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The Junior Bills visited the local US VETS facility on May 5 to lend a helping hand as the final Fathers’ Club Service Project of the 2011-12 school year.
It’s not a hand out — it’s a hand up. More than 150 volunteers joined together Wednesday to renovate a multi-unit complex for veterans.
This year the Awareness Film Festival, created by Los Angeles-based nonprofit Heal One World, is focusing on veteran’s issues. The opening night film, “Hell and Back Again”, is an award-winning [...]
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Veteran James Brown relaxes in his apartment, which he recently moved into after spending decades on the streets.
Last year, the [...]
Steve Peck, U.S.VETS President and CEO, was recently invited to join Assemblyman Paul Cook (R-Yucca Valley), Steve Mackey, President of the Vietnam Veterans of America, California State Counsel, and California Veterans Affairs Secretary Peter Gravett at the Third Annual “Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day” Ceremony in Washington D.C.
Every year 300,000 service members on average leave the military. With the Army and Marine Corps projected to cut nearly 100,000 troops by 2017, potentially there’ll be 500,000 new veterans who will be rejoining civilian society each year.
As Joe Gatens, outreach coordinator for U.S. VETS, visited with homeless veterans at the Salvation Army in Prescott during breakfast on a recent Tuesday, he let them choose from soap, toothpaste, and deodorant, and then reminded them that U.S. VETS is ready to help them when they’re ready.
Right now 47 military veterans are off the streets and living in permanent housing at U.S. Vets in Kalaeloa through the Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Program, also known as VASH.
Spending a few years in the military can make a person accustomed to a highly structured lifestyle in which others make decisions, while food, clothing and shelter are provided by the organization. Stepping out of that situation and back into the far less disciplined life of a civilian is a stressful undertaking for many veterans, and it can sometimes cause them to make foolish choices. A program called Outside the Wire is aimed at helping veterans struggling with the transition to civilian life.
Homeless male veterans are often plagued by a sense of hopelessness and a feeling that the country they defended has now abandoned them. One organization that aims to change that scenario is the U.S. Veterans Initiative (U.S. Vets), which currently manages 11 veterans-assistance centers throughout the United States.
According to the most recent U.S. Veterans Administration (V.A.) statistics, on any given night in 2009, more than 75,000 U.S. veterans were homeless. In that same year, more than 136,000 veterans experienced homelessness at least temporarily.
Military veterans dealing with joblessness, hunger, substance abuse and even homelessness have a place to which they can turn in Long Beach.
Military veterans dealing with joblessness, hunger, substance abuse and even homelessness have a place to which they can turn in Long Beach.
Don’t miss this great outdoor auto show benefiting the U.S.VETS- Houston! There will be hundreds of foreign, domestic, classics, hot rods, trucks, bikes and more on display. There will also be a construction zone for kids, concessions and entertainment for all.
Interested in running? Go to www.lamarathon.com and click register.
Interested in Fundraising? Go to www.crowdrise.com/TeamUSVets and click donate or join the team.
U.S.VETS is proud to [...]
From NBA.com
On Friday morning in Inglewood, Lakers head coach Mike Brown led several members of the Lakers staff in saying thank you to hundreds of veterans assembled at the [...]
From NPR’s “Talk of the Nation”
U.S.VETS President Steve Peck recently spoke with NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” host Neal Conan about the plan to end veteran homelessness by [...]
U.S.VETS-Prescott Site Director, Barbara Mikkelsen was honored by Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) for her tireless work on behalf of veterans.
U.S.VETS and The Home Depot® Foundation are partnering to expand housing for homeless and low-income veterans in the District of Columbia and St. Louis, Missouri as apart of the Celebration of Service Initiative.
