KANSAS CITY, 密苏里州 — In response to housing instability for at-risk veterans, the 伯恩斯 & 麦克唐奈基金会 是否与美国农业部建立了全国性的合作关系 退伍军人社区项目 (VCP) to commit funds and resources for efforts to end homelessness among military veterans. 的燃烧 & 麦克唐奈基金会捐赠了150美元,000 to support VCP’s goal of serving veterans across the nation, 到2022年底确定另外四个社区.
“退伍军人社区项目 and its leaders have created a model that transforms the way communities can serve veterans and that every city across the country should look to implement,” 雷·科瓦利克，伯恩斯公司董事长兼首席执行官 & 麦克唐奈. “We’re honored to be the first corporate partner to support VCP’s expansion efforts into other cities where we work, and we look forward to serving alongside VCP as it makes a difference in the lives of veterans’ families.”
2016年由退伍军人创立, VCP provides innovative transitional housing communities consisting of tiny home villages and community outreach centers. Using the Kansas City village as the blueprint for achieving similar successes in cities across the U.S.目前，VCP正积极开展在圣. 路易, 密苏里州; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Longmont, 科罗拉多州.
“从一开始，VCP就是社区的项目. Now, it’s the nation’s,” 布莱恩·迈耶，VCP的CEO和联合创始人 and a veteran of the U.S. 海军陆战队. “全球网赌十大平台与伯恩斯的新伙伴关系 & 麦克唐奈 is helping VCP deploy resources to serve homeless veterans across the country. With the power of their employee-owners and strength of their corporate foundation, 伯恩斯 & 麦克唐奈 is helping VCP reach new communities quicker and more effectively than we could on our own.”
VCP serves anyone who took the oath to serve, regardless of military discharge status. 自2017年以来, VCP全球网赌十大平台超过4次,500 at-risk veterans and successfully transitioned more than 90 formerly homeless veterans into permanent housing. Case managers work alongside veterans to help achieve incremental and lasting results in the areas of health and wellness, 教育, 就业, financial literacy and the development of a personal support network. Each veteran’s stay in a VCP Village depends on individual progress toward personal benchmarks while working to secure permanent housing. 这些小房子的面积从240平方英尺到320平方英尺不等, 满足所有当地城市的法规要求, 并连接到城市公用事业全球网赌十大平台. Family houses are also available and can sleep up to seven people. Veterans stay in VCP Village free of charge, and all utilities and furnishings are also provided.
伯恩斯在全球拥有60多个办事处 & 麦克唐奈 plans to commit both funds and volunteer efforts to support VCP villages in communities where employee-owners live and work.
”博恩斯 & 麦克唐奈在全国各地雇佣退伍军人, 因此，在全球网赌十大平台的社区为退伍军人全球网赌十大平台不仅仅是全球网赌十大平台的责任, 它的个人,” 丹Korinek伯恩斯的副总统 & 和俄勒冈州的波特兰市. “Our Denver team is excited to link arms with VCP in its Longmont expansion that will build a transformational community for our veterans.”
In. St. 路易, plans are in motion to begin construction this fall for 50 tiny homes, 一个社区中心, and a Veterans 外展 Center in the Jeff VanderLou neighborhood in north St. 路易. 7月, the Sioux Falls City Council approved an ordinance gifting a plot of land for VCP to build a tiny home village and construction will begin within the next two years.
在生, 科罗拉多州, VCP’s Veterans Support 全球网赌十大平台 team began serving north 科罗拉多州 residents in June 2020 and now has opened its Veterans 外展 Center to serve any veteran in the community. Since then, VCP-Longmont has assisted 140 veterans, connecting 24 to permanent housing. Infrastructure work for the 26-unit tiny home Village began in June 2021. Vertical construction on the tiny homes and community center will begin in Spring 2022 with the goal of completion by winter 2022.
“A lot of these folks gave up more and gave more of themselves than the average person could ever understand if they haven’t been in their shoes,” 托德·索伊洛，伯恩斯的地区健康和安全经理 & 麦克唐奈和一名资深的美国官员.S. 军队. “The most that we could ever give back is barely a drop in the bucket toward what we all owe them.”
Approximately 70% of the construction for each tiny home village is planned to be performed by community volunteers. 人们可以在 veteranscommunityproject.org.
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退伍军人社区计划(VCP)
2016年由退伍军人创立 and headquartered in Kansas City, 密苏里州, VCP offers an innovative village of tiny houses and outreach assistance that provides inclusive services to aid at-risk and homeless veterans. 欲了解更多信息，请访问 www.veteranscommunityproject.org.