Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs / LinkVet

Minnesota's largest nonprofit focused on ending Veteran homelessness, providing statewide outreach, case management, housing/deposit/rental assistance and housing subsidies, plus employment/training services and the Vetlaw pro-bono legal program for Veterans who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

Category: Housing & Transportation

Eligibility: Any Veteran living in Minnesota (broad definition: anyone who served or is serving in a U.S. military branch, regardless of discharge status, including MN National Guard pre-basic-training members) and their immediate family/household members; fewer-than-honorable discharges reviewed case-by-case.

Program of an Indianapolis faith-based legal aid organization (founded 1994) offering free legal assistance to veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness through an LSV-H grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and a partnership with Helping Veterans & Families of Indiana. Services include housing and eviction defense, family law, tax controversies, expungement, driver's license reinstatement, discharge upgrades, and VA and public benefits appeals.

Category: Legal & Benefits

Availability: Walk-in consultations the second and fourth Wednesday of each month, 1:00-3:00 p.m. (excludes holidays), first-come first-served; phone consultations also available

Eligibility: Veterans who are currently homeless or at risk of homelessness (federal LSV-H grant criteria).

Free civil legal services for veterans living in Oregon who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, funded through a VA Legal Services for Homeless Veterans and Veterans At-Risk for Homelessness (LSV-H) grant. Assistance includes eviction defense, landlord-tenant and foreclosure cases, family law such as child support, child custody, and divorce, income and public benefits, criminal-record expungement and driver's-license matters, protective orders, and health care or employment issues.

Category: Legal & Benefits

Eligibility: Veterans living in Oregon who are homeless or at risk of homelessness (own site)

SSVF department based in Medford that serves veterans across Jackson, Josephine, Coos, Curry, and Douglas Counties in Southern Oregon, connecting them through case management with VA benefits and healthcare, education and employment opportunities, transportation, clothing, tools, and household goods, and providing rental assistance and rapid rehousing for unhoused veterans.

Category: Housing & Transportation

Eligibility: Veterans and veteran families that are homeless or at risk of homelessness in the service area (own site; criteria confirmed at intake)