One Point of Entry – Whole Veteran Care
NOVA Veteran’s Quality of Life Cycle© is a systems approach to providing personal direct support around multiple and diverse services and resources. NOVA Veteran’s mission is critical due to the vulnerable and most susceptible population of veterans we support, who are the elderly, disabled, health-challenged, and the underserved. Our vulnerable population of veterans are not able to access and receive services without our direct personal attention, support and case management. Our support includes: evaluating comprehensive needs, filling out applications, searching for and finding appropriate services, coordinating with providers/programs so veterans receive all services needed and available (veteran and nonveteran specific).
How We’re Distinct – We are the only local veteran nonprofit that performs a comprehensive veteran intake, determines priority of needs, case manages, coordinates with multiple potential service providers, advocates, and provides continual follow up to ensure services are received and continued as needed.
Who Benefits – Veterans and their families who are most vulnerable, such as the elderly, low income, health-challenged.
The Need – The 2017 US Census reports 199,049 veterans living in our 10-county service area. 62,471 of these veterans are categorized to be within our vulnerable veteran population with:
- 4,688 (2.4%) in poverty,
- 31,431 (15.8%) disabled
- 26,352 (13.2%) age 75+.
2021 RAND Study by Ramchand, Rajeev. “Suicide Among Veterans: Veterans’ Issues in Focus.” States: The largest number of veterans who die by suicide are between 55 and 74 years old.
We need to meet their needs better!
They Deserve it – Most of the veterans we serve need additional attention and support. Many don’t have a military retirement or Tricare/Veteran Healthcare. However, NOVA Veterans Association honors and helps veterans of any status because regardless of how long they served or if they were reserve or National Guard they still vowed to fight for our country and sacrifice their lives for our freedom. So we aim to give them the highest standard of care and greatest opportunity to live their best life. They earned it!