Nearly 30,000 men and women separate from military service and return to California each year. Many face significant personal, financial, and emotional challenges in their attempts to re-enter civilian life. The California Department of Veterans Affairs Operation Welcome Home attempts to reach each of these veterans, assess their needs, and get them connected with the employment, education, housing and health benefits and services they have earned.
Operation Welcome Home is critical to ability of many returning veterans to successfully move forward in life. Without help, many drift aimlessly or struggle with unemployment, homelessness, marital problems, depression, drug and alcohol issues, combat-related injuries, PTSD, and other debilitating health problems. Operation Welcome Home works to help veterans become happy, healthy, contributing members of their communities as quickly and as smoothly as possible.
Without a state or a marketing budget, our best hope for success is to partner with government, business, community organizations, and veterans groups that can help us promote our program and enable us to reach more California veterans.
Attached is a list of ways your group can help support Operation Welcome Home. Please read it over and let me know how your group is willing to help. If I can answer any questions about the program, please call me. Thank you for your consideration.
Carolyn Ballou
Marketing and Outreach Specialist
Operation Welcome Home
California Department of Veterans Affairs
(916) 653-1355
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