PROGRAMS &
SERVICES

With more than 31 locations in 14 mostly rural communities in California, Arizona, and Nevada, each year we provide critical services and support for over 7,000 veterans and their families.

Our facilities are staffed by a diverse, professional, and talented group of individuals who are committed to serving all veterans in a respectful and positive way.

While we tailor our approach to the individual needs of each veteran, our services generally fall under a few broad categories. Click on the service icons below to learn more.

Transitional
Housing

Case
Management

Mental
Health

Employment
Services

Permanent
Supportive Housing

Mobile
Service Units

Homelessness
Prevention

Behavioral
Health

Transitional Housing

Homeless veterans with mental health disorders can stay at one of our clinical-model transitional housing facilities while receiving a range of onsite clinical services, employment and training programs, legal aid, and other methods of support.

Permanent Supportive Housing

We have over 300 units of permanent supportive housing specifically for veterans and their families, with more on the way. Learn more about our housing development subsidiary, Veterans Housing Development Corporation, by visiting HousingVets.org.

Mather Veterans Village

Windsor Veterans Village

Bayview Heights (Eureka)

Shasta Lake Veterans Village

Case Management

We understand how difficult it can be for veterans to access the benefits and services they’ve earned. With a complex array of resources and miles of red tape, it’s easy to get confused and feel lost.

Our case managers are, in many ways, the cornerstone of what we do. A case manager is the veteran’s main point of contact at Nation’s Finest. When veterans have a problem or they’re facing an obstacle in their life, a case manager is there to help them put all the information on the table and plot a course to help them achieve their goals by connecting them to the right resources.

Case management is an interactive process that provides veterans with support and services essential to effective treatment. The goal of case management is to help veterans develop the skills necessary to achieve and maintain independence.

All veterans meet with a Nation’s Finest case manager upon arrival to perform an initial assessment. Based on this assessment, the case manager works in collaboration with the veteran to devise a service plan addressing identified needs and objectives. Each veteran has a personalized service plan outlining barriers and goals related to substance abuse, mental health, medical needs, finances, education, employment, and housing.

The case manager meets with the veteran on a regular basis to monitor progress. In addition to scheduled meetings, case managers are always available to provide additional support or assistance.

Mental Health

Mental health problems including PTSD, moral injury, traumatic brain injury, military sexual trauma, depression, and anxiety are all too common among today’s veterans — and unfortunately, the mental health needs of those who served are often forgotten. We offer individual and group therapy sessions at our clinical model residential facilities.

Employment Services

We partner with local employers to enhance the visibility of veterans seeking employment, and we conduct frequent follow-ups with employers and veterans placed in employment to ensure continued success. We also work with local temp agencies to place veterans in positions that match their goals and qualifications.

Our case managers help veterans identify barriers to employment as well as the types of services most useful to placing them in long-term, meaningful employment. We provide workshops, peer-supported group processes, and instructor-led discussions designed to identify veterans’ skills and help them overcome barriers to employment.

Homelessness Prevention

We help eligible low-income veterans and their families remain stably housed with temporary financial assistance that can help cover qualifying housing-related expenses such as rental and utility assistance, deposits, moving and transportation costs, and other types of financial assistance designed to maintain stable housing or secure permanent housing.

Mobile Service Units

We operate two Mobile Service Units (Redding, CA and Carson City, NV) that provide services to veterans living in rural areas that often have limited local resources and are difficult to serve due to physical distance from brick-and-mortar service centers.

​With a fully functional mobile office, our staff can maintain regular and consistent locations and hours of operation in remote rural communities, providing a welcoming location veterans can access to discuss their needs with a professional case manager or counselor.

Art Therapy

As a California Arts Council grantee, we offer a Veterans in the Arts program that seeks to specifically address the needs and improve the lives of California’s veterans through arts, culture, and creative expression. The purpose of the program is to increase equity, access, and opportunities for veterans and their families to participate in quality arts programming that is sensitive and responsive to their unique experiences.

“Vietnam Veterans of California”, now Nation’s Finest, was passionate about supporting their fellow veterans of the War. But they also cared about the communities of people in Vietnam where they had received support and where they knew the tragedies of war would continue long after the Americans had returned home.

To support these communities they created:

THE VIETNAM PROJECT

In 1997 they opened a health clinic in Luong Son to serve the impoverished people of Vietnam, helping over 500 people each month.

In 2002 they built the first of three schools in Vietnam and to this day The Vietnam Project continues to support the provision of medical services and nutritional training to villagers in remote areas of Hoa Binh Province.

Help us to continue to support these efforts through a tax-deductable donation.

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