The network
El Paso County is dense with veteran services and still short of beds. We add beds, and our partners will do what they already do best.
The network
El Paso County has many veteran services. The VA, the Vet Center and Home Front Military Network run strong intake, counseling, benefits and employment pipelines. The Salvation Army operates a VA Grant and Per Diem transitional program for veterans, with 60 veteran beds in its fiscal year 2027 award. Grant and Per Diem is the VA program that pays a daily rate for each veteran housed in a transitional bed. Homeward Pikes Peak runs permanent supportive housing, which is long term housing with services, a later step on the same path out of homelessness. The Continuum of Care still measures the county 195 shelter or transitional beds short.
That gap is the niche. The proposed relationship with our referral partners is one sentence long: they refer and screen, and we house.
The regional front door for HUD funded homelessness resources, and how veterans experiencing chronic homelessness are prioritized across providers. Our bed inventory must be listed and live in that system before House 1 opens, planned for April 2027.
Primary and behavioral healthcare for residents. The Vet Center provides no cost, non-medical counseling including military sexual trauma care, the trauma informed spine of the women's program.
Emergency shelter, victim advocacy, legal advocacy and trauma counseling across three counties. A veteran specific cross referral agreement is the single document that most directly serves the thirty percent floor.
Free accredited help filing VA disability, pension, and PACT Act (toxic exposure) claims. Every resident will be connected here at intake. Earned income is what makes a move on to permanent housing survivable.
SSVF is Supportive Services for Veteran Families, a VA funded program covering any discharge status short of dishonorable. A planned referral channel, and a plausible collaboration once we have a service record.
None of these agreements is signed yet, and we will not describe them as though they were. They are named targets with a defined relationship, and written referral agreements with at least three partners are due before House 1 opens, planned for April 2027. The occupancy plan depends on it. Any funder is welcome to call any organization on this list and ask what stage we are actually at.
