Released funds for year four of the grant program

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration awarded Nation's Finest $750,000 on October 1, 2025, under the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program (CFDA 64.055) for Year Four funding, with a performance period ending September 30, 2026.

Nation's Finest, doing business as Veterans Resource Centers of America and based in Santa Rosa, California, delivers suicide prevention services to veterans and their families through outreach, direct services, and connection to VA and community resources. The grant program funds community-based suicide prevention efforts addressing the needs of eligible veterans and their families to reduce suicide risk and improve mental health and wellbeing. Eligible individuals include veterans, individuals with specific service-connected conditions, and those meeting criteria under 38 U.S.C. sections 1720I and 1712A.

This is the fourth consecutive annual award to Nation's Finest under this program, with prior-year obligations ranging from approximately $695,000 to $746,000. The organization operates exclusively in California and Nevada, providing homeless veteran services including emergency residential services, transitional housing, case management, clinical treatment, and counseling. Nation's Finest receives the majority of its federal support from the Veterans Health Administration; the Department of Veterans Affairs accounts for 82 percent of recent awards, with additional funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Labor. The recipient operates four active indefinite delivery contracts with Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 and holds recurring grants under the VA Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program (CFDA 64.033) and the VA's Grant and Per Diem Program (CFDA 64.024).