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A message from PSBCI's President

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,

Jeff Hanson

facts about homeless Veterans in U.S.A.
  • 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.

Source: Fact Checker: Accurate Statistics on Homelessness by the National Alliance to End Homelessness

Watch Veterans Video

This video is from a series of interviews conducted with several current PSBC veteran participants and former participant and home manager, Clinton Davis. The veterans talk about their service in the military, how they got to be homeless and what PSBC is doing for them.