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Wheaton-based nonprofit that provides housing, supportive services, and community outreach to help homeless and at-risk veterans and their families achieve self-sufficiency. It operates transitional and affordable housing for veterans and administers the VA-funded Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program across northern Illinois, with case management, employment services, and assistance obtaining VA and mainstream benefits.

Category: Housing & Transportation

Eligibility: SSVF serves low-income veteran families who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness; its transitional home requires at least one day of active-duty service and a greater than dishonorable discharge (own site)

Bellevue, Nebraska nonprofit that empowers veterans facing mental health challenges and homelessness through an annual 50-mile march from Lincoln to Omaha and year-round programs including grants, a storage lot, a veterans alliance, and the planned Community of Hope Campus.

Category: Mental Health

Oregon-based veteran service organization providing transitional and permanent housing, career development, transportation assistance, and peer support for veterans and their families.

Category: Housing & Transportation

Eligibility: Veterans and their families as stated on the org's own site

Chicago-based 501(c)(3) dedicated to transforming lives by providing treatment, housing, support services, and career pathways to individuals in crisis. Its Veteran Housing program offers veteran transitional, permanent supportive, and affordable housing across Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana, along with individualized case management, mental health counseling, substance use disorder treatment, vocational training, and employment readiness programs.

Category: Housing & Transportation

Eligibility: Veterans must be 18 years or older and honorably discharged from military service, and must be experiencing or at risk of homelessness and/or in financial crisis (own site)