The Air Force touts its True North program as a unique success in getting mental health support directly into some of its most stressful workplaces. Rather than expect airmen who need mental help support to take time away from their daily jobs to visit professionals in clinics and hospitals, the program embeds mental health and religious support teams directly in units, where airmen work.

But officials at Air Education and Training Command, or AETC, are now looking to cut the program, as part of cost-cutting across its civilian workforce.

Although an AETC spokesperson told Task & Purpose that the command’s proposal is not final, the move is already having repercussions. Jeffery Clark, a licensed clinical social worker, told Task & Purpose he recently resigned from True North at Fairchild

See Full Page