Resources
Alpha Omega Veterans Services
We are dedicated to meeting the physical, emotional, mental, and social needs of homeless veterans to assist their restoration to financial and residential stability and productive, fulfilled members of society.
American Legion Veterans Housing (Jewett City, CT)
TALVHI is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing affordable housing for veterans. We have architectural plans to renovate our 19th century, four-story American Legion LaFlamme-Kusek Post 15 building and to add on an additional building to provide a total of 18 single-unit dwellings.
American Red Cross Hygiene Kits
Hygiene kits bring comfort to homeless veterans. Approximately one-third of the adult homeless population are veterans. Help bring comfort to these heroes with a hygiene kit with items such as a razor, toothbrush, soap, washcloth, lotion and more.
Asset Building Network (Houston, TX)
Asset Building Network’s mission is to build and restore individuals and families to achieve self-sufficiency through the provision of case management services including advocacy, counseling, education, employment/job skills training, financial assistance, information and referral to community resources.
To find solutions to problems that affect today’s families in areas of crisis, broken families, disaster, divorce, loss of loved ones, substance abuse, and to promote self-sufficiency and wholeness. Clients are connect to resources to assist with rental and utilities assistance.
Description of programs and services provided by agency: We identify the needs of the individuals or families and coordinate referrals or services in the community to meet their needs. Other services we provide to our clients include: temporary housing assistance program for ex-offenders, and information and referral.
Bridging the Gap of Georgia
Bridging The Gap of Georgia (BTGG) is a non-profit organization that helps veterans reestablish themselves as productive members of society. Based on the principle of one individual helping another, we are providing an opportunity to network and help each other “Bridge The Gap” between veterans and the resources to help them thrive as the heroes they are. Bridging The Gap of Georgia brings hope into the eyes of an individual that has lost their hope, motivation, and determination in life.
Dignity Memorial Homeless Veterans Burial Program
The Dignity Memorial® Homeless Veterans Burial Program provides dignified burial services for eligible homeless and indigent veterans to ensure they receive the honors in death that their service in life merited.
Founded upon the belief that every veteran deserves a dignified and honorable burial, the Dignity Memorial Homeless Veterans Burial Program is a cooperative effort among Dignity Memorial funeral, cremation and cemetery service providers, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, local medical examiners, coroners, veterans advocates and veterans organizations.
Through the program, homeless and indigent veterans who have no family to claim them are identified and provided with a proper military burial. Dignity Memorial providers supply preparation of the body, transportation, clothing, casket and coordination of the funeral service. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs provides eligible veterans with the opening and closing of the gravesite, a grave liner, a headstone or marker, a graveside ceremony and burial in a National Cemetery.
Final Salute Inc. (Female veterans - DC, Maryland, or Virginia (DC Metro area)
The mission of Final Salute Inc. is to provide homeless female Veterans with safe and suitable housing.
The H.O.M.E Program provides transitional housing and housing subsidy assistance to homeless female Veterans and their children. The H.O.M.E Program focuses on integrating Veterans back into their local communities and providing vast, safe residential areas to choose from. Our H.O.M.E Program is a collaboration with our resource partners that includes targeted supportive services to assist female Veterans in reaching their goals.
The purpose of S.A.F.E is to prevent homelessness by easing financial hardships.
S.A.F.E will provide rent, deposit and utility assistance to all female Veterans and U.S. military reserve component service members via an interest free loan.
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity International is expanding its capacity to serve veterans and active military as homeowner partners and volunteers. In cooperation with the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), Habitat is developing a Veterans Initiative. CNCS will strengthen and expand its local efforts and develop resources that support local Habitat affiliates’ veterans programs. The goal is to better serve veterans and active military.
From coast to coast, military veterans and active military personnel are pitching in as Habitat volunteers, sometimes building for fellow vets or active military, sometimes for civilians. This partnership ― between the country’s biggest builder of simple, decent, affordable housing and those who have served or are serving their country ― is growing.
Homeless Disabled Veterans of the NorthWest (Oregon, Washington)
Homeless Disabled Veterans of the NorthWest Foundation (HDVNW) is a Transitional Housing Program. It is specifically designed to assist Homeless disabled veterans in Oregon and SW Washington in their transition back to civilian life.
Interfaith Community Services (Oceanside and Escondido, CA)
Through offices in Oceanside and Escondido, the emphasis of the Veterans Services Division is assisting clients to gain stable income and permanent housing. Any veteran who did not receive a dishonorable discharge is eligible for services. With the help of trained staff in several targeted programs, clients work to eliminate barriers to employment and self-sufficiency. Clients receive a thorough assessment of their needs to create an individual service plan. Progress in meeting goals of the plan is continuously monitored by their case managers.
Here is a basic listing of services that may be included in an individual services plan:
- placement (for men and women) in a transitional residence
- on-site psychological therapy
- workshop sessions to improve basic life skills and combat alcohol and drug abuse
- assistance in accessing health programs and other benefits provided by the VA
- limited financial assistance for transportation and basic personal needs
Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas (North Carolina, South Carolina)
About one-third of all adult homeless people have served in the U.S. armed forces. Some may be disabled or may have a diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder or other combat related illness making it difficult to find consistent work and housing. To address the need for quality housing, LFS Carolinas provides shelter for homeless veterans through transitional facilities in North and South Carolina.
The program includes employment and benefit assistance, transportation to and from medical appointments and job interviews, counseling, re-integration into the community and support from local faith groups. The objective is to transition the veterans to independent living as soon as possible. Follow up services will be given to the veterans by our own trained staff, as well as partner organizations.
- Kinard Manor – Greenwood, South Carolina
- Angels House – Columbia, South Carolina
- Faith Farm – Dallas, North Carolina
Madison Street Veterans Association (Phoenix, AZ)
A peer-run group of homeless and formerly homeless veterans offering personal, individualized service, basic resources, community and advocacy for all veterans.
Meals of Honor
It is our mission to honor every veteran of the United States Armed Forces. We do this by providing highly nutritious, vitamin enriched meals to their brothers and sisters in arms during their time of need. Our desire is to show every veteran that they have captured the heart of a grateful nation. We will continue this mission as long as we have hungry heroes. We don’t just serve those that served…we nourish them.
National Center on Family Homelessness
The National Center on Family Homelessness is a leader on Veterans issues, with an emphasis on women Veterans and Veteran family homelessness. We apply knowledge of military cultural competency, behavioral health issues, trauma-informed care, interpersonal violence to address Veterans' housing instability, food insecurity, and employment. We develop and provide innovative online resources, training, technical assistance, project management and research.
National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
If you are a homeless veteran or a veteran at risk of becoming homeless, these pages provide information that you can use to seek help. They include addresses, phone numbers and websites to find out about services, programs and other help that is available.
New Directions
New Directions provides a wide variety of services for homeless veterans, including job training and placement, parenting and money management classes, legal and financial assistance, counseling, remedial education and resources for alumni. Such a transformation takes hard work, motivation and accountability, but the results are life-altering - and for many veterans, life-saving. New Directions is a licensed, long-term drug and alcohol treatment program founded by three formerly homeless veterans. It has provided food, shelter, and rehabilitation since 1992 and provides services to more than 800 homeless veterans a year through four locations.
New Mexico Veterans Integration Centers
Our mission is to respond to the needs of veterans, with focus on those who are homeless or experiencing a housing crisis, through the provision of quality employment training, housing and supportive services based on a Continuum of Care.
Operation Dignity
Founded in 1993 by Vietnam Veteran Alex McElree, we offer a HAND-UP not a HAND-OUT approach, building community among vets and encouraging community outreach and support. Our services cover the continuum of the homeless situation, including a mobile outreach program.
Operation Renewed Hope Foundation
Operation Renewed Hope Foundation (ORHF) is a charitable veteran-led organization headquartered in Alexandria, VA. Our mission is to provide quality housing and supportive services to America’s homeless veterans. There are approximately 68,000 veterans living in transitional shelters or on the streets. These veterans served our great country and preserved our freedom. ORHF and its 20+ member volunteer team are determined to help these men and women secure homes for themselves and their family members.
ORHF works with the Department of Veterans Affairs and fully supports their goal of ending Veteran homelessness by 2015. General Shinseki stated “Our homeless veterans are counting on us to bring urgency to this fight.” Please join us in this fight.
Our Home Transitional
Our Home Transitional plans to provide various types of assistance to female veterans (i.e. job training and placement, educational training, home placement assistance, and mental and physical healthcare) through other local and national organizations in efforts to help them transition to self-sufficiency in civilian society. These programs will be offered by Our Home Transitional, along with our partnering organizations, such as the VA, HUD, CMH, SV MAP, Workforce Development, Cars4Vets, MI Talent bank and many more!
Our Home Transitional will deliver a unique family style environment not offered by any other housing placements in our area. We can also create an opportunity to revitalize and beautify the city of Flint, Michigan. Our goal is to obtain several abandoned or foreclosed homes within a one or two block area, and some in rural locations. This will give our residents a choice of a city or country setting during their time of transition.
Patriot Angels for Veterans
Patriot Angels for Veterans, is a one of a kind group of volunteers, who tackle veteran and active duty needs on all levels and aspects. Our unique group of dedicated friends, has come to function as team.
What started as friends from around the U.S.A. reaching out to help veterans who have fallen through the cracks of the system, returning, and active duty troops and deployed military members. The people this team has helped have come to the group in many ways, some looking for a helping hand with the red tape, others looking for a home to get off the streets or help with a hardship. We have been able to help the active duty men and women fight the problems of a broken system. We are dedicated and fearless in our quest to get what’s right for those we sent in harms way.
After realizing our troops have needs that go unmet, have invisible wounds, and a system that fails them, with each passing day we are getting more requests for help from our veterans and active duty members. The time has come to step up to the plate and do what needs to be done to help!
Pennsylvania American Legion - Housing for Homeless Veterans
In 1988, Pennsylvania American Legion Housing for Homeless Veterans Corporation purchased four town houses on Cypress Street, Moon Township in Allegheny County. The concept is simple — provide a safe,clean, stable environment for the participant while he/she completes schooling, job training and becomes adequately self sufficient to seek permanent housing in the surrounding community.
The Cypress Street Project quickly received national attention and has served as a basis for many similar projects in the Pittsburgh area and throughout the country.
Project Foot
The mission of Project Foot is to strengthen military families and assist homeless and unemployed veterans. Project Foot believes that the ONLY time the words “Veteran” and “Homeless” should ever be used in the same sentence is: “Veterans Helping the Homeless.”
Project Foot achieves this mission through providing a wide variety of programs that include:
- Housing and food for homeless veterans
- Communication assistance for military families
- Travel assistance for military families
- Resume writing and job search services for unemployed veterans
- Providing business attire for unemployed veterans
- Through these programs, Project Foot aims to keep the bonds of our military families strong throughout their service to our Armed Forces and to be there to pick up the pieces when one of our brave men or women falls through the cracks.
Project H3 Vets (Arizona)
Project H3 VETS is a special initiative based off Project H3 and the 100,000 homes campaign to house chronically homeless veterans. Project H3 VETS will use the Vulnerability Index Survey to prioritize the mostmedically vulnerable homeless veterans living on the streets in the Phoenix Metro area. The project will utilizethe HUD-VASH supportive housing program to provide permanent housing and supportive services which includes case management, social support, and mental health services to chronically homeless veterans.
Currently the process to house a chronically homeless veteran in the HUD-VASH program is an average of 126 days. Project H3 VETS will work with community partners, navigation teams, and Local, State, and Federal agencies, utilizing the process/practices learned during Project H3 to house chronically homeless veterans in a quarter of the time.
Rebuilding Together
Millions of U.S. veterans are in desperate need of repairs and adaptations to their homes. Rebuilding Together’s Veterans Housing was created to meet the growing needs of veterans from past and present wars. Rebuilding Together fills the gaps in modifications and repair services that retired and active service men and women struggle to meet. In partnership with corporate sponsors, Rebuilding Together’s Veterans Housing strives to provide safe and accessible housing for all low-income veterans.
Restoring Hope Community Services (Perris, CA)
Welcome to Restoring Hope Commuity Services, Inc. We are a non-profit organization. We are a faith-based organization established in 2006. Our vision is to create and establish housing for homeless veterans, pregnant teenagers, run-away teenagers; in addition to a women and children shelter for abused and domestic violence victims.
The first phase of our vision is to build a community living facility for veterans that are homeless up to 24 months. Thus, the new facility will house up to six men at a time. We are committed to providing room and board to assist in helping them establish a new beginning with support services and programs provided by Loma Linda Veterans Administration. To find out how you can volunteer with Restoring Hope Community Services - send your request to volunteer@restoringhopecommunityservices.org.
Soldier On
Soldier On’s mission is expanding. We have been assisting homeless veterans since 1994. Now, however, we are moving beyond simply offering a response to veteran homelessness to providing a permanent solution. With our Veterans Village projects, we will offer formerly homeless veterans a chance to own their homes — more often than not for the first time in their lives. Our work still begins with getting homeless veterans off the streets.
Stand Down
Stand Down, owned & operated by Faith*Hope*Love*Charity, Inc. (FHLC, Inc.), assists male veterans who are struggling and have lost their homes and ability to lead productive lives due to combat and non-combat related mental and physical wounds/illness, addictions, and/or other issues regain their independence and lives through transitional living, a multi tiered program, and collaboration with government agencies, VSOs, and the community.
Steps N Stages Jubilee House (Fayetteville, NC)
Our agency will provide transitional housing and permanent housing for women veterans. This house length of stay is determined on an individual basis depending upon circumstances and requirements. For women veterans and their dependents. Services and support provided will include:
- Job Search Assistance/Referral
- Transitional Housing for Homeless Veterans
- Assistance with Discharge Upgrades
- Financial Literacy Classes
- Transportation to VA for medical care and treatment
- Peer counseling and support groups
And above all, compassionate care and consideration for the daughters of our nation.
St. Jude's Veterans Center (Land o Lakes, FL)
The mission of St Jude’s Veterans Center is to bring hope, direction, information, relief and the promise of a better tomorrow to our veterans and their families. We extend a helping hand to enable to attain a new direction in their lives, helping to provide a new sense of purpose and meaning as we help treat the whole person. The primary focus is to enable and empower veterans and their families by giving them the tools and support mechanisms to continue to be productive citizens to society.
Support Homeless Veterans
Created in 2011 to combat the growing epidemic of homelessness among American veterans, Support Homeless Veterans (SHV) is devoted to bringing quality of life to these forgotten heroes.
Our supported housing program combines holistic care with classical military camaraderie to join veterans together as a family. Motivated and supported, SHV provides opportunities for veterans to become part of a philosophy to support disadvantaged veterans and prevent homelessness for future generations.
Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) - VA
The Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) Program is a new VA program that awards grants to private non-profit organizations and consumer cooperatives who will provide supportive services to very low-income Veterans and their families residing in or transitioning to permanent housing. The grantees will provide a range of supportive services designed to promote housing stability.
Swords to Plowshares
War causes wounds and suffering that last beyond the battlefield. Swords to Plowshares’ mission is to heal the wounds, to restore dignity, hope, and self-sufficiency to all veterans in need, and to significantly reduce homelessness and poverty among veterans.
Founded in 1974, Swords to Plowshares is a community-based, not-for-profit organization that provides counseling and case management, employment and training, housing, and legal assistance to more than 1500 homeless and low-income veterans annually in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. We promote and protect the rights of veterans through advocacy, public education, and partnerships with local, state, and national entities.
Swords to Plowshares is the only veterans service agency in the United States that provides a full continuum of care. We help vets, as well as families of vets, in the following areas:
Health & Social Services - Swords to Plowshares’ drop-in center provides emergency shelter, mental health services and referrals to homeless veterans.
Housing - Swords to Plowshares’ residential programs provide housing, rehabilitation and counseling to veterans in need.
Veterans Academy - At Swords to Plowshares’ Veterans Academy, formerly homeless veterans can live in a supportive community.
The Guardians Foundation Banner Program
We are proud to introduce our hallmark project, The Guardians Banner. This is a simple tool that anyone can display to not only show their support for our veterans, but take it one step further and let people know that they actually provide assistance to the veterans of their community. This banner can be displayed on homes, churches, businesses or anywhere else a veteran might go to seek aid.
By taking ownership of this banner, you will provide assistance to a disenfranchised homeless veteran. With selfless service, you will provide one or more of the key pieces to help these men and women navigate their lives back to mainstream society.
The New England Center for Homeless Veterans
Our mission is to assist veterans who are homeless, unemployed, or underemployed with the tools to move toward self-sufficiency.
The school accomplishes this mission by providing veterans with necessary training and job skills to obtain and retain competitive employment in today's ever-changing market. To meet our goal, the Veterans Training School partners with local businesses to provide apprenticeship and entry-level positions to our graduates. Together with educational institutions, we offer certificate and degree-seeking programs.
The Vet Hunters Project
The Vet Hunters Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing and ending homelessness for all military veterans/families and individual Americans we meet.
The Vet Hunters Project encourages people to think about what they can do in the service of others. No matter your location, age, or income, you have some resource, knowledge, or ability that can be used to help someone else. The Vet Hunters Project revolves around the idea that social change starts on the individual level, and that helping even one person can lead to change in an entire community.
VA
Homepage for VA homeless programs.
VEO of Georgia
VEO of Georgia accepts homeless veterans from the streets of Atlanta into our unique and effective Rapid Rehousing-to-Permanent Housing program. We are here to help our homeless heroes regain their dignity and become self-sufficient again.
Veterans Assistance Foundation
The Veterans Assistance Foundation operates programs designed to assist homeless or at risk of becoming homeless veterans maintain or improve their status in society by providing a safe and secure environment through which they can access a wide array of human services. The focus of these programs is to assist homeless veterans with the services that have prevented them from becoming re-established in their communities.
It is the focus of the VAF to: "Transition homeless veterans (or those veterans at risk of becoming homeless) into society’s mainstream. This will be done by assisting them to obtain meaningful employment and subsequently, safe, decent, and sanitary housing." Our programs do not provide emergency shelter.
Veterans First (Orange County, CA)
For over forty years, our goal at Veterans First has been to honor every brave man or woman who has served this country by helping to restore dignity to those whose sacrifices defending the freedoms we cherish have left them in need. Every person who raises their hand and takes a pledge to defend our country is a hero. Until there are no American heroes sleeping in the streets, in cars or in alleyways, we will be there for them just as they were there for all of us.
Veteran's Helping Veterans Now (Longmont, CO)
Providing free services for veterans and families in Boulder County, CO. Our mission is to build healthier lives for veterans and their families, reaching out to those who would not be reached, honoring those who served.
VHVnow offers four types of programs, largely delivered by veterans and family members:
- Scheduled programs include four ongoing support groups facilitated by licensed therapists – for veterans with PTSD/Addiction issues, for veteran volunteers, and for women with a military connection. The alcohol-free drop-in center is open week days and many Sundays where veterans and family members come to relax, watch TV, use acomputer, and socialize. Acupuncture, massage, mindfulness training, and frequent social events are available for veterans and family members.
- Educational opportunities such as The Veteran Family Talk Series are open to the public, and address PTSD, TBI, Suicide Prevention, Alcoholism and Secondary Trauma. VHVnow also uses radio, newspaper and television interviews to reach the public. We recently created a DVD on “PTSD and TBI Awareness” for the justice system.
- One-on-one support involves a volunteer assisting an individual client. Examples include visiting clients in jail or at a homeless day shelter, driving veterans to the V.A., or helping a mother or spouse cope. Our veteran volunteers are not professional counselors or therapists; they are good listeners who will understand.
- Referrals include the many inquiries that VHVnow receives that become referrals to the V.A., to a benefit officer, to a homeless shelter, etc. The clients receive extensive support (in person and by phone or emails) that increases their likelihood of follow-through.
Veterans Inc.
Veterans Inc. is a national leader in ending homelessness among veterans. We have one of the highest rates in the nation – 85% – for transitioning veterans out of homelessness.
Headquartered in Massachusetts, Veterans Inc. is the largest provider of services to veterans and their families in New England. Since 1991, we have helped more than 40,000 veterans and their families. Operations are expanding further into New England and beyond in our goal of eradicating homelessness among veterans.
Veteran's Life Changing Services (NW Indiana, Illinois)
Veterans Life Changing Services, Inc. (VLCS) is a Transitional Housing Program of Each One Reach One Child 501(c)(3) Corporation. It is specifically designed to assist Northwest Indiana and Illinois service men and women in their transition back into civilian life.
VLCS is helping to create a Veteran community in Northwest Indiana and Illinois that provide stabilized housing support services that increase education and job skill levels of Veterans and promote greater self determination. Currently we assist homeless veterans in Northwest Indiana and are expanding housing opportunities in Indiana and Illinois. Northwest Indiana , Lake County Veteran population is 38,887. Our homeless count in our communities range from 15.7% on any given night. Our program is comparably unique to local shelter services which target Northwest Indiana and Illinois high population of homelessness to feed and shelter people overnight with no support services. Each One Reach One Child has the experience of helping homeless veterans obtain these objectives. Our services target male and female veterans and their families to offer safe holistic productive lifestyles.
Veterans Project
Many communties lack funding for veterans assistance programs and housing is no exception. The Veterans Administration estimates that 107,000 veterans are homeless on any given night. Over the course of a year, approximately twice that many experience homelessness. We can give back to our veterans and thank them for their service by making sure we do our best, so that they never have to spend another night on the street.
Our mission is to raise awareness and funds for Veterans Project, which is a nonprofit organization that provides homeless veterans and at risk to-be homeless veterans a permanent residence.
Veterans Village of San Diego
With five locations throughout San Diego County, VVSD is the only program of its kind in the United States.
VVSD provides a Continuum of Care with a full range of comprehensive and innovative services for military veterans for: Prevention, Intervention, Treatment, Aftercare. "There is no finer program for homeless veterans in America than VVSD." Pete Dougherty, national Director of VA Homeless Programs. "VVSD sets the bar," and is the "gold standard of transitional veteran housing." James Nicholson, former Secretary of Veterans Affairs
VVSD extends assistance to veterans in need and their families by providing:
- Job Training and Job Search Assistance
Vet Hunters
The Vet Hunters Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing and ending HOMElessness for all military Veterans/Families and individual Americans we meet.
Our vision is to prevent homelessness among military veterans/non-veterans and their families by restoring self-sufficiency and self-worth through comprehensive programs that provide: permanent housing, emergency shelter, substance abuse counseling, personal support/developmental services, job assessment referral and training, educational services and life-skills training.
Volunteers of America
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program awards grants to private non-profit organizations and consumer cooperatives who can provide supportive services to very low-income veteran families living in or transitioning to permanent housing.
Grantees provide eligible veteran families with outreach, case management, and assistance in obtaining VA and other benefits, which may include:
- Personal financial planning services
- Fiduciary and payee services
- Housing counseling services
The Volunteers of America website lists their local offices that provide SSVF services.
Wish Upon a Hero Foundation - Homeless Hero Program
The Homeless Hero program helps homeless people through teaching responsibility and supplying basic needs. A multilevel rewards program encentivizes homeless individuals to network within their homeless community. This allows our staff to find and help more homeless people faster than ever before. In a 4 week period the Wish Upon A Hero Foundation touch the lives of over 80 homeless people on the streets of Philadelphia and distributed over $2,000 worth of food and clothing.
How does the program work? Each homeless person is given a T-Shirt and a $5 food gift card. The following week, if they return wearing the T-shirt and connect us with other homeless individuals, then they receive an additional $5 food gift card for wearing the shirt. They also earn $1 for connecting us with 1 homeless person, $3 for connecting us with 2 homeless people, and $6 for connecting us with 3 homeless person. The multi-level helping program then applies to this new tier of homeless program members and so forth. Each homeless person now has the ability to help himself and others in his homeless community while being rewarded for their connections.
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A high school student volunteers at a soup kitchen to earn credit for his Civics class. He learns to see beyond his own world and is transformed through his interactions with the homeless, especially by a veteran named Jacques who is plagued by his wartime experiences in Rwanda.