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Virginia VA helps homeless program reach “Functional Zero”
VA assists local organizations to achieve major milestone
The partnership includes Crater Area Coalition on Homelessness, St. Joseph’s Villa and Built For Zero.
To be certified as a Functional Zero community, organizations and local governments have created and sustained a support system that ensures fewer Veterans are experiencing homelessness than can be housed in a month.
Ending homelessness is possible.
To be certified as a Functional Zero community, organizations and local governments in the Crater Region have created and sustained a support system that meets these goals.
Great strides
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PETERSBURG The Crater Region is now the 11th community in the nation to reach functional zero for homeless veterans, as officials celebrated on Thursday.
The term functional zero when a community is able to identify and serve homeless individuals within 30 days. The region originally hit the milestone in February; a homeless sub population must fall below 3 in order to be considered.
“We now know, because we have experienced it, that ending homelessness is possible,” said Kimberly Tucker, senior director of Flagler Housing & Homeless Services at St. Joseph’s Villa.
Tucker, along with community leaders, commemorated the procurement in a press conference outside the Historic Petersburg Courthouse on Thursday morning. Speakers honored the work done by Flagler Housing and Homeless Services and joint organizations and extended hope in achieving the same accomplishment in other homeless populations.
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