Community Collaboration

Community Collaboration

Our new partnership with Emerge Family Therapy Center and Teaching Clinic provides counseling for our veteran residents at no cost to them. Emerge has clinics in Spartanburg and Greenville offering top tier training and clinical supervision for therapists and...
Isolation

Isolation

Not long ago, I received a call asking me to go check on a homeless veteran.  The call came from three states away, from someone familiar with the veteran.  I called the cell phone number given and spoke with Ben (not his real name, learning that he had been living in...
Armed Forces Day 2023 Appeal Letter

Armed Forces Day 2023 Appeal Letter

Friends,       An Army veteran living in his old car in a field for two and a half years.  A homeless Air Force veteran in the beginning throes of Parkinson’s Disease.  Another Army veteran, with an unaddressed medical condition so severe, that he was in danger...
PTSD and The Fish Whisperer

PTSD and The Fish Whisperer

Not too long after opening our doors, we took in a veteran who was well into his seventies. He had become vulnerable to homelessness and the availability of a bed with us was preemptive to that. His former military service was one of tension having spent time in the...
Hopes and Dreams

Hopes and Dreams

One of our earliest residents was quite expressive with words and had a seemingly unlimited supply of them on any given day. But, he had one particular statement on repeat and if I heard it once, I heard it a thousand times. That was, “I’ve always wanted...