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Reaching Troubled Veterans Before Family, Homes are Lost

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Thursday, July 10, 2014   

NEW YORK CITY - Long Island ranks second in the nation for places veterans call 'home.' A recent grant is helping area veterans deal with stress, before it leads to losing a home or family.

Michael Stoltz, executive director of Suffolk County United Veterans, said summer is the most difficult time to find troubled veterans, when they often decide to camp or live in a vehicle. Preventive measures now could prevent problems later.

"If we can give them a place to go," said Stoltz, "provide some peer support and clinical services, we could help mitigate the situation before the veteran became homeless, and before the family would break up."

A $30,000 grant from the Long Island Community Foundation is funding a 24-hour peer-supported crisis, respite and support services program.

According to Stoltz, repeated returns to battle have resulted in a wide range of challenges for returning veterans.

"Particularly with our more recent veterans who are really not doing well," said Stoltz, "struggling with family distress and disturbances, sometimes complicated by substances, emotional turmoil, and transition issues."

He said the grant is particularly important for Long Island.

"The island is the metropolitan region in the country, second only behind San Diego, for where veterans live," explained Stoltz. "It backs up why it's so important that we have a good, healthy range of services to be able to help veterans of all ages."


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