FACILITATE MEDIA CUSTOMIZATIONS WELLNESS VOA|ReST 4 Veterans Schedule a Session VOA|ReST 4 First Responders Schedule a Session VOA|ReST for Anyone Schedule a Session Peers who want to help Peers are trained to be facilitators for one-hour group sessions available nearly every day of the week. Learn more about becoming a facilitator by clicking above. VOA|ReST sessions Using our online technology partner, HeyPeers, connecting with peers is simple and free. Click above to register and join a VOA|ReST session. Group support when & where you need it Connect with up to 10 other peers to share, reflect and remain resilient and…

Encouraging Positive Development with youth and family programs                                                                 Volunteers of America provides high-quality youth and family programs and innovative services for disadvantaged and marginalized children and youth. Through our caring staff, we ensure young children’s social, emotional, and academic development. We empower older youth to be physically, emotionally, and mentally healthy and ready to enter adulthood. Our programs provide a continuum of care and support for young people…

Emergency Shelter Volunteers of America provides protection from the freezing winter climate and the scorching summer heat. Extreme temperature ranges can be life-threatening and create an urgent need for our neighbors experiencing homelessness. Volunteers of America works to end homelessness through street and mobile outreach. We also operate emergency shelters, drop-in centers, and safe spaces where people can quickly get off the streets. Transitional Housing for Veterans Our transitional housing programs, promote the development and provision of supportive housing and services with the goal of helping homeless veterans achieve residential stability, increase their skill levels and/or income, and obtain greater…

Affordable Living for Older Adults For older adults, maintaining independence is very important. At Volunteers of America, we provide older adults services such as housing for seniors who want to live independent lifestyles where they can thrive and age in place. Our senior residents deserve the quality of life that they desire, and our commitment to service-enriched housing offers them just that. Service Coordinator programs are located within most of our senior housing communities and they enhance the quality of life for residents in our communities by enabling seniors to live independently and longer in their own homes and improve…

Relief for individuals & families with physical care and specialized therapies.

Interdisciplinary Teams This is all possible because PACE employs interdisciplinary teams at the core of the program to exchange information & solve problems as the needs of each participating individual evolves. Primary Care Participants then have regular access to doctors and other primary care professionals who know them and specialize in caring for older adults. Improved Health Participants enjoy a recognizably improved health status, quality of life, lower mortality rates, increased choice in their time management, and greater confidence in dealing with life’s challenges. Financial Model The PACE financing model combines payments from Medicare & Medicaid or private pay sources…

Specialized Case Management Services Intensive supervision and support can divert youth from the court system or incarceration. The service is provided to pre-trial defendants in the community who may otherwise be incarcerated while awaiting trial.  Residential Treatment Our specialized in-patient intensive treatment programs, using cognitive behavior approaches coupled with more traditional 12-step and relapse prevention services, are helping break the cycle of recidivism and are provided for individuals, women parenting children, and youths referred by the criminal justice system. Community Sanction & ReEntry Program Through our reentry program, we provide a continuum of proven service models to help returning citizens…

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OUR SPECIALIZATIONS Prevention, Treatment, and Support Research in Behavioral and Mental Health has established that prevention and treatment can work, but there is a gap between what is known about prevention and treatment and what is generally done. There is no such gap at Volunteers of America. Volunteers of America is a leader in the field and offers a continuum of supportive Behavioral and Mental Health services and residential treatment options to assist adolescents, adults, and their families in experiencing life without addiction and in becoming contributing members of their community. Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) is the use…