VLCNC-Cares

Mission Statement

North Carolina Veterans have begun to use our skills to organize and look out for one another. Until now, we have let our comrades fall and not made sufficient effort to rescue them. Veteran leaders recently created The Veterans Leadership Council Cares, an organization dedicated to helping North Carolina veterans look out for our fellow veterans. We are using the “mission to accomplish” attitude we all learned as military leaders.

Our organization, The Veterans Leadership Council of North Carolina - VLC NC CARES, or simply VLC Cares, is ready to step up and begin to eliminate homelessness among North Carolina veterans.

The primary mission of VLC-Cares is to substantially reduce the current number of homeless Veterans in North Carolina, starting in the Triangle region. We will concurrently work to prevent current Veterans from becoming homeless. Our goal is to remove hundreds of veterans and their families from the ranks of homelessness through a combination of programs designed to compliment and augment the existing programs currently in place through the VA and HUD. These programs include, but are not limited to, substance abuse and mental health counseling, basic and trade education, and life skills mentoring. 
VLC-NC Cares is currently designing a sustainable funding program that combines federal, state, and local monies, as well as individual, foundational, and organizational grants and donations to establish a Veterans Life Center. This Veterans Life Center will provide emergency and transitional housing. It will serve as well as a mall of services, government, professional, spiritual to provide "one stop shopping" for Veterans in need.  

VLC-Cares will use an approach like the combined arms tactics we use to win battles. Our Veterans Life Center (VLC) will combine outreach, shelter, rehabilitation and wellness. Our program will have trained personnel to find homeless veterans and get them off the street. Our facility will provide them with initial temporary shelter, while we work with existing counseling and training services to enable each veteran to move towards self reliance. Our facility is being designed to transition homeless Veteran from dependency, through various levels of assistance and support, to independence.

Our Veterans Life Center will include available space for outreach counselors from supporting organizations with the goal of providing at-risk veterans the assistance they need to avoid future homelessness. We will maintain a home for North Carolina’s Veterans in the Triangle to provide shelter and a one-stop-shop of services.