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Soldiers’ Angels Sacramento VA Community Team Blog
“May No Soldier Go Unloved... Walk Alone... or Be Forgotten…” |
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How Can You Help?
Help our wounded and homeless Veterans by directly donating today. $50 will buy a fully loaded backpack—Basket of Thanks. $100 provides toiletries for our wounded patients at the VA hospitals for a month.
Whatever you give will help us continue to serve our Veteran heroes. Download and print this form and send it in with your donation today.
All donations are tax deductible. |
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Adopt-A-Shelter Program By L. Stanley—February 11, 2008
Our team is working with the Northern California VA Homeless Coordinator, Christina Arrasmith, and Reed Walker-Height, the Homeless Women’s Program Coordinator to map and identify all public and private homeless shelters across our coverage area which covers Oakland to Eureka to Chico and Redding to Tahoe back to Sacramento.
Within this geographic region, the VA estimates there are 7,800 homeless Veterans. Our goal is to reach them by locating all the shelters.
Soldiers’ Angels are volunteering to “adopt” a local shelter: 1. Call the shelter once a week to see if a Veteran is there. 2. Whenever we find a homeless warrior, we’ll visit him/her to say ‘thanks’ and bring 3. We’ll also see if there is anything else we can do to help.
Once the database is complete, it will serve as a valuable tool for all the shelters to use as a resource to find a place for a Veteran in need of shelter.
We launched our program with The Grace Place, a seasonal homeless shelter in Camino, CA, run by the 7th Day Adventist Church. The shelter’s director is Michelle Witt, a marvelous woman with a heart of gold and endless patience. When I contacted her, she told us about a Veteran, who we’ll identify as HEJ, who needed a little help from some Angels!
We visited HEJ at The Grace Place and brought him a Basket of Thanks—a backpack filled with shirts, sweatshirts, coats, socks, underwear, pants, toiletries, caps, snacks, books and a down blanket.
That’s how we learned of his problems getting his medications and took care of it by picking up refills for a month and then buying him a P.O. Box so that he can now get them on his own. And working with the VA Homeless Coordinator, we’ll continue to help HEJ with his request to be moved to a Yountville VA facility.
Soldiers’ Angels is dedicated to doing all we can to provide assistance to our homeless heroes and we ask you to join us by making a donation to our Basket of Thanks Program or by volunteering to adopt a homeless shelter in your neighborhood.
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Michelle Witt, Director of The Grace Place Homeless Shelter in Camino gives Veteran HEJ some help reviewing all the paperwork with his medications that Soldiers’ Angels picked up for him from the VA in Sacramento… |
