The health care teams should receive specialized training to be able to intervene in a complete way and properly receive the veterans, taking into account the fact that the request for help from military men does not always present in the same way. Those teams should also use precise clinical tools, as well as ensure follow-up and access to services and resources.
The networks of sentinels we referred to could also be proposed. These sentinels have to be volunteer adults who are already in a role where they have the trust of the person, who can open up and agree to talk about his troubles. The sentinels cannot be members of the health care team. They really have to be people who are involved with the veterans and can have access to them, even if they are not specialists.
If I may, I'd like to make a parallel between veterans and the agricultural milieu. We have created massive sentinel networks there, and we even set up training specifically for the agricultural environment. Agricultural producers are often isolated, and they aren't necessarily part of a network. That said, there are still people who gravitate around them and see them, because they provide services. Those are the people who are trained as sentinels to reach out to farmers.
You could think of setting up a similar system for veterans, that is to say assess where they go, who they see, who they are in contact with regularly in their daily lives. Those people can become sentinels, if they want to, of course. Indeed, that cannot be an obligation. The training of intervenors is central to all of this. The sentinel must himself have access to support and be able to direct the suicidal person to an intervenor 24/7.