They also take related steps on mental health and school safety.

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Only recently, the VA has taken steps to add mental health counselors and 24-hour suicide prevention services at all facilities, following high-profile incidents of suicides involving veterans.

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Combined these five steps can help you address mental, social, physical, and financial aspects that lead to a successfully transition into retirement.

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Flab that will begin melting away moments after you stand up, lace up your mental sneakers, and begin taking concrete steps to create the career, and the life, you want and deserve.

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He also wants Congress to take steps to better screen people with mental illnesses, so they cannot obtain weapons.

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Possible steps include better monitoring of people with mental illness to prevent them from obtaining firearms.

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Other steps under consideration include better monitoring of people with mental illness to prevent them from obtaining guns.

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