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SOUTH CAROLINA HOMELESS VETERANS GET HELP FROM
VA GRANT -- Will help develop the Kinard Manor
Veterans
Transitional Housing Facility in Greenwood.
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LFS Carolinas Receives VA Grant for Services to Homeless Veterans
COLUMBIA, S.C., PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- LFS Carolinas was recently
awarded an $87,750 Veterans Administration grant to provide services to
homeless veterans in South Carolina. LFS Carolinas will utilize the
award to develop the Kinard Manor Veterans Transitional Housing Facility
in Greenwood, SC. The facility will open early in 2007.
"This grant will launch a crucial partnership among faith groups and the
public and private sectors on behalf of veterans," said Suzanne Gibson
Wise, President of LFS Carolinas. "All of us recognize the unselfish
sacrifices our troops have made. Their needs are great when they return
home and we must help them heal and return whole to their families and
communities."
Kinard Manor, a former LFS Carolinas group home, will house up to eight
veterans. Veterans will assist other veterans by sharing experiences,
providing mental, emotional, social and spiritual support services
enabling them to become self-sufficient and maintain independent living.
Through collaboration with the WJB Dorn VA Hospital, Immanuel Lutheran
Church, Greenwood Police Department, and others, LFS Carolinas will
reach out to the homeless veterans in the Greenwood area.
"Only through a dedicated partnership with community and faith-based
organizations can we hope to end homelessness among veterans," said
secretary of Veterans Affairs, Jim Nicolson. "South Carolina veterans
answered their country's call to serve during its greatest times of
need, and now some live without shelter. This grant will help them get
back on the road to self- reliance."
"Congratulations to LFS for receiving this award. This grant will
provide valuable resources for those veterans who have served and
sacrificed for our freedom," said Congressman Gresham Barrett, former
Captain in the U.S. Army and US Representative for South Carolina's 3rd
District, which includes Greenwood. "I appreciate their dedication and
all their continued assistance to South Carolina veterans, and I offer
them my support."
WJB Dorn VA Hospital will provide case management services to veterans
at Kinard Manor. They will also provide monthly outreach/educational
sessions for homeless veterans without shelter.
Immanuel Lutheran Church will assist homeless veterans in three ways:
through a mentoring program where residents will be assisted with
applying for needed services within the community and getting acclimated
to their new living environment; development of a Business Partnership
Advocate designed to educate local businesses and secure employment for
veterans; and the Giving Back community project designed to identify
community volunteer projects for Kinard Manor residents.
Approximately 1/3 of the adult homeless population in the U.S. served in
the Armed Forces and 560 homeless veterans live in Upstate South
Carolina. The VA grant is one of 52 grants recently awarded worth
approximately $11.6 million to public, non-profit and faith-based groups
for programs assisting homeless veterans.
Each year, LFS Carolinas works to bring healing and wholeness to
thousands of children, adults, families and communities through
accredited human service programs at many program sites in North and
South Carolina, coordinated from central offices in Raleigh, Greensboro
and Charlotte, NC and Columbia, SC.
LFS Carolinas partners with human service providers, governmental
agencies, congregations and others to provide the most effective
programs and outcomes possible. Founded in 1976, LFS Carolinas is a
joint social ministry of the North Carolina and South Carolina Synods of
the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
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Larry Scott
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