WDVA Programs Overview Paul Cruz Veteran Services
Introduction • Paul Cruz – Vet Services Operations Manager for Financial Transition & Reintegration Services • US Army Retired • With WDVA since September 2015
Homeless Veterans Reintegration Project (HVRP) Program and Description Benefits Eligibility Other Requirements Homeless Veterans Reintegration • Immediate needs – • A Veteran who served • Must be employable, Project (HVRP) Federal Funded grant food, clothing, in the active US military, actively seeking full-time through US Department of Labor transportation, and naval, or air service and work or already working (general fund federal). Resources access to shelter; was discharged or full-time used to set the path for homeless and • Outreach to homeless released under at-risk-of-homeless Veterans to Veterans providers; conditions other than reintegrate into the labor force and • Employability needs dishonorable. obtain a sustainable independent and skills assessment; • Homeless or imminent living. Services include case • Job readiness services, risk of homelessness management, housing placement, and including transitional employment assistance. housing assistance, basic skills training, therapeutic work, résumé development and employment opportunity referrals; and • 90, 180, and 270 -day job retention follow-up.
Incarcerated Veterans Re-Entry Services (IVRS) Program and Description Benefits Eligibility Other Requirements Incarcerated Veterans Re-Entry Services • Transitional housing for • A Veteran who (IVRS) Veterans upon release from served in the active US A joint project with King, Thurston and the jail military, naval, or air Clark Counties to address the needs of • Assessment and referral to service and was Veterans’ incarcerated in County the Puget Sound VA Health discharged or released Correctional Facilities, offering Care System for treatment under conditions other alternatives to jail and referral to including drug, alcohol and than dishonorable housing, employment services, and mental health counseling treatment. Many of the Veterans have • Job referral and placement come to the jail due to un-treated drug services and alcohol issues, poverty, • Assistance with court homelessness, or Post Traumatic Stress appearances and early Disorder. Veterans who are referred to release requirements this program get reduced sentences in exchange for drug and alcohol treatment and mental health services, housing and employment. Services include case management, financial and employment assistance.
Veterans Innovation Program (VIP) Program and Description Benefits Eligibility Other Requirements Veterans Innovation Program (VIP) • Our goal is to make • Received an honorable The Veterans Innovations Program sure the Veteran and discharge was created to provide assistance to their family has access to • Deployed in support of Veterans and their families facing all Veteran’s benefits and Operating Enduring Freedom, financial hardships due to the tools they need to Iraqi Freedom or Noble Eagle deployments in support of the wars in provide for themselves receiving GWOT Expeditionary Iraq and Afghanistan. and their families Medal • Is experiencing financial hardship where income is not sufficient to meet basic needs • Presents a discernable positive outcome • Request is within the grant funding capabilities • Submit complete application packet with required supporting documentation
Transitioning Warrior Program (TWP) Program and Description Benefits Eligibility Other Requirements Transitioning Warrior Program (TWP) • Preparation of VA Claims -expedited VA • Active duty military A program that assists wounded claims adjudication through ready to rate personnel who are in the warriors with their transition to civilian claims maximizing use of the Benefits, process of transitioning to life. Delivery at Discharge program and other Veteran status programs • Veterans, their family • Information and coordination of points of members, surviving spouses contact for Service members relocating to the other 49 states, commonwealths and territories • Activities for Warriors in Transition and Family members through: Veterans Conservation Corps; Self-employment; Development opportunities through the Veterans Business Enterprise Development Alliance; Gap funding (child care, training, special equipment, licenses, and permits); Service member and Family readjustment counseling through the WDVA PTSD program
Supportive Services for Veterans and Families (SSVF) Program and Description Benefits Eligibility Other Requirements Supportive Services for Veterans and • Rental and housing • Serving Veterans Families (SSVF) assistance associated with military Eligible Veterans who are at-risk of • Counseling installations and homelessness will receive • Creation of housing hospitals in Pierce, community-based housing stability and services plans Thurston, Kitsap and King support. Whenever possible, the SSVF County program will connect the Veteran and • Special outreach their families to community-based emphasis on reaching benefits and supports which will Veterans who are supplement their VA benefits. returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as National Guard and reservists who are not part of traditional military communities
WDVA Call Centers Program and Description Benefits Eligibility Other Requirements WDVA Call Centers • WDVA operates call • Veterans, their family WDVA is a full-service state agency centers in Olympia and in members, surviving that assists Veterans, their family King County where we spouses members and survivors. The can evaluate the needs • General public department is an advocate for of the Veteran and refer Veterans and their families, and them to the appropriate aggressively pursues all federal and expert in our Field state benefits and entitlements on Services Network their behalf.
Enhanced Benefits Program Program and Description Benefits Eligibility Other Requirements Enhanced Benefits Program • Veterans and their • Veterans and their A partnership between WDVA and eligible family members dependents who are DSHS which identifies Veterans and will be able to access the receiving state social and their dependents who are receiving maximum federal health services aid state social and health services to benefits for which they access the maximum federal benefits are entitled for which they are eligible. • Veterans are able to access medical benefits through the Veterans Administration at 100 percent federal cost, as opposed to the shared financial responsibility under Medicaid
Military Transition Council (WSMTC Program and Description Benefits Eligibility Other Requirements Military Transition Council (WSMTC) The Military Transition The WSMTC creates enduring Council is organized in partnerships between public and four Track Workgroups private organizations that enables focused on: every service member to successfully 1) Employment; transition into civilian employment 2) Education: and career opportunities 3) Career/Technical Training; and 4) Veteran owned small business and entrepreneurship
Building 9 for Veterans Program and Description Benefits Eligibility Other Requirements Building 9 for Veterans Building 9 for Veterans • Served in any branch of Transitional housing model designed focuses on three goals: the US Armed Forces to provide safe and stable housing for • Received an Honorable both men and woman homeless • Increased residential or General Under Veterans who are committed to stability of participants Honorable Discharge returning to employment and/or • Greater self - • Homeless for one or independent living. determination of more nights participants • Clean and sober for at Service Center onsite providing VA • Increased skill level and least the last 30 days claims assistance to the public. income potential of • Desire to lead a clean participants and sober lifestyle • Desire to make meaningful life changes leading to independent living • Willing to undergo criminal background check
Veterans Homes Program and Description Benefits Eligibility Other Requirements Veterans Homes Our State Veterans Homes are • Served at any time, in WDVA serves veterans in three Medicaid and Medicare any branch of the United Veterans Homes, where veterans are Certified and provide 24-hour States Armed Forces treated with the dignity and respect nursing care, medical care and including the National they deserve in settings that provide pharmacy services. We provide Guard a sense of belonging unique to a number of supportive • Received an honorable veterans. programs and services such as: discharge Physical Therapy; Occupational • Resides in Washington All Washington State Veterans Homes Therapy; Recreational State are Medicare and Medicaid certified Activities; Social Services; • The spouse or widow facilities. Volunteer Programs; Hospice; of an eligible veteran Nutritious Meals; Community • Gold Star Parent Locations: Involvement; Religious Orting Programs; Transportation; Retsil Laundry; Beauty & Barber Spokane Shops; Fishing Pond (Orting); Wala Wala Patriotic Interment Services
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