; and (D) overall, suicide rates are highest among patients with mental health and substance use disorder diagnoses who are in treatment and lower among those who received a mental health diagnoses but were not at risk enough to require enhanced care from a mental health provider. (2) Pairing a service dog with a veteran costs approximately $25,000, including training of the service dog as well as training of the veteran with the service dog and follow-up services and support. (3) Organizations like K9s For Warriors and other members of the Association of Service Dog Providers for Military Veterans have proven track-records of training service dogs for veterans with severe post-traumatic stress disorder and dramatically improving those veterans’ quality of life, ability to re-enter society, and, most importantly, their chances of survival. (4) New, rigorous scientific research provides persuasive weight to the growing anecdotal evidence that service dogs ameliorate the symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, and in particular, help prevent veteran suicide. (b) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that the Department of Veterans Affairs must be more effective in its approach to reducing the burden of veteran suicide connected to mental health disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder. 3. Department of Veterans Affairs program to provide grants for the provision of service dogs to certain veterans with severe post-traumatic stress disorder (a) Grants (1) In general The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall make grants to eligible organizations for the purposes of providing service dogs to eligible veterans. (2) Amount of grant A grant under this section shall be in an amount not to exceed $25,000 for each eligible veteran paired with a service dog. (b) Eligible organizations To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, an organization shall— (1) be a nonprofit organization that— (A) provides service dogs to veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (hereinafter in this