[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 193 (Thursday, October 4, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50145-50146]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-21626]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Creating Options for Veterans Expedited Recovery (COVER)
Commission; Notice of Meeting
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Creating
Options for Veterans Expedited Recover (COVER) Commission gives notice
that a meeting will be held:
1. October 16, 2018 Palo Alto Heath Care System (PAHCS), Main
Campus
2. October 17, 2018 PAHCS, Menlo Park Facility.
3. November 5 and 6, 2018, from 1-4 p.m. or completion of out-
briefs whatever comes first, VANTS Call.
The October 16, 2018 meeting will convene at the Palo Alto Medical
Facility and will be open to the public from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.;
location for opens sessions is the Auditorium at the Palo Alto Division
Campus (Building 101, Room C1-100). On October 17, 2018 the meeting
will be held at the Menlo Park Facility and open to the public from
8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.; location for open sessions at Menlo Park
Facility is the Welcome Center Community Room (Building 400, Room 107.
All other sessions will be closed as the Commissioners will split into
several interview/data collection teams to accomplish research, discuss
relevance of the interviews and research and focus group information
collected, and conduct sensitive interviews/focus groups with Veterans.
The public is not invited to interviews in order protect privacy data
and proprietary information under S.C. 552b(c) under (9)(B) ``because
it would reveal information the disclosure of which would, ``in the
case of an agency, be likely to significantly frustrate implementation
of a proposed agency action.''
October 16, 2018 open meetings will consist of briefings on:
1. Mental Health and Suicide Prevention by the facility Chief
2. Complementary and Integrative Health
3. Whole Health
October 17, 2018, open meetings will consist of briefings on:
1. Office of Mental Health data (to include statistics on mental health
providers
2. Presentation by Dr. Amit Etkin, Associate Professor of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University and Investigator for
Sierra-Pacific Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center
(MIRECC); topic:
Research related to Veterans with Mental Health Conditions
November 5 and 6, 2018 meetings are VANTS line by Commissioners and
a listening line for the public to call in. These meetings are for
commissioners to out brief and summarize the interview/data collection
teams' findings from October 16 and 17 and to further discuss
applicability to the charter and legislative requirements.
The line number for the public on October 16 and 17 for open
sessions and November 5 and 6 for open calls is 800-767-1750; access
code 48664#. The line number will be activated 10 minutes before each
of the open or call in sessions.
The purpose of the COVER Commission is to examine the evidence-
based therapy treatment model used by the Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA) for treating mental health conditions of
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Veterans and the potential benefits of incorporating complementary and
integrative health approaches as standard practice throughout the
Department.
Members of the public are invited to open sessions. Videotaping or
recording, tweeting commission or staff photos or comments are
discouraged as they are disruptive to Commission members and staff and
other audience members. Any member of the public seeking additional
information should email COVER [email protected]. The Designated
Federal Officer for the Commission is Ms. Sheila B. Hickman. She and
the staff will be monitoring and responding to questions or comments
sent to this email box. The Committee will also accept written comments
which may be sent to the same email box. In the public's communications
with the Committee, the writers must identify themselves and state the
organizations, associations, or persons they represent.
Dated: October 1, 2018.
LaTonya L. Small,
Federal Advisory Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018-21626 Filed 10-3-18; 8:45 am]
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