Combat to Community: Needs & Resources for Post-911 Veterans and their Families
It took an average of 9 years post deployment for Vietnam veterans to fall into homelessness. Today, Swords to Plowshares and our homeless veteran service colleagues throughout the nation are seeing an alarming influx of homeless OIF/OEF veterans, sometimes just months after separating from the military. We prepared the following paper for the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans to help decipher why this new generation are becoming homeless so quickly in the hope that, by understanding the issues, we may prevent or at least mitigate the kind of long suffering our older clients have endured. The paper looks at the conditions of deployment, economic and social challenges, and mental health, economic and social issues impacting all of our new veterans. It is up to us, as providers, as neighbors, and as citizens to prevent homelessness and truly support our military and veterans with the services and support they have earned.
The presentation is intended to be an accompaniment to be training performed by the Iraq Veteran Project staff and will be updated regularly. For more information, contact IVP Policy Associate Mai-Ling Garcia 415-252-2787 ext. 350, or mgarcia@stp-sf.org.
Combat to Community: Needs & Resources for Post-911 Veterans and their Families by Sword to Plowshares is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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