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
REST Program
Residential, Employment and Substance Abuse Treatment Program (REST): 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
Supportive Housing: 13 scattered site supportive housing units with 75 beds, an apartment complex with 13 beds and a 40-bed apartment complex opening summer, 2008, for a total of 128 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.
Special Needs
Special Needs/Vet to Vet Program
Outreach
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.
Veterans Service Center
