Helping Veterans
Our Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program (HVRP) helps homeless vets find meaningful employment and stable housing so that they can be productive members of the community. HVRP is funded by the federal Department of Labor. The program assists homeless vets with resources, digital literacy, financial literacy, vocational training and job opportunities. HVRP serving Macomb and Wayne (Detroit ) counties.
Services
HVRP offers a broad range of training and employment services. They include:
- Skills assessment
- Classroom training
- Job search and placement
- Job training
- Help with transportation, clothing, work equipment needs, and other basic needs
- Placement follow-up services
- Vocational counseling
We work with numerous partners in the community to deliver these services. These partners include businesses, training programs, educational institutions, human service organizations, veterans-serving agencies, government, and others. In addition to helping individuals gain employment, our HVRP program connects them to the educational, counseling and support services they may need.
Requirements
To help homeless veterans take advantage and make the most of our program, our HVRP model includes outreach, pre-enrollment assessment, job training, job development, obtaining employer commitments to hire, and post-placement follow-up service.
To be eligible for HVRP services, an individual must be homeless and a veteran.
- A “homeless” individual is someone who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. This term includes persons whose primary nighttime residence is either a supervised public or private shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations; an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or a private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.
- A “veteran” is a person who served in the active U.S. military, naval or air service, and who was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable.
veterans served in 2023-2024
HVRP serve as a connection with SSVF / MiHealth service programs
veterans find and retained stable housing in Fiscal Year 2024
veterans placed in employment