Ending Veteran Homelessness

Veterans

Letter from Veteran Services Leadership On behalf of Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF), we appreciate your willingness to continue the journey toward ending Veteran homelessness in our community. Over the past year, our SSVF team served more than 200...

At end of Veteran family’s long journey, home awaits

Supportive Housing, Veterans

For Robert and Julie Palmer’s four school-aged children, it probably seemed like one long, fun-filled summer road trip. It even had a happy ending, when St. Vincent de Paul’s Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program helped the family settle into their...

SSVF aids Veteran who lost ‘everything’ in 2020 fire

Supportive Housing, Veterans

Something truly disastrous must happen before some Veterans will seek help from programs such as Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF). Take Trudy “Jess” Boykin. Now a firefighter, this U.S. Army Veteran served from 2007 to 2009 in Iraq, where she suffered...

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...