The Veteran Homelessness Crisis
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The Veteran Homelessness Crisis
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Author : Earl H. Lopez
language : en
Publisher: Nova Snova
Release Date : 2022-10-20
The Veteran Homelessness Crisis written by Earl H. Lopez and has been published by Nova Snova this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-20 with categories.
In 2009, the Department of Veterans Affairs committed to ending veteran homelessness by the end of 2015. Significant steps have been taken to get our heroes the services they need with, roughly, 50,000 fewer veterans experiencing homelessness than a decade ago. However, there is still much work still to do. Congress has continued working to improve the variety of Federal programs that currently exist to support homeless veterans. This includes permanent housing, transitional housing, prevention services, treatment, and employment programs.
Housing Our Heroes
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Housing Our Heroes written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Homeless veterans categories.
Homelessness
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Author : Patrick Kincaid
language : en
Publisher: Nova Snova
Release Date : 2020-07-17
Homelessness written by Patrick Kincaid and has been published by Nova Snova this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-17 with categories.
There are over a half million people experiencing homelessness in the United States, nearly 160,000 of them are children, and nearly 38,000 are veterans. This book reports on the national homelessness crisis.
Homelessness Among U S Veterans
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Author : Jack Tsai
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019
Homelessness Among U S Veterans written by Jack Tsai and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Medical categories.
The challenges facing military veterans who return to civilian life in the United States are persistent and well documented. But for all the political outcry and attempts to improve military members' readjustments, veterans of all service eras face formidable obstacles related to mental health, substance abuse, employment, and — most damningly — homelessness. Homelessness Among U.S. Veterans synthesizes the new glut of research on veteran homelessness — geographic trends, root causes, effective and ineffective interventions to mitigate it — in a format that provides a needed reference as this public health fight continues to be fought. Codifying the data and research from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) campaign to end veteran homelessness, psychologist Jack Tsai links disparate lines of research to produce an advanced and elegant resource on a defining social issue of our time.
Veteran Family In Crisis
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Author : Aria Maywood
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2020-06-27
Veteran Family In Crisis written by Aria Maywood and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-27 with categories.
The world is turning upside down, as families who were barely getting by before, now find themselves facing foreclosures and homelessness. Veteran families are no different, even with their homes under VA secure home loans. All it takes is losing your job unexpectedly, an unexpected medical bill, accident or natural disaster, to throw you into a sea of debt and additional hardships that launch you into a path that leads to losing your home. That's exactly what my family is facing right now, and unless the higher power that be or some amazing miracle appears, unless someone, somewhere who has the ability to help us turn things around and stop this horrific and cruel injustice, we almost surely will be losing our home in the next three months.. Without warning or reason, my husband lost the dream job that he had left the safety and security of active duty to take. It was that pay that our mortgage was based on, and there was no way we could have known it would only last for four short months. I made the mistake of thinking that finally life was going to start going our way, and stop kicking us around, after all that was the story my husband and i seemed to share. All that we wanted was to work, pay our bills, and enjoy our first home, while giving my son the chance to have a stable home that didn't have us moving to another duty station. For the first time in a very long time, i saw happiness and excitement on my sons face, and that was worth everything. I'll never forget the day my husband came home to tell me they had let him go without a reason. i will also ever forget how quickly our lives would go from living paycheck to paycheck, to watching it all come apart as the weeks and months that followed, turned into years. The battle to try and keep our home and not be forced out on the streets and homeless has been devastating and full of one nightmare after another. We are living proof that you can follow the rules, do everything right, and still get knocked on your butt. For the last three years, we have had to do everything we legally can to try and save our home from foreclosure and beg and plead the previous and current lenders to really help us and not just offer us band aid solutions. What we got were drawn out months of stalling and racking up interest and fees, while continued to deny us and push on with the foreclosure. Its concrete proof that profits and the laws protect and support the wealthy lenders and bakers, while offering little to no help nor interest on keeping veteran families in their homes. Try as i have, I have done everything i could to use social media and emails to try and get someone anywhere to listen to our story and help, but time after time its fallen on deaf ears, til now. The last three years has introduced me to other veteran families, many of which either have already lost their homes, or like mine, are trying to do what they can as quickly as they can to keep it. Taking the uniform off doesn't mean they are any less valuable. They answered the call to serve without hesitation because it was their duty. Now with my family, and all of those like mine, facing the growing crisis that we are facing, we are sending out the call for help and hoping that now, this country will answer our call. Our families are more than just account numbers on pieces of paper. For too long this country has crated waves of veterans and failed to protect and provide for them when they come home. It is my hope that sharing our story might help to raise awareness to this growing crisis, to maybe inspire others to not walk away but stand and fight as well. Until we stand up and start fighting back, they'll continue to take and destroy dreams, profiting along the way while we are left to pick up the pieces and try to survive. We are left trying to explain to our children why they dont have a room anymore, and now live in a car. We need change now not later, and it starts by sharing our stories.
Twenty Six Veterans
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Author : Sarah Hunter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Twenty Six Veterans written by Sarah Hunter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
Veteran homelessness in Los Angeles (LA), California, is a pervasive public health problem, with the county having the highest concentration of veterans experiencing homelessness (VEH) in the United States. Despite significant investments and many programs and services available to VEH, eliminating homelessness has proven to be a major public policy challenge. In this report, the authors describe a first-of-its-kind longitudinal study conducted in 2019/2020 that followed 26 VEH in West LA. The information obtained about the veterans' housing, health, and service experiences can be used by policymakers and public health practitioners to identify specific factors that are related to engagement in care and housing attainment and stability. The COVID-19 pandemic began during the study, and the research team had to adapt to remote data collection protocols to complete the follow-up data collection. As a result, important lessons about the feasibility of remote data collection with VEH both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic were learned. The authors make a number of recommendations, including allocating more resources to fully meet the needs of VEH in LA (including more-robust outreach services, substance use disorder treatment, and other health care treatment), implementing additional temporary and permanent housing solutions, and building in accountability measures to make progress toward these goals more transparent to a larger audience. This report should be of interest to entities serving populations that experience homelessness, including governments, health care organizations, practitioners, advocacy groups, researchers, and others interested in addressing the homelessness crisis.
Heading Home
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Author : Marsha A. Martin
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 1999-02
Heading Home written by Marsha A. Martin and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-02 with categories.
About one-third of all homeless American adults are vets, a serious problem which is a national disgrace. Homeless vets are mostly male, single; come from poor, disadvantaged communities; 40% suffer from mental illness and slightly more than half suffer from alcohol &/or other drug abuse problems. The Veterans Administration held a national summit in Feb. 1994 to discuss homelessness among vets. This report briefly summarizes what was learned from the summit, including priorities for action, consensus principles upon which to base intervention strategies, and suggested guidelines for implementation of summit recommendations.
Veterans And Homelessness
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Author : Libby Perl
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-12-31
Veterans And Homelessness written by Libby Perl and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-31 with Homeless veterans categories.
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Veterans And Homelessness
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Author : Congressional Research Congressional Research Service
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-11-13
Veterans And Homelessness written by Congressional Research Congressional Research Service and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-13 with categories.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan brought renewed attention to the needs of veterans, including the needs of homeless veterans. Researchers have found both male and female veterans to be overrepresented in the homeless population, and, as the number of veterans increased due to these conflicts, there was concern that the number of homeless veterans could rise commensurately. The 2007-2009 recession and the subsequent slow economic recovery also raised concerns that homelessness could increase among all groups, including veterans. Congress has created numerous programs that serve homeless veterans specifically, almost all of which are funded through the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). These programs provide health care and rehabilitation services for homeless veterans (the Health Care for Homeless Veterans and Domiciliary Care for Homeless Veterans programs), employment assistance (Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program-a Department of Labor program-and Compensated Work Therapy program), and transitional housing (Grant and Per Diem program) as well as supportive services (the Supportive Services for Veteran Families program). The VA also works with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide permanent supportive housing to homeless veterans through the HUD-VA Supported Housing Program (HUD-VASH). In the HUD-VASH program, HUD funds rental assistance through Section 8 vouchers while the VA provides supportive services. In addition, the VA and HUD have collaborated on a homelessness prevention demonstration program. Several issues regarding veterans and homelessness have become prominent, in part because of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. One issue is ending homelessness among veterans. In November 2009, the VA announced a plan to end homelessness within five years. Both the VA and HUD have taken steps to increase housing and services for homeless veterans. Funding for VA programs has increased in recent years (see Table 4), Congress has appropriated funds to increase available units of permanent supportive housing through the HUD-VASH program (see Table 5), and the number of veterans served in many programs has increased (see Table 6). Congress has appropriated a total of $500 million to support initial funding of HUD-VASH vouchers in each year from FY2008 through FY2014, enough to fund approximately 68,000 vouchers. Since the VA announced its plan, the HUD and VA point-in-time estimates of the number of veterans experiencing homelessness has fallen from 74,050 in 2009 to 49,933 in 2014 (see Table 1). Another issue is the concern that veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who are at risk of homelessness may not receive the services they need. In addition, concerns have arisen about the needs of female veterans, whose numbers are increasing. Women veterans face challenges that could contribute to their risks of homelessness. They are more likely to have experienced sexual trauma than women in the general population and are more likely than male veterans to be single parents. Historically, few homeless programs for veterans have had the facilities to provide separate accommodations for women and women with children. In recent years, Congress and the VA have made changes to some programs in an attempt to address the needs of female veterans, including funding set asides and efforts to expand services.
Permanent Supportive Housing
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Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2018-07-11
Permanent Supportive Housing written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-11 with Social Science categories.
Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over the years, concomitant with fluctuations in the economy and changes in the demographics of and attitudes toward poor and disenfranchised citizens. In recent decades, federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the philanthropic community have worked hard to develop and implement programs to solve the challenges of homelessness, and progress has been made. However, much more remains to be done. Importantly, the results of various efforts, and especially the efforts to reduce homelessness among veterans in recent years, have shown that the problem of homelessness can be successfully addressed. Although a number of programs have been developed to meet the needs of persons experiencing homelessness, this report focuses on one particular type of intervention: permanent supportive housing (PSH). Permanent Supportive Housing focuses on the impact of PSH on health care outcomes and its cost-effectiveness. The report also addresses policy and program barriers that affect the ability to bring the PSH and other housing models to scale to address housing and health care needs.