure we are actively working to address the veteran suicide rate. Next session, we must make sure those services and others are fully funded. Supporting our military veterans and their families is imperative.

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