IMPROVEMENT AND EXPANSION OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.

SEC. 203. IMPROVEMENT AND EXPANSION OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.(a) Required Capacity for Community-Based Outpatient Clinics.—(1) In general.—The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall ensure that each community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs has the capacity to provide, or monitor the provision of, mental health services to enrolled veterans who, as determined by the Secretary, are in need of such services.(2) Settings.—In carrying out paragraph (1), the Secretary shall ensure that mental health services are provided through—(A) a community-based outpatient clinic of the Department by an employee of the Department;(B) referral to another facility of the Department;(C) contract with an appropriate mental health professional in the community; or(D) telemental health services.(b) Clinical Training and Protocols.—(1) Collaboration.—The National Center on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder of the Department of Veterans Affairs shall collaborate with the Secretary of Defense—(A) to enhance the clinical skills of military clinicians on matters relating to post-traumatic stress disorder through training, treatment protocols, web-based interventions, and the development of evidence-based interventions; and(B) to promote pre-deployment resilience and post-deployment readjustment among members of the Armed Forces serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.(2) Authorization of appropriations.—There are authorized to be appropriated for the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2007 $2,000,000 to carry out this subsection.(c) Mental Health Outreach.—The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall—(1) develop additional educational materials on post-traumatic stress disorder; and(2) undertake additional efforts to educate veterans about post-traumatic stress disorder.(d) Review of PTSD Clinical Guidelines.—The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall—120 STAT. 3411 (1) review the clinical guidelines of the Department of Veterans Affairs on post-traumatic stress disorder and all appropriate protocols related to post-traumatic stress disorder;(2) revise such guidelines and protocols as the Secretary considers appropriate to ensure that clinicians are able to effectively distinguish between diagnoses with similar symptoms that may manifest as post-traumatic stress disorder, including traumatic brain injury; and(3) develop performance measures for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder among veterans.