Herbert Shaw, a Veteran whose story has touched many of you in our Journey Home community, passed away on November 11, 2019 at the age of 68. An American hero, Herbert earned our respect in the jungles of Vietnam as he fought for and sacrificed for the freedoms of this [...]
Here at The Journey Home, every Veteran we work with comes to us in a unique position. The individual support they require to get back on their feet is vastly different from Veteran to Veteran. We are classified as a “low-barrier” program. This means we meet homeless Veterans where they [...]
Ray is a former resident of The Journey Home with a remarkable, unique story. Ray’s path to homelessness started with the diagnosis of a serious heart condition resulting in a long stay in the hospital. Every aspect of his life has changed since that diagnosis; he is now currently waiting [...]
The Journey Home (TJH) is a transitional home for homeless Veterans. Many of you have been following one of our former homeless Veterans, Herbert Shaw, as he participated in Honor Flight Dayton on September 8, 2018. You contributed money for his Honor Flight Guardian and wrote letters to Herbert and/or [...]
Our mission is to “End Veteran Homelessness”. This task is more than a vision, it is our responsibility. A top priority of this mission is to provide personalized transitional services to the 15 Veterans who stay with us at any given time. The individual journey into homelessness for each Veterans [...]
Our success as a transitional home is because of the community. We come together to “end Veteran homelessness”. We work together, sharing in the responsibility of supporting our Veterans. Every successful event. Every meal. Every new home. Every new job is possible because of our community support. We’d like to [...]
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We recently sat down with Kevin Fletcher, who after 9 months at The Journey Home, is getting ready to move out into his own place. We talked with Kevin about how he came to us and how his time here helped him feel comfortable enough to finally take control of [...]
Thank you to everyone who came out last month for our first annual Victory for Veterans 5K! We had a great turn out and can't wait to get more fundraising events planned! We loved seeing runners and walkers of all ages turn out to honor our Veterans! Is there anything [...]