Homeless veterans receive help througn intensive transitional program

About a dozen homeless veterans are receiving help to find permanent housing, from the El Paso County Homeless Veteran Coalition.

Last week, about a dozen homeless veterans were selected to participate in a transitional housing initiative, which will provide them with suitable housing. They were given an 18-day hotel stay, three meals a day and transportation, as a group of volunteers works to help them find suitable housing.

“It’s intensive, we are here all day long” EPCHVC board member Roxann Crouse said. “We have transportation. We can get them to appointments, we can get them to social security, we can get them to the VA or Rocky Mountain Human Services.”

For homeless veterans like Bobby Stokes, the help has been invaluable.

“Yesterday I got me a job and things are looking up,” he said.

Stokes hopes to have permanent housing in about a week. The goal is for everyone in the program to have housing by Nov. 6.