The Veterans Transition Center ( VTC ) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) rehabilitation center and shelter for veterans , founded in 1998 in Monterey County, California . The VTC is located at the site of the former Fort Ord near Marina, California . While the program is funded partly by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and United States Department of Veterans Affairs , it largely relies on donations from the public. The VTC seeks a holistic approach to helping homeless veterans that includes community service, life skills classes, sobriety requirements, counseling, and transitional housing. According to the U.S. Army Monterey Presidio Public Affairs bureau:
6-548: In general, the mission of the Veterans Transition Center is to provide services for Monterey County's homeless veterans and their families ... by providing veterans with transitional housing , emergency services and case-management programs, veterans will once again become employable and productive members of the community. Currently, the center is looking forward to adding a vocational rehabilitation program and more housing units. The vocational rehabilitation program
12-446: A non-profit thrift store and reception center for arriving veterans. Transitional housing Transitional housing is temporary housing for certain segments of the homeless population, including working homeless people who are earning too little money to afford long-term housing. Transitional housing is set up to transition residents into permanent, affordable housing . It is not in an emergency homeless shelter , but usually
18-484: A room or apartment in a residence with support services. The transitional time can be short, for example one or two years, and in that time the person must file for and get permanent housing and usually some gainful employment or income, even if Social Security or assistance. The cost of transitional housing is the same or less expensive than emergency shelters. But, due to the on site services, transitional tends to be more expensive than permanent supportive housing . In
24-510: Is to include a non-profit store with the express purpose of hiring the most veterans possible, while the additional housing units will increase the center's capacity for veterans to rehabilitate. Since its inception, the VTC has served 4,155 single veterans and 351 veterans with families. According to the center: An estimated 80% of veterans who graduated from the VTC program transitioned into permanent housing for at least one year while 92% of who were in
30-779: The USA, federal funding for transitional housing programs was originally allocated in the McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1986. In 2022, the Transitional Housing Program, awarded 72 recipients, spending over $ 35.6 million in the program. In Hong Kong, as part of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong ’s policy address in 2018, a Task Force on Transitional Housing was set up under the then Transport and Housing Bureau to actively assist and facilitate various short-term initiatives proposed and implemented by
36-513: The program for 1 year maintained sobriety. At the time of graduation, 87% of veterans had $ 700 or more in savings and 75% were employed with a mean wage greater than $ 9.00 per hour. Among families, 100% of school aged children attended school, 80% of children pursued an after-school hobby, and 100% of all veterans with families enrolled in healthy families insurance. Starting in June 2011, work has begun on two previously abandoned buildings that are to become
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