4.6 Jeff Yungman

Service Priorities For Homeless Veterans- How Does VASH Fit? July 14, 2011

Brief History
Began in 1984
Men’s Shelter and Soup Kitchen at first
Moved to current location in 1987
Piggly Wiggly donated main building
Family Center built in 1991
Supportive Services grew in the 1990’s to focus on ending people’s homelessness, not just feeding and sheltering

Men’s Shelter
70 Emergency Shelter Beds
14 Male Veteran Beds
Family Center
30 Emergency Shelter Beds
10 Female Veteran Beds
Transitional Living Center – TLC
4 Bedrooms
Up to 4 families
Where we are today

Clinical Services
Clinical staff = multidisciplinary team of front-line staff, case-managers, medical staff, psychiatrists and counselors
12 front-line staff
11 counselors, case managers, etc.
3 psychiatrists
Many masters-level students, legal interns and externs, medical and nursing students

Clinical Services
Legal
Since 2006, has provided free civil legal services to all guests
Focus on disability claims, VA benefits, family law, landlord tenant issues, birth certificates and identification
Partnership between Legal Aid, Chas. School of Law, Charleston Co. Bar

Clinical Services
Veterans Services
14 Male Veteran Beds
10 Female Veteran Beds
Returned over 55% to self-sufficiency, higher than regional average

Crisis Ministries/VA Partnership
HUD/VASH
Veterans’ Treatment Court
Child Support Initiative

Partnership Between Crisis Ministries and Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center
Two VA Programs
-HCHV Clinic
-Grant per diem program
-five staff
-HUD/VASH
-Housing resource
-three staff (one vacancy)

HUD/VASH Case Managers obtain clients:
-Housing Resource Walk-In clinic held three
times weekly
-referrals from HCHV program
-referrals from Crisis Ministries
-other referral sources within VA hospital and
walk-ins

Crisis Ministries Case Managers
- Take referrals for Crisis Ministries Veterans
Transitional Dorm
-Coordinate referrals for Up & Out funds or
HPRP funds
-Homeless Justice Project accepts referrals from
HUD/VASH case managers (referred clients may or
may not be eligible for HUD/VASH program)

Keys to Positive Outcomes and Stability
-intensive case management
-home visits/office visits
-number of visits individualized to client
-monthly life skills groups
-Charleston Housing Authority keeps HUD/VASH
clients on rolls for six months post discharge from
program

What Would Make HUD/VASH More Successful
-clients obtain VA benefits quicker
-more HUD vouchers available for clients
-more affordable housing
-more employment opportunities for veterans

ABA Commission on Homeless and Poverty Initiative
Veteran’s Treatment Court
- partnership between Crisis Ministries, VA
Justice Outreach Coordinator, Probate Court,
Solicitor’s Office, and Public Defender’s
Office

ABA Commission on Homeless and Poverty Initiative
Veteran’s Child Support Clinic
Project to address unresolved child support issues
Nine Pilot sites: Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago,
Los Angeles, Minneapolis, San Diego, Seattle, and
Washington DC

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