Hello!
I'm Jeff Hanson, President and Co-Founder of Palmetto State Base Camp, Inc. and the Alston Wilkes Veterans Home here in Columbia, South Carolina.
At some time during the next year, more than 500,000 veterans will experience homelessness. At one point, these veterans served our nation honorably and today they need our support to return to independent living.
For more than a decade, PSBC, along with its sponsors, has helped more than a hundred South Carolina homeless veterans turn their lives around through its transitional residential and support program; with a few graduate veterans returning to help PSBC and its other veterans.
SOUTH CAROLINA HOMELESS VETERANS NEED YOUR HELP! There are many ways you can support PSBC and its veterans including making a donation and becoming a PSBC Supporter.
We thank you for visiting PSBC website and learning about us and our program. We hope you'll become a PSBC supporter!
Sincerely,
- 23-40% of homeless adults are veterans
- 97% of homeless veterans are males
- 46% of homeless veterans are white males
- 46% of homeless veterans are 45 or older
- 40% of homeless veterans have drug problems
- 58% of homeless veterans have alcohol problems
- In 2006, approximately 195,827 veterans were homeless on a given night—an increase of 0.8 percent from 194,254 in 2005
- Homeless veterans can be found in every state across the country and live in rural, suburban, and urban communities
- Homeless veterans have served in different wars, including World War II, Korean War, Cold War, Vietnam War, Grenada, Panama and Lebanon.
- Veterans serving in the late Vietnam and post-Vietnam era had the highest representation in the homes population
- Small but growing number of veterans from the Iraq Wars are showing up in shelters.
In photo (from left): PSBCI President Jeff Hanson, Senator Courson, retired LTC John J. Johnson, and LTC Butch Bowers.
Palmetto State Base Camp, Inc. was a 2008 recipient of the SC Competitive Grants' process. Senator Courson presented a check for $20,000.000 to support PSBCI's seven (7) single family transitional Community Housing and Development Homes (CHDO)which provide temporary housing needs for homeless veterans living in South Carolina. Senator Courson is also a former Marine with a distinguished military career and service to the State of South Carolina.
This video is from a series of interviews conducted with several current PSBC veteran participants and former participant and home manager, Clay Clinton. The veterans talk about their service in the military, how they got to be homeless and what PSBC is doing for them.