VA Announces $36 Million in Grants for Homeless Programs
September 23, 2008
“These grants provide a helping hand to veterans who have served our nation in uniform,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James B. Peake. "Our partnerships with community-based organizations provide safe, temporary housing while these veterans return to productive lives.”
VA has identified public and community non-profit groups eligible to receive payments for housing and supportive services to homeless veterans, including 49 grants for vans that will transport homeless veterans to health care and training programs.
The grants are part of VA’s continuing efforts to reduce homelessness among veterans. VA has the largest integrated network of homeless assistance programs in the country. In many cities and rural areas, VA social workers and other clinicians working with community and faith-based partners conduct extensive outreach programs, clinical assessments, medical treatments, alcohol and drug abuse counseling and employment assistance.
VA’s Grant and Per Diem program helped reduce the number of veterans who are homeless on a typical night last year by 21 percent to about 154,000 veterans. VA also provides health care to about 100,000 homeless veterans, compensation and assistance in obtaining foreclosed homes and excess federal property, including clothes, footwear, blankets and other items.
More information about VA’s homeless programs is available on the Internet at http://www.va.gov/homeless.
Grant recipients are listed below.
Recipients of VA Grants for Homeless Veterans
State | City | Recipients | Amount | Program |
Volunteers of | $514,475 | 50 beds | ||
Comin’ Home | $18,686 | One van | ||
| Old | $270,000 | 12 beds | |
$19,500 | One van | |||
| Desert | Help for Future Leaders | $8,872 | One van |
| Fairfield-Suison Community Action Council | $332,150 | 12 beds, one van | |
| $338,650 | 20 beds, one van | ||
| Dignity’s Alcove | $377,793 | Renovation, van 20 beds | |
| New Directions | $61,425 | Renovation, six beds | |
| Salvation Army, Calif. Corp | $250,250 | Renovation, 20 beds | |
| Volunteers of | $317,450 | 25 beds for frail elderly | |
| San Bernardino | Salvation Army, Calif. Corp | $150,000 | New construct, five beds |
| Salvation Army, Calif. Corp | $150,000 | New construct, four beds | |
Catholic Charities, Diocese of | $384,709 | New construct, 13 beds, one van | ||
Conn. | Non-Profit Development Corp of | $262,925 | Renovation, six beds | |
| Community Renewal Team | $363,590 | Renovation, 12 beds | |
D.C. | All Faith Consortium | $22,425 | One van | |
Volunteers of | $18,252 | One van | ||
| Keystone Halls | $260,650 | 25 beds, one van | |
| Alachua | $1,995,500 | New bldg, 112 beds | |
| Volunteers of | $18,252 | One van | |
| Transition House | $18,850 | One van | |
| Center for Drug Free Living | $997,977 | 32 beds | |
| Volunteers of | $18,252 | One van | |
| Volunteers of | $1,021,900 | New bldg, 52 beds | |
| Volunteers of | $18,252 | One van | |
| $343,499 | Renovation, 16 beds, one van | ||
180 Degrees | $64,665 | Renovation, 9 beds | ||
$283,729 | New bldg, 20 beds, one van | |||
| $546,00 | New bldg, 15 beds | ||
Volunteers of American of | $11.989 | One van | ||
| HealthNet | $14,146 | One van | |
Summerfield | $21,519 | One van | ||
Volunteers of American of | $1,009,069 | New bldg, 56 beds | ||
Mass. | Volunteers of | $63,729 | Renovation, 16 beds | |
| Father Bill’s & MainSpring | $400,00 | New construct, 15 beds | |
| $14,755 | One van | ||
| Leeds, | United Veterans of | $34,798 | One van |
| Volunteers of | $1,107,517 | Renovation, 20 beds | |
| Shrewbury | $1,503,055 | New bldg, 30 beds | |
Volunteers of | $17,875 | One van | ||
TBD | Arundel House of Hope | $341,250 | New bldg, 6 beds, one van | |
| $1,326,468 | New bldg, 40 beds | ||
| Way Station | $1,600,000 | New bldg, 27 beds | |
Salvation Army | $800,000 | New bldg, 38 beds | ||
| Volunteers of | $1,531,734 | New bldg, 60 beds | |
2nd Genesis Group Home & Community Center | $176,459 | Renovation, 30 beds, one van | ||
Volunteers of | $1,320,540 | New bldg, 20 beds, one van | ||
| Crow Agency | Crow Tribe | $765,390 | New bldg, 20 beds, one van |
| $14,745 | One van | ||
$1,891,905 | New bldg, 26 beds | |||
N.H. | Harbor Homes | $26,942 | One van | |
| Harbor Homes | $1,200,000 | New construct, 40 beds | |
| Harbor Homes | $26,942 | One van | |
N.J. | Community Hope | $21,044 | One van | |
| Volunteers of | $914,550 | Renovation, 28 beds | |
| $926,250 | New bldg, 40 beds | ||
N.M. | Metropolitan Homelessness Project | $32,500 | One van | |
N.Y. | Doe Fund | $23,976 | One van | |
| City of | $1,090,500 | Renovation, 226 beds, one van | |
| $15,264 | One van | ||
N.C. | Caring Services | $19,505 | One van | |
| First at | $21,434 | One van | |
$1,973 | Renovation, 3 beds | |||
| Family and Community Services | $25,917 | One van | |
Coatesville | Fresh Start Foundation | $21,840 | One van | |
| Shalom House | $194,987 | New bldg, eight beds | |
Hormingas | Veteran | $20,625 | One van | |
R.I. | Operation Stand Down, | $300,300 | New bldg, six beds, one van | |
S.C. | Alcolu | Have Faith Community Development | $282,637 | New construct, 14 beds, one van |
| Crisis Ministries | $166,910 | Renovation, 10 beds | |
| Providence Home | $78,033 | New construct, 11 beds | |
| $542,100 | Renovation, 14 beds, one van | ||
| $422,500 | New bldg, 20 beds | ||
$19,937 | Renovation, six beds | |||
| Campus for Human Development | $487,460 | New bldg, 25 beds | |
| Next Stage | $332,800 | Renovation, 25 beds | |
Mental Health Mental Retardation of | $600,000 | Renovation, 30 beds | ||
Homeless Veterans Fellowship | $113,607 | New bldg, eight beds | ||
Malachi House International | $201,500 | New bldg, 10 beds | ||
Committee on Temporary Shelter | $1,240,000 | New bldg, 20 beds | ||
| Veterans’ Place | 771,174 | Renovation, 26 beds, one van | |
| $442,000 | New bldg, 10 beds, one van | ||
Wash. | $2,000,000 | New bldg, 36 beds | ||
| Volunteers of | $24,700 | Renovation, six beds | |
Wisc. | Porchlight | $240,630 | Renovation, 22 beds | |
| Tomah | Veterans Assistance Foundation | $35,100 | Two vans |
Wy. | Volunteers of | $636,637 | New bldg, 10 beds, one van | |
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