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Orlando Non-Profit Gets VA Grant to Help Homeless Vets


July 28, 2011 | WMFE - Florida's homeless military veterans are getting some help from the federal government. A Central Florida non-profit recently counted more than a thousand homeless vets in the Orlando area. Now that same group is getting funding to help deal with the problem.

 

The US Department of Veterans Affairs is awarding $5.5 million dollars in grants to help homeless Florida veterans.
About a million of that is going to the Homeless Services Network of Central Florida.

In a recent, one night head count, the group found 1125 homeless veterans in Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties.

VA Secretary Eric Shinseki says the grants are intended to help vets who are already homeless and to offer prevention services to those in danger of becoming homeless.

The VA awarded a total of $60 million dollars to 85 homeless service agencies around the country.


 

 

 

 

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