Description

VA-funded and operated outreach centers that provide outreach and referrals for Veterans who are homeless or at risk of being homeless and enhance community partnerships.

Provides time-limited transitional housing with supported employment services to homeless Veterans with mental health and substance use disorders, co-occurring medical concerns, and psychosocial needs including homelessness and unemployment. CWT/TR programs provide homeless Veterans with rehabilitation services focused on transitioning to permanent housing, employment and continued engagement in recovery services.

Povides time-limited residential treatment to homeless Veterans with mental health and substance use disorders, co-occurring medical concerns, and psychosocial needs including homelessness and unemployment. The DCHV program provides homeless Veterans access to medical, mental health, and substance use disorder treatment in addition to psychosocial and vocational rehabilitation treatment programs.

Provides outreach services, HCHV programs provide care, treatment, and rehabilitative services, including case management and therapeutic transitional housing assistance by contracting with community providers.

Provides pre-release outreach, assessment, linkage, and brief post-release case management services for incarcerated Veterans released from state and Federal prisons. The goal of the HCRV program is to promote successful community integration of Veterans leaving prison by engaging them upon release in appropriate treatment and rehabilitation programs.

Provides a coordinated “medical home” specifically tailored to the needs of homeless Veterans. Veterans assigned to an H-PACT receive care from a dedicated team that includes a primary care provider, nurse, social worker, homeless program staff members, mental health provider and others. This team provides coordinated clinical care, including for underlying unmet care needs, case management, housing and social services assistance during the high-risk transition periods while homeless, obtaining permanent housing and for those Veterans at imminent risk of losing housing.

​Assists public or non-profit private organizations in establishing and operating service-rich transitional programs for homeless Veterans by awarding capital grants and operational funding and monitoring those services provided.

helps increase the accessibility of quality dental care to homeless and certain other Veteran patients enrolled in VA-sponsored and VA partnership homeless rehabilitation programs throughout the U.S.

A primary goal of HVCES is to ensure that a range of employment-related services are accessible by Veterans who are unemployed, underemployed, or at risk of becoming unemployed in order to mitigate factors related to a current episode of homelessness and/or to prevent a future episode of homelessness.

A low-barrier, supportive housing model that emphasizes permanent supportive housing to end homelessness. This approach provides individuals who are experiencing homelessness with permanent housing as quickly as possible and supportive services as needed. Housing First focuses particular attention on those who have experienced prolonged periods of homelessness and disabling conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, recurrent major depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and addictive disorders. The Housing First approach provides housing without prerequisites for abstinence, psychiatric stability, or completion of treatment programs.

Provides supportive services to very low-income Veteran families in or transitioning to permanent housing. SSVF is designed to rapidly re-house homeless Veteran families and prevent homelessness for those at imminent risk due to a housing crisis.

Designed to avoid the unnecessary criminalization of mental illness and extended incarceration among Veterans by ensuring that eligible justice-involved Veterans have timely access to VHA services as clinically indicated. VJO Specialists are responsible for direct outreach, assessment, and case management for justice-involved Veterans in local courts and jails, and liaison with local justice system partners.