SSVF Cultivates A Veteran Family

SSVF Cultivates A Veteran Family

Staff Stories, Veterans

Veteran Friends Take Long Route to Love, Family NOTE: SSVF, or Supportive Services for Veteran Families, is a federally funded program, administered by St. Vincent de Paul and dedicated to getting veterans and veteran families into housing. SSVF then provides the...

VHP Couple Ready to Move Out, On

Staff Stories, Veterans

This Veteran Family is Armed with Savings, Budget Savvy, and a Great Rental History. To fully appreciate the difference St. Vincent de Paul’s veteran programs can make, you just have to live for a few months in a tent in somebody’s driveway, the comforts of home...

VHP’s Wrap-Around Services Enhance Family Safety

Veterans

St. Vincent de Paul casts a wide net of services to rein in and house veterans and their families. Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) can sustain a family pending better opportunities. That’s how it worked for Arthur, a single father of three who brought...

VHP Works With and For Veterans

Affordable Housing, Veterans

A dozen homes across Eugene are dedicated as housing for veteran families under the umbrella of the Veterans Housing Project. They are the fruits of countless purchases, gifts, and labors invested by businesses, donors, volunteers, and the founding organizations, the...

A Reunion 25 Years in the Making

Veterans

A 60-something veteran of Vietnam, Ken enrolled in St. Vincent de Paul’s Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program (SSVF) during fall, preceding a winter that was expected to be extraordinarily harsh. He had been homeless for the better part of 25 years and was...