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Featured Program: Homesless Veterans Reintegration Program

Veterans become homeless for many reasons. But almost all veterans, while serving our country, learn significant job skills. Often, homeless veterans just need a place to stay, job counseling, and...

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Supportive Services

Supportive Services

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Featured Program: Helping Victims of Domestic Violence in the Carolinas

Volunteers of America of the Carolinas' Willow Pond transitional housing program in Wilmington, N.C., meets a critical community need by providing 12 apartment style units, along with intensive case...

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Transitional Housing

Transitional Housing

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Featured Program: Paca House in Baltimore

Paca House in Baltimore, operated by Volunteers of America Chesapeake, is a 106 unit single-room occupancy that provides affordable, permanent housing with supportive services to men and women who are...

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Permanent Supportive Housing

For a significant number of homeless Americans with mental or physical impairments, often coupled with drug and/or alcohol use issues, long-term homelessness can only be ended by providing permanent...

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Featured Program: Salt Lake City Homeless Youth Resource Center

Salt Lake City has a large population of runaway and homeless youth, many of who leave rural areas around the mountain west and wind up in the largest big city. These teenagers have often left home due...

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Drop-In Centers

Homeless persons can be reluctant to leave the streets and accept emergency shelter or transitional housing. That's why Volunteers of America operates drop-in centers - places where homeless youth or...

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Featured Program: Outreach in New York's Airports

Many people don't realize that homeless people live in our nation's airports. However, Volunteers of America Greater New York staff understand this problem all too well. That's why they developed an...

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Featured Employee: Hal Miller, A Tireless Advocate for Camden, NJ's Homeless...

As an outreach coordinator with Volunteers of America Delaware Valley, Hal Miller knows almost every homeless person in Camden, NJ. While venturing into the woods and abandoned buildings of Camden, he...

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Outreach

Volunteers of America provides street and mobile outreach services in communities around the country.

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Featured Program: Brandon Center and Family Motel

Volunteers of America and the City of Denver have partnered to provide short term housing assistance to homeless individuals and families. Out of necessity, most homeless persons are forced to devote...

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Featured Program: The Hope House

The day she got out of prison, Lee Ann Winters visited her parole officer - as required. The officer didn't even raise his eyes to look at her as he indifferently worked on her paperwork in his...

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Emergency Shelter

While permanent housing, often coupled with supportive services, is the best way to end homelessness, many individuals and families need short-term stabilization before they can find housing that will...

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