SAC Foundation is making an impact! A few months ago, a new partnership began with Victory Veterans in Omaha. Victory Veterans provides transitional apartment housing to Omaha’s homeless veterans. They believe no one who has served our nation as a veteran should ever be living on the street. Residents consist of men and women, of varying ages, that have served in different conflicts and wars and are now dealing with the aftermath of their service to our country without a home or family to help them.
One of the ways SAC Foundation has been able to offer help is through the creation of a unique, 6-part series of financial education classes. These classes began now in June and will continue through the summer. You can see a photo below from our first session. In the future, we hope to offer other types of assistance to Victory Veterans through donations and volunteer work. We’ll keep you updated with our progress.
Victory Apartments provides affordable housing to Veterans eligible for VA health care services. Veterans can rent the apartments through the HUD-VA Supportive Housing program, which was designed to move Veterans and their families out of homelessness and into permanent housing.
Twomey said the apartments help area Veterans overcome one of the major causes of homelessness–affordable housing – and they are adjacent to VA services.
“The Veterans who will be housed in Victory Apartments, receiving services through the VA center, often have greater barriers to accessing services that include transportation, affordable housing and the sense of getting lost in the bigger VA system,” Twomey said. “Colocating services in the community will hopefully reduce these barriers.”
The apartment complex features 65 one-bedroom units, 25 studios, a 7,000-square foot gymnasium, fitness facility and a resident community room.
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