is diana manuel, who comes to us from the services of the armed forces from the american red cross. so we can hear a lot about many of these beautiful programs. and then next to her is -- kaitlyn thompson, and she is the director of the suicide prevention veteran's health administration or the v.a. and we know that is a difficult topic and something we really need to hear about, what is the v.a. doing to help with the untold numbers of suicide. here is how we're going to do this. we're going do give each of our vso presenters roughly 12 minutes to tell us about their organization. its mission, how it helps veterans and possibly how you can innerface as nami with these vsos. and then after we hear all of our four presenters we'll open it up for questions and comments and dialogue. and please, hold your questions until we hear from all four of our speakers. okay? so starting directly -- we're going to hear from our red cross service organization -- okay. v.a., right. >> i'm actually going to stand. >> please, please. >> hello, i currently oversee all of the v.a. suicide prevention eff

is diana manuel, who comes to us from the services of the armed forces from the american red cross. so we can hear a lot about many of these beautiful programs. and then next to her is -- kaitlyn thompson, and she is the director of the suicide prevention veteran's health administration or the v.a. and we know that is a difficult topic and something we really need to hear about, what is the v.a. doing to help with the untold numbers of suicide. here is how we're going to do this. we're going do give each of our vso presenters roughly 12 minutes to tell us about their organization. its mission, how it helps veterans and possibly how you can innerface as nami with these vsos. and then after we hear all of our four presenters we'll open it up for questions and comments and dialogue. and please, hold your questions until we hear from all four of our speakers. okay? so starting directly -- we're going to hear from our red cross service organization -- okay. v.a., right. >> i'm actually going to stand. >> please, please. >> hello, i currently oversee all of the v.a. suicide prevention eff