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Orlando Health Sebastian River Hospital assembles 500 care kits to support local homeless veterans
As part of its Day of Giving on Tuesday, the team at Orlando Health Sebastian River Hospital on the Treasure Coast assembled 500 kits with food and other essentials to support veterans experiencing homelessness.
Volunteers also wrote notes of encouragement to go along with each kit. The bags will be sent to the National Homeless Veterans Support Group.
The mission is personal for hospital president Dan Bowen, who is an Air Force veteran.
"Outreach is important for our veterans, very prideful like we all are. If we go out personally and give them the support, hopefully they'll take the next step and seek out the help they need," Bowen said.
What is HUD-VASH, and How Does it Help Homeless Veterans?
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Home » VA Homeless Programs » What is HUD-VASH, and How Does it Help Homeless Veterans?
By Meghan Deal, National Director for HUD-VASH, VHA Homeless Programs Office
For many Veterans navigating the complexities of homelessness, the biggest hurdle isn’t just finding housing—it’s having the stability to keep it. The Housing and Urban Development-VA Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program, a collaborative initiative between the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and VA, was created to address both challenges.
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VA staffing shortages led to failure to refer veterans to supportive housing, investigators find
Department of Veteran Affairs case managers failed to refer veterans experiencing homelessness to the VA’s supportive housing program, due to understaffing, high turnover and staff burnout, according to a recent watchdog report.
The Government Accountability Office’s report found that the VA, during a time period covering both the first Trump administration and the Biden administration, suffered from high case manager turnover that left many veterans not properly supported. As a result, just over 174,000 veterans were not referred to a federal voucher program between 2020 to 2024.
The Government Accountability Office’s report, published last week, looked at eight VA sites around the country to see how the Housing & Urban Development-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program is being handled. The VA and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) jointly operate the program. Under it, HUD provides vouchers to veterans experiencing homelessness to get them into homes, while the VA offers case workers to help them connect with that housing and other services. Staff at all eight sites told GAO investigators “there were not enough HUD-VASH case managers to support the vouchers allocated to their communities or expressed concerns about the workload of existing case managers.”
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