There are many problems our nations veterans face as a result of serving our country that we must be prepared to treat when they return home. But homelessness should not be one of them; it is something that should never happen in the first place. This Veterans Day, 50,000 veterans will sleep in shelters or on our streets. That number is down 23 percent between 2009 and 2013, thanks in part to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) investment in additional mental health counseling and subsidies for permanent housing from the VA and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. But to get this number to zero, we have to stop thinking about homelessness as something we treat and start approaching it as something we can prevent. huff.to/1xujPAC
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:51:01 +0000