U.S.VETS Programs & Services
Each of U.S.VETS 11 sites provide assistance to veterans to help with their reintegration and transition to civilian life. While not all sites offer the same programs and services, each is equipped to make sure that veterans find the resources they need.
Programs & Services
Many veterans fall into homelessness due to the shortage of affordable housing. To address this shortfall, we offer transitional and affordable housing that provides stable, sober environment with peer support, medical referrals, therapeutic groups and case management services.
U.S. VETS work re-entry programs are designed to help veterans obtain and maintain employment. The programs address a variety of barriers veterans experience to employment, including lack of job skills, life skills, mental health and substance abuse issues. U.S.VETS has both residential back-to-work programs, and Career Centers that offer employment assistance to all veterans.
About 30% of the veterans we see have some form of mental illness, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The vast majority of these veterans can effectively address these issues through counseling and medication. Our programs offer the stabilization; support and services that help these veterans achieve their highest level of independence.
Women currently represent 14% of the active military and they return to civilian life with specific needs. While all women veterans can receive the same services as men veterans at all sites, our women specific programs are designed to address needs of a women veteran including: military sexual trauma, health issues, and other psychological barriers to reintegration.
As combat veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq conflict return home after service, they are finding difficulty in re-acclimating to civilian life. In order to address the needs of those who have served our country we have designed the Veterans Re-Entry Project (VRP). The VRP program will assist OEF/OIF veterans transition to a self-sufficient lifestyle
Outside the Wire is a comprehensive outreach program designed to address OEF/OIF (Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom) veterans’ unmet need for preventative and early mental health treatment due to service-related psychological injuries including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression as a result of war time experiences.
Twenty percent of the veterans in our programs have minor children. We believe that re-connection with the family is essential to the reintegration process. Our Non-custodial Father program assists these veterans to reconnect with their children, build fatherhood skills, obtain employment so they can meet their child support obligations and become active and engaged fathers to their children.
U.S. VETS addresses the various barriers veterans may experience that prevent them from acquiring employment such as: histories of felonies and incarceration, age, or long periods of unemployment.
Substance abuse is often a coping mechanism for depression, combat trauma, and loneliness. Entering substance abuse treatment will help veterans develop coping mechanisms for these life events. They will learn the skills to remain clean and sober so they can meet the challenges life has to offer, and achieve stability that help them to become self sufficient.
