Post Tag: "homeless veterans"

New Housing for Veterans

On February 7th, 2012 by Rob Kane

San Francisco Chronicle – For Mercedes Marquez, assistant secretary for the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, this morning’s visit to San Francisco for a look at a veterans’ housing project was a chance to come home. Marquez, who joined Mayor Ed Lee and other local officials on a walk through the remodeled [...]

First Lady Tackling Medical Treatment For Vets

On January 11th, 2012 by Jordan Towers

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mrs. Obama was to announce the commitment from more than 100 medical schools during an appearance Wednesday at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. The schools are agreeing to step up training for medical students in how to treat PTSD and traumatic brain injury, increase research into the conditions and share new [...]

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TOPICS: Afghanistan • Bay Area Veterans • first lady • homeless veteran • homeless veterans • OIF/OEF • Policy • PTSD • Veteran News • Veterans • Vets • Women in combat • Women Veterans

Housing Program Graduation

On November 23rd, 2011 by Rob Kane

Congratulations to the recent graduates of our Housing Program Twenty five formerly homeless veterans graduated last week (November 17, 2011) from Swords to Plowshares’ unique transitional housing and rehabilitation program. The graduates of the program, all formerly homeless or chronically homeless veterans, spent an average of sixteen months overcoming addictions, mental health issues such [...]

Critics: Fort Carson Policy Targeted Troubled, Wounded Soldiers

On November 17th, 2011 by Jordan Towers

FORT CARSON, Colo. — Army Cpl. Joshua Smith saw the orange glow against the South Carolina night sky long before he reached his sister’s apartment complex. The fire in the back buildings was intense. People stood in shock, watching the blaze. Smith leapt from his rental car and vaulted a five-foot brick wall, yelling [...]

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TOPICS: Afghanistan • homeless veteran • homeless veterans • housing for veterans • Iraq • iraq veteran • OIF/OEF • PTSD • Suicide • VA claims • Veteran News • Veterans • Women Veterans

Vouchers for homeless veterans face budget ax

On April 5th, 2011 by Colleen Corliss

Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer Sunday, April 3, 2011 The window curtain is a bedsheet. The kitchen is a tiny sink. It takes just five paces to cross the entire length of the day-to-day residential hotel room. Jerry Wiseman, 42, doesn’t mind these things that much. A Marine sergeant in the 1991 [...]

Veteran Homelessness Report

On March 14th, 2011 by Leon Winston

On February 14, 2011, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Department of Veterans Affairs/The National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans released VETERAN HOMELESSNESS: A Supplemental Report to the 2009 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress. For the first time, we now have baseline data on veteran homelessness in the U.S. As the [...]

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TOPICS: homeless veterans • HUD • Veteran Policy • Women Veterans