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Virginia VA helps homeless program reach Functional Zero

VAntage Point Virginia VA helps homeless program reach “Functional Zero” VA assists local organizations to achieve major milestone The partnership includes Crater Area Coalition on Homelessness, St. Joseph’s Villa and Built For Zero. To be certified as a Functional Zero community, organizations and local governments have created and sustained a support system that ensures fewer Veterans are experiencing homelessness than can be housed in a month. Ending homelessness is possible. To be certified as a Functional Zero community, organizations and local governments in the Crater Region have created and sustained a support system that meets these goals. Great strides

Fremont County Colorado Becomes 12th Community in U S to Achieve Zero Veteran Homelessness - by Brooke Gilmore

Posted by Brooke Gilmore | May 31, 2021 On Thursday, May 27, Governor Polis and the Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) announced that the national initiative known as Built for Zero has certified Fremont County, Colorado as the 12th community in the country to functionally end veteran homelessness. “Ensuring those who have worked in service to this country have access to safe and secure housing is one of the most important things we can do, and I am pleased to see Fremont [County] leading the way in what we hope will become the new standard in our state,” said Governor Jared Polis. “We owe it to our veterans to ensure they too can build back stronger along with the rest of Colorado.”

Fremont County Hits Veteran Homelessness Milestone

Government officials and nonprofit workers in Fremont County have been working with Community Solutions since October 2019 as part of the Built for Zero project, a framework created by Community Solutions to end homelessness across the country. Cañon City is located about an hour southwest of Colorado Springs and is home to several prisons, including the Colorado State Penitentiary, which provide jobs for many of the area s residents. Loaves and Fishes Ministries runs the county s only emergency homeless shelter, in Canon City, which has seventeen beds and is typically full every night. We applied just because we knew that we wanted to end homelessness and we knew that what we were doing wasn’t making the greatest impact. We needed help. We needed technical assistance. That’s what drove us to apply for it, says DeeDee Clement, executive director of Loaves and Fishes, which has a twenty-person staff.

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