WARRIORS ONCE AGAIN
A Transitional Residence for Homeless Veterans
Serving Our Vulnerable Veterans with Honor as They Served Us
Serving Our Vulnerable Veterans with Honor as They Served Us
WHAT WE DO
Identify and Evaluate Homeless and Vulnerable Veterans
We identify homeless veterans in the community through communication with other service providers, assessing their risk and recovery factors to determine their suitability to our program. In the event we do not have an available bed at such times, no veteran is left behind, as we work to connect them with alternate resources in collaboration with our partner agencies.
Provide the Veteran a Safe Affirming Place to Live
Veterans accepted into our program, are provided their own well-appointed room, complete with linens and personal hygiene items. They have free access to laundry and kitchen facilities, with food provided where necessary, as well as spacious common areas featuring books, television and available Wi-Fi. These comforts have been thoughtfully prepared to provide a stable platform for success in recovery.
Co-Build a Success Plan with the Veteran Resident
Each veteran resident is fully assessed to identify the specific risk factor they have struggled with in homelessness and targeted case management counseling is provided to address each of those individually, rather than a ‘one size fits all’ approach. Having a voice in their own recovery and a plan with clear, achievable goals, encourages successful outcomes.
Partner with Veteran-centric and Community Service Providers
We partner with other community service providers to provide professional input and application beyond the scope of our function, to ensure each resident’s every issue can be addressed in a practical and successful way.
Transition the Veteran back into the Community No longer at risk
As our veteran residents approach the full achievement of their program goals, we begin to search the community for housing locations and availability, which further lends toward continued success for them beyond our program. We also transition them with the confidence of an ongoing relationship with Warriors Once Again and its case management service, should they experience difficulty.
WE HAVE GROWN!
Warriors Once Again is excited to announce that we have hired our first ever employee to help shoulder the work of recovering homeless veterans. On behalf of our Board of Directors, I am very pleased to introduce Care Coordinator, Alexis Hunter.
Alexis brings a wealth of experience with her that is perfectly suited to the work we do in restoring homeless veterans to wellness. She is the daughter of parents who are both veterans and Alexis herself is also a veteran, having served eight years in the Army National Guard, which included a deployment to Afghanistan.
She also has a master’s degree in Family Therapy, from Spartanburg’s own Converse College, graduating magna cum laude. Alexis received her bachelor’s degree in Child and Family Studies, from Converse College as well.
Our belief that Alexis’ education and professional experience in the family counseling field, combined with her lived military experience as both a child military dependent and veteran herself, create the perfect platform from which she will succeed and achieve, as our Care Coordinator.
You can connect with her, at: alexis@warriorsonceagain.org
Non-profit works to help transition veterans out of homelessness
The Reality
THESE TOTALS ARE BASED ON 2023 HUD POINT IN TIME COUNT STATISTICS
U.S. HOMELESS PERSONS
653,104
U.S. HOMELESS VETERANS
35,574
SOUTH CAROLINA
HOMELESS PERSONS
4,053
HOMELESS VETERANS
393
UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA
HOMELESS PERSONS
1,424
HOMELESS VETERANS
104
WARRIORS ONCE AGAIN
Response to this crisis, since opening in 2021
Homeless Veterans Served
28
Successfully Transitioned
16
Current in Residence
5
