NO ONE LEFT BEHIND!Last week I went out with my team to hand out survival boxes to the homeless on streets lined with make-shift shelters. The number of homeless has grown exponentially since I first began scouring the streets for veterans in the 1970s. What ...
300 Miles in 3 Days for Veterans’ Mental Health Issues
US Army Combat Vet Jake Ruch set off from the Welcome to Las Vegas sign on the south end of the Strip on April 11th to cycle 300 miles to Los Angeles—in three days. Originally planned as a ride across America, Ruch’s goal adapted to the ...
NVF Coronavirus update: Delivering Survival Boxes to Homeless
Serving Veterans for 35 years, the National Veterans Foundation expands to all LA homeless by delivering Survival Boxes containing masks, gloves, food, sanitizer and some personal care items, enough to last 3-5 days.For 15 years our NVF ...
Veteran’s Day Art & Poetry
The National Veterans Foundation is pleased to feature a special Veterans Day project that uses art and the written word together. This project began as a collaboration between an artist and a poet in Crestline, California, a community in ...
A “Chat with Shad” August 15th
Our Strategic Summit in March was so successful in terms of participation and outcome that we created a follow-up event, a “Chat with Shad,” to coincide with an August Board meeting at our offices in Los Angeles. Several board members flew ...
NVF Offers Trauma-Informed Training
The new training program, 4 Points Builds a STAR, was developed and written by Melinda Meshad, LCSW. The training is designed for people who work with veterans whether through the VA or other veteran service organizations. Collaborating ...
Keyword: Collaboration
The Los Angeles Veterans Collaborative is comprised of hundreds of community stakeholders, agencies and representatives serving veterans and military families in Greater Los Angeles. Founded in 2010 and administered by the Center for ...
Lifeline for Vets: Vet-to-Vet Live
It was September 11th. 2019. An OIF Marine Veteran called our Lifeline for Vets. Mary Ann Mayer received the call and quickly referred him to Counselor Louis Geiger, also a Marine Vet. Louis reports, “At first, he was very quiet and ...
