Homeless Veterans Reintegration Project

HVRP is a proven, successful program that gets homeless veterans off the street and back to being productive members of society. WDVA provides HVRP-Urban services to Veterans in the Puget Sound Region of King, Pierce, Thurston, and Kitsap Counties. HVRP-Rural services are provided to ten counties in Eastern Washington.
The HVRP offers a structured, individually designed case management plan to assist veterans become employable and secure.

Program Services include:

• Immediate needs – food, clothing, transportation, and access to shelter;
• Outreach to homeless veterans providers;
• Employability needs and skills assessment;
• Job readiness services, including transitional housing assistance, basic skills training, therapeutic work, résumé
  development and employment opportunity referrals; and
• 90, 180, and 270-day job retention follow-up.

Eligibility:

To be eligible for participation under HVRP, an individual must be a veteran and homeless as defined:

• The term “veteran” means a person who served in the active US military, naval, or air service and who were discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable.  
  [Reference 38 USC 101 (2)]
• The term “homeless or homeless individual” as defined in the Homeless Comprehensive Act of 2001 (HVCAA, Public Law 107-95)includes persons:
  • Who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence;
  • Whose primary nighttime residence is either a supervised public or private shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations, or a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutional; or
  • Living in a private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.  [Reference 42 USC 11302]

(Inadequate nighttime residence examples include:  sleeping in cars,  under bridges, in tents, etc.  Inadequate nighttime residence does not include living with relatives or friends.)