Comments on: 12 Percent of all Sheltered Homeless Adults are Veterans http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/07/11/12-percent-of-all-sheltered-homeless-adults-are-veterans/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=12-percent-of-all-sheltered-homeless-adults-are-veterans Military Veterans and Foreign Affairs Journal - VA - Veterans Administration Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: 23psalm http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/07/11/12-percent-of-all-sheltered-homeless-adults-are-veterans/comment-page-1/#comment-18944 23psalm Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:21:43 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/?p=7891#comment-18944 Dear Vethelper, I am touched and moved by your expression of outreach for veterans around the country; I too, am inspired to do more for veterans in my home state of North Carolina. I would am interested in contacting you and learning more about your program--you can contact me by email at 23psalm@excite.com. Dear Vethelper,

I am touched and moved by your expression of outreach for veterans around the country; I too, am inspired to do more for veterans in my home state of North Carolina. I would am interested in contacting you and learning more about your program–you can contact me by email at 23psalm@excite.com.

]]> By: BOB http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/07/11/12-percent-of-all-sheltered-homeless-adults-are-veterans/comment-page-1/#comment-18702 BOB Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:40:27 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/?p=7891#comment-18702 The world aint all sunshine and rainbows. Its a very rough mean place. And no matter how tough you think you are it will always bring you to your knees and keep you there. Permanently. If you let it. You or nobody aint ever gonna hit as hard as life. But it aint about how hard you hit. Its about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take. And keep movin. Forward.. If you know what your worth, go out and get what your worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit. The world aint all sunshine and rainbows. Its a very rough mean place. And no matter how tough you think you are it will always bring you to your knees and keep you there. Permanently. If you let it.
You or nobody aint ever gonna hit as hard as life.
But it aint about how hard you hit. Its about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
How much you can take. And keep movin.
Forward..
If you know what your worth, go out and get what your worth.
But you gotta be willing to take the hit.

]]> By: Vethelper http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/07/11/12-percent-of-all-sheltered-homeless-adults-are-veterans/comment-page-1/#comment-18670 Vethelper Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:33:58 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/?p=7891#comment-18670 As a Case Manager for the United States Veterans Initiative in Long Beach Calif. I am noticing a few trends of my own. The homeless Vets that are now coming to us for housing and employment are of the Vietnam era and due to their age have lost their jobs, their families, their homes, and their self esteem. We are the last hope for the hopeless. When they come to us they tend to succeed (95% success rate) and seem not to ever leave which has caused us to open more programs and build more long term housing so the program can continue to help those still on the streets. In Los Angeles county it is so bad that one in four homeless individuals served honorably in the military so we have an outreach team for each site going to where we know the homeless go for services to intice them into a new life by allowing us to help them. We (with the help of Boeing) have opened a new building on our 23 acre site where we concentrate on the needs of just the Iraq and Afghanistan vets coming home. We opened the doors to the program two months ago and it is full already! If this trend continues I see a Tidal wave of recently discharged Veterans in need of assistance and placing even more of a drain on the already problematic issue of housing our Nations Heroes. The CDVA has stepped up to the plate and is now building 3 new sites to house the older Vets with SSI, NSC Pensions /and S/C comphensation checks which will do much to ease the overburdened program in Calif. I hope the rest of the Nation can do the same for our Vets in their individual states. We have 11 sites across the Nation and are one of the leaders in helping Veterans, but there are a lot of great new programs out there doing the same job in different locations. To all of you I wish you well and keep up the fight for those who fought for us. To our Congress, Senators, and new President Please do not forget that without those men and women swearing to give their lives if needed, we would be a different country all together. As a Case Manager for the United States Veterans Initiative in Long Beach Calif. I am noticing a few trends of my own. The homeless Vets that are now coming to us for housing and employment are of the Vietnam era and due to their age have lost their jobs, their families, their homes, and their self esteem. We are the last hope for the hopeless. When they come to us they tend to succeed (95% success rate) and seem not to ever leave which has caused us to open more programs and build more long term housing so the program can continue to help those still on the streets. In Los Angeles county it is so bad that one in four homeless individuals served honorably in the military so we have an outreach team for each site going to where we know the homeless go for services to intice them into a new life by allowing us to help them. We (with the help of Boeing) have opened a new building on our 23 acre site where we concentrate on the needs of just the Iraq and Afghanistan vets coming home. We opened the doors to the program two months ago and it is full already! If this trend continues I see a Tidal wave of recently discharged Veterans in need of assistance and placing even more of a drain on the already problematic issue of housing our Nations Heroes. The CDVA has stepped up to the plate and is now building 3 new sites to house the older Vets with SSI, NSC Pensions /and S/C comphensation checks which will do much to ease the overburdened program in Calif. I hope the rest of the Nation can do the same for our Vets in their individual states. We have 11 sites across the Nation and are one of the leaders in helping Veterans, but there are a lot of great new programs out there doing the same job in different locations. To all of you I wish you well and keep up the fight for those who fought for us. To our Congress, Senators, and new President Please do not forget that without those men and women swearing to give their lives if needed, we would be a different country all together.

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