Graham testimony: system gaps in treatment courts, housing, and homelessness
Graham discusses gaps in veterans treatment courts, housing, and homelessness services. He describes the Valone Initiative team's role in air traffic controlling housing requests to DVS, mentions subject matter expert Tim Pena on homelessness, and calls for expanded case management within DVS.
But, yeah, there's so many different layers here.
I know the veterans treatment courts were mentioned.
You know, there's gaps there.
In fact, recently under the flown veterans initiative, I'm not going to say which council member I work with.
district.
We get all types of requests, not just for VA benefits, which we primarily cover, but we get all types of requests from housing, which DVS is doing a fantastic job.
So we sort of air traffic control any of those requests over to the DVS housing unit.
Homelessness.
I know I'm a little surprised he didn't speak today.
But Tim Pena, he's honestly, in my opinion, he's a subject matter expert.
Time expired.
Finish your thought, please, Ryan.
Yeah, there's a lot of different gaps within the system.
You know, one of the things, one of the, which we will probably, we will have this in our end of year report for the Veterans Advisory Board.
One of our board members, he mentioned it, an expanded out case management system within the agency, obviously require more funding, more manpower.
Because it can't be a revolving door in and out.