---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 1789"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "1789"
heading: "Mental health services for members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/1789"
units:
  - "Part II — General Benefits"
  - "Chapter 17 — Hospital, Nursing Home, Domiciliary, and Medical Care"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Health Care of Persons Other Than Veterans"
---

# §1789. Mental health services for members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces


The [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1), in consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) of Defense, may furnish mental health services to members of the [reserve components](/usc/38/101.md?p=27) of the [Armed Forces](/usc/38/101.md?p=10).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title VII, § 763(a), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3725.)