Wounded Warrior Homes

Wounded Warrior Homes housed 18 post-9/11 veterans with traumatic brain injury and/or ptsd in its transitional housing program for a total of 3544 nights during the year which equates to an average of 197 nights per veteran. In addition to housing, the organization provided the following re-integrative services and resources that include but are not restricted to:-access to its food pantry, personal care items, and over 100 grocery & gas cards-assistance with medical, dental, counseling, and dmv appointments-access to financial counseling and training-educational and job placement support-recreational and therapeutic activities support-assistance in locating and securing furniture and housing supplies upon transition-assistance with legal appointments-assistance with locating funds to help pay for car repair and payment of cell phone bills-we are a distibution sight for dog food for local veterans in the community in addition to those in our program with service dogs through our partnership with helene woodward - help with navigating the va systemadditionally, we help each veteran in our program craft a life plan, then assist themto implement it, facilitating their transition to civilian society. Wounded warriorhomes' goal is to make a significant impact in the lives of veterans in our community.veterans who complete the program may continue to receive support services. The organization received over 1700 contacts from veterans requesting support and assistance during the year. Over 4500 hours were spent responding to veteran needs inthe community, plus over 150 housing requests. We successfully transitioned 7veterans during this very uncertain year.43,309.2 pounds in 11 eleven months = avg 3,937 per mo34,601 pounds out in 11 months = avg 3,145.5 per mowe served 135 families regularly = 405 people plus hundreds more with our distributions to: step, asymca, nssd, the davidson's, new haven, vista teen challenge, casa de amparo, green oaks ranch, operation hope shelter, palomar college food bank, ucsd md/nurses lounge, stigtech, and teri school staff.we served 16 veterans with service dog food in our partnership with helen woodwardthis calendar year: 6,769 pounds of food - valued at $11,184.13!