NATIONAL VETERANS HOMELESS SUPPORT INC
Rescuing Veterans Lost in America
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
According to Bi-Annual Department of Housing and Urban Development Point in Time Counts, there are approximately 300 homeless veterans and their dependents living in Brevard County, Florida. Additionally according to the US Census Bureau, 4,400 veterans in Brevard County earn poverty level income, making them particularly vulnerable to becoming homeless. We aim to get homeless veterans off of the streets and into homes, and keep the at-risk veterans in their homes.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Search and Rescue
Search and Rescue is a two pronged outreach program: Street Outreach for unsheltered homeless veterans and their dependents, referral driven outreach for at-risk of losing their home veterans and their families. For unsheltered clients our volunteers go out in to the streets and forests of our community to locate them, provide basic needs (food, outdoor gear, etc…) to build rapport and help them address the immediate needs of homelessness, and then connect them with the VA, housing agencies, and benefits application specialists in order to get them housed rapidly and self-sustaining. For at-risk clients we review their financial situation, try to source funding to help them from agencies with grant funding, however if the time to get the grant funding exceeds the time they need to stay in the home, we provide the financial assistance. In 2022, 398 homeless and at-risk of being homeless veterans and their dependents were provided services through this program.
Supportive Housing
Supportive services housing program that provides transitional housing to formerly homeless veterans and their dependents with the primary purpose being helping the clients achieve self-sufficiency and sustainability. The program currently has a maximum capacity of 17 beds located in 4 properties throughout Brevard County. In 2022, 27 clients were provided assistance through the program.
Where we work
Affiliations & memberships
United Way of Brevard Partner Agency 2011
Brevard Homeless Coalition Member Agency 2010
External reviews
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The ultimate goal of NVHS is to eliminate homelessness among veterans in Central Florida. We plan to accomplish this by reconnecting homeless veterans to their community through adaptive street-level outreach and comprehensive collaboration.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Our primary purpose is to assist homeless veterans get into housing and keep housed at-risk veterans in their houses so they do not become homeless. To do this we conduct street level outreach in our community to find the homeless, provide them with basic needs to build rapport and address their most immediate issues (i.e survival), and then work with them to get them into housing and into the VA healthcare system to improve their health and often, secure financial benefits for disabilities they have which helps support them for the rest of their lives. Additionally we help connect at-risk veterans to resources in our community that have federal grant funding to pay for housing and utility payments, however, when grant payment timing and screening processes will result in a client not receiving the funding in time to save their homes, we intervene directly and pay from our general donations.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
NVHS's entire methodology stems from the idea of comprehensive collaboration with all available community partners. There are outstanding agencies (public, private, nonprofit) that offer valuable services that could be beneficial to our clients, and we make it our goal to connect our clients to everyone that can help them get off the streets. We have dozens of volunteers that do the "heavy lifting", providing constant, consistent, and trustworthy street level outreach so that our veterans are located and assisted by knowledgeable and compassionate people. Everyone in NVHS believes in our mission, and is dedicated to changing peoples lives, it is in our DNA.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Reduced homeless veteran population in Brevard County from 1,800 in 2008 to less than 300 in 2019, over 90% reduction in the population since the program was founded.
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Operations
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NATIONAL VETERANS HOMELESS SUPPORT INC
Board of directorsas of 02/20/2024
Mr. George Taylor Jr
Dana Blickley
Steve Burdett
Elizabeth Harris
Catherine McMullin
Norman Moody
Thomas Schmutz
Lisa Nash
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Board orientation and education
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CEO oversight
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Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
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Equity strategies
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- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.