{"id":7025,"date":"2021-06-04T16:23:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T16:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/press-releases\/sens-ossoff-warnock-announce-over-2-5-million-to-help-homeless-georgia-veterans-reenter-the-workforce\/"},"modified":"2021-09-14T20:21:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:21:14","slug":"sens-ossoff-warnock-announce-over-2-5-million-to-help-homeless-georgia-veterans-reenter-the-workforce","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sens-ossoff-warnock-announce-over-2-5-million-to-help-homeless-georgia-veterans-reenter-the-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Sens. Ossoff &#038; Warnock Announce Over $2.5 Million to Help Homeless Georgia Veterans Reenter the Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 Today, Georgia U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock announced more than $2.5 million in federal funding to help Georgia veterans experiencing homelessness successfully reenter the workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The grant awards come from the U.S. Department of Labor&#8217;s Homeless Veterans\u2019 Reintegration Program (HVRP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HVRP is a competitive grant program focused exclusively on competitive employment for homeless veterans. The grants will benefit six Georgia organizations serving local veterans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHelping veterans out of homelessness is a top priority. That\u2019s why we\u2019re delivering these resources to help Georgia veterans who are down on their luck to build skills, get jobs, and rebuild their lives,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>said Sen. Ossoff.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUpholding our promise to our veterans to help them live full, independent lives while strengthening our workforce at the same time is a win-win for our state, and I\u2019ll continue fighting to make sure federal dollars keep flowing to help Georgia\u2019s veterans,\u201d<strong>said Sen. Reverend Warnock.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Please find a breakdown of the grant funding for Georgia organizations below:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The Warrior Alliance Inc<\/strong>.: $430,000<\/li><li><strong>City of Refuge Inc.<\/strong>: $500,000<\/li><li><strong>Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency Inc.<\/strong>: $375,000<\/li><li><strong>Mary Hall Freedom House Inc.<\/strong>: $400,000<\/li><li><strong>Recovery Consultants of Atlanta Inc.<\/strong>: $500,000<\/li><li><strong>Veterans Empowerment Organization of Georgia<\/strong>: $468,091<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;\u2014 Today, Georgia U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock announced more than $2.5 million in federal funding to help Georgia veterans experiencing homelessness successfully reenter the workforce. The grant awards come from the U.S. Department of Labor&#8217;s Homeless Veterans\u2019 Reintegration Program (HVRP). HVRP is a competitive grant program focused exclusively on competitive [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7025","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7297,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7025\/revisions\/7297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}