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Services Overview
Overview
Each night there are as many as 900 veterans who are homeless in the Indianapolis Metropolitan area and over 4,000 in the entire state. Last year alone, HVAF of Indiana, Inc. provided 22,516 individual services to 3,407 individuals (veterans, family and children).
HVAF specializes in serving homeless veterans so that other service providers in the community can more effectively address issues facing the non-veteran homeless.
Employment Services
Employment Services: HVAF provides employment training, placement and retention monitoring to homeless veterans. HVAF's focus is on serving veterans with extreme barriers to employment such as chronic mental illness and chronic homelessness. Individualized case management is provided, along with job skills training and life skills and money management classes. Safe, supportive housing assistance is also provided.
REST Program
Residential, Employment and Substance Abuse Treatment (REST) Program: A supportive, recovery-dynamics based housing program for homeless veterans whose primary goal is to maintain sobriety while obtaining employment and permanent housing. Veterans receive individual and group counseling, psycho-educational classes and intensive case management.
Supportive Housing
Supportive Housing: HVAF has a total of 150 beds. Veterans engage in individualized case management while working towards increased financial stability, affordable permanent housing and an improved quality of life as they reintegrate into the community.
HVAF provides 22 beds through the Residential, Employment and Substance Abuse Treatment (REST) Program.
HVAF provides 22 beds through the Residential, Employment and Substance Abuse Treatment (REST) Program.
HVAF has 13 scattered site supportive housing units with 75 beds (click on photo below to view additional homes);
an apartment complex with 13 beds, the Carson Apartments;
and a 40-bed apartment complex, the Donald W. Moreau, Sr. Veterans House.
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Special Needs
Special Needs/Vet to Vet Program: Provides intensive case management and housing services to 24 homeless veterans with chronic mental illness diagnoses. Special Needs staff includes two full-time MSW's and two Peer Counselors. Vet to Vet support groups are held every day. In-depth case management is provided, focusing on assisting the 24 veterans in making a positive reintegration into the community while learning to manage their mental health issues.
Outreach
Outreach: Provides outreach services to homeless veterans. Peer Outreach Workers canvass the city streets and shelters for homeless veterans, providing them with food, clothing and personal hygiene items and assisting them in obtaining safe, supportive housing. Outreach Workers are former homeless veterans.
No veteran should ever be homeless!
Veterans Service Center
Raymond E. Childress Veterans Service Center: Provides on-site supportive services to homeless and near homeless veterans.
Services include food, clothing, personal hygiene items, household goods, drop-in shower facilities, transportation, housing and employment assistance and financial benefits counseling.
We believe that no American, especially a veteran, should ever be homeless!
