Gov. Patrick Announces Federal Funding to End Veteran Homelessness

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Release from Lt. Gov. Murray's Office

Lieutenant Governor Timothy Murray today announced the awarding of $1.5 million by the Obama Administration to provide street level outreach, peer support services and case management to chronically homeless veterans in Massachusetts. Joined by Massachusetts Department of Veterans’ Services Secretary Coleman Nee, officials from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Massachusetts Interagency Council on Housing and Homelessness (ICHH) and Veteran service providers at a forum to address housing for homeless veterans in Western Massachusetts, Lieutenant Governor Murray outlined the announced funding as part of a new contract from the VA New England Health Care System. The Massachusetts Department of Veterans’ Services (DVS) will use this funding to apply the ‘Statewide Housing Advocacy for Reintegration and Prevention’ (SHARP) model to the Housing & Urban Development – VA Supported Housing (HUD-VASH) program.
http://weymouth.patch.com/articles/gov-patrick-announces-federal-funding-to-end-veteran-homelessness

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1. Since the National Veterans Job Bill was stopped by Senate Republican

Governors of every state should get their State VA to look into all kinds of services for Veterans.