GWD helping local Veterans!

We offer a hand up, not a hand out.

“Inspired to serve those who served The Veterans’ Place has provided high-quality, supportive housing services to homeless veterans in Northern New England for over a decade. We collaborate closely with the Veterans Administration and all major Vermont housing and social service agencies in an effort to deliver comprehensive, integrated services required to help homeless veterans transition to stable, permanent, and affordable housing as quickly as possible.​At the Veterans’ Place, we offer a wide range of support services to veterans to meet their needs and remove barriers to achieving our goal of “zero functional homelessness” for area veterans.

Over the last decade, our program has on average met or exceeded key Veterans Affairs (VA) benchmarks. An important part of our success has been creating a stable, supportive environment in which formerly homeless veterans can successfully address the many issues that have contributed to past difficulties. Our expertise and extensive experience assisting veterans struggling with substance use issues have been crucial, especially since those issues play a major role in chronic homelessness in Northern New England, where opioid abuse, including heroin addiction, has soared in recent years, in addition to our historically high rates of alcohol use. Washington County, Vermont, where we are located, has the highest rate of homeless Veterans in the state.” – courtesy of The Veterans’ Place, INC.