Employment and Employment Support Services for
HOMELESS VETERANS

Homeless Veterans Reintegration Project

HVRP is a proven, successful program that gets homeless veterans off the street and back to being productive members of society. WDVA provides HVRP-W services to Women Veterans in the Puget Sound Region of King, Pierce, Thurston, Kitsap, and Snohomish Counties. HVRP-Rural services are provided to Counties in Eastern Washington, Northern Idaho, Western Montana, and Northeastern Oregon.
The HVRP offers a structured, individually designed case management plan to assist veterans become employable and secure.

Program Services include:

• Immediate needs – food, clothing and shelter;
• Outreach to homeless providers;
• Employability needs and skills assessment;
• Job readiness services, including transitional housing assistance, basic skills training, therapeutic work, résumé
  development and employment opportunity referrals; and
• 90, 180, and 270-day job retention
  follow-up.

Eligibility:

To be eligible for participation under HVRP, an individual must be homeless and a veteran as defined:

The term “homeless or homeless individual” includes persons:

• Who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence;
• Whose primary nighttime residence is either a supervised public or private shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations, or a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutional; or
• Living in a private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.

The term “veteran” means a person who served in active duty military,
naval or air service and who was discharged or released under other
than dishonorable.