For referral partners
Written for caseworkers, discharge planners, chaplains, veterans service officers, and anyone who has had to tell a veteran there is nowhere to send them.
For referral partners
If you are a caseworker, a discharge planner, a chaplain, a veterans service officer, or anyone who ends a conversation by telling a veteran there is nowhere to send them, this is written for you.
Documented history of violence, active warrants, known weapons access, and your own safety notes. We do not schedule a first meeting without a completed screening record. This protects your staff as much as ours.
We would rather coordinate with the case manager a veteran already trusts than restart them from zero. Co-case-management is the default.
We house, and you continue what you already do well (benefits, counseling, employment, legal). We are not trying to become your program, and we will not duplicate a service you already provide.
Our staff will drive residents to appointments and walk in with them. When someone needs what you have, they will arrive with one of us.
Our budget funds certification for two of our own de-escalation instructors. Once they are certified, that training is available to partner staff at no cost. It is the least we can offer organizations we are asking a great deal from.
If we have no bed, you will hear that quickly and with a suggestion attached. A referral that disappears into silence costs you a veteran's trust, and we know it. Every admission is reviewed personally by the founder. A history of violence is not an automatic no; the veteran will be heard before any decision.
We are seeking referral agreements now, ahead of our first house opening. None is signed yet. If your organization wants to be one of the first, write to us. A first conversation costs nothing and we will bring a draft.
