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Northeastern PA Multicare Alliance Wants to Help Homeless Veterans
Northeastern PA Multicare Alliance Wants to Help Homeless Veterans - Friday, January 16, 2009 at 6:06PM EST
The dangerous dip in temperatures puts the homeless population at a huge risk.
One group hopes to open a new facility to give specific help to homeless veterans.
The Northeastern Pennsylvania Multicare Alliance is pushing for that facility.
It could help the more than 200 homeless vets in our area.
Inside Wilkes-Barre's Courthouse Towers , alliance members Sam Greenberg and Bob Alper take a look at their new office space.
"In a sense let's just say we're home or part of home," says Greenberg.
The group is searching for a building to house a facility serving homeless veterans and more.
“We are now working on a place where we can actually have a physical plant where we will be able to put these homeless veterans and not to, forgive me for this phrase, under the bridge and go looking for them," says Greenberg.
The multicare alliance formed last year, and this new office space is its next big step.
The end goal is providing a one-stop shop for troubled veterans.
The facility would provide counseling, drug and alcohol abuse treatment and job searching.
Post traumatic stress disorder for returning war vets could also be treated there.
Bob Alper of the Northeastern Multicare Alliance says, "For them the nightmare never ends. We want to cut away all the red tape and bureaucracy and have a hands on policy, one on one.”
The multicare alliance is eyeing the Valley Crest nursing home property in Plains.
A new facility will be built here soon, leaving old building empty.
County commissioner Stephen Urban says, "Until we get a firm date on when valley crest will be vacated we can't comment on that or provide any firm detail."
If the Mulitcare Alliance can't use the valley crest property that won't stop its efforts.
It will look for other buildings in other places.
In a few weeks the Multicare Alliance office will be fully staffed.
The office space is being offered up for free by the owners of Courthouse Towers . | | |
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