A Comprehensive Veterans Plan to Help Ourselves
"Vets 4 Vets"  Neighborhoods

Adaptive Reuse
Trillacorpe New Home Builder will partner to facilitate and train vets to use their sweat equity to
rehabilitate and repurpose vacant hotels, schools, hotels, homes and apartment complexes.

Home Ownership
▪Lease-to-own program
▪VA financing
▪USAA insurance

Commonalities
▪Green, germ-free environments
▪Geothermal heating / air conditioning
▪Solar powered electricity
▪Non-denominational church(es)
▪“VetsWatch” for security
▪Charter schools
▪Community gardens
▪Community activity centers
▪Veteran organization meeting rooms



Services Available at HQ Facility and Selected Sites

Intake and Evaluation
▪Skills assessment
▪Physical assessment
▪Mental assessment
▪Job readiness

Basic Needs for Self-Sufficiency
▪Transitory living
▪Retirement home
▪Food service
▪Rehabilitation
▪Wellness clinic(s)
▪Skilled nursing
▪Medication dispensing and monitoring
▪Mental health/drug counseling
▪Meet specialized needs

Education and Training
Potential Job Concentrations per the Occupational Outlook Handbook:
▪Building trades
▪Food service
▪Janitorial
▪Auto body
▪Niche production
▪Entrepreneurship

Community Re-entry
▪Career planning
▪Placement within the "Vets 4 Vets" system

Research
▪Good tracking system for future planning
▪Closed head trauma, PTSD and Alzheimer's
▪Physical limitations at home and work
▪Group dynamics



Resources

Major University Affiliations
▪Michigan State University
▪University of Michigan
▪Wayne State University
▪Oakland Community College
▪Wayne County Community College District
▪Schoolcraft College

Referrals
▪MVCF Founder
▪VA Ann Arbor
▪VA Detroit
▪Veteran service organizations
▪Veterans groups, i.e., VVA, VFW
▪Michigan Association of County Counselors
▪Local and private hospitals
▪And more...

Fundraising and Publicity
▪Multifaceted ongoing fundraising
▪Encouragement  of “Vets 4 Vets” campaign engagement
▪Multimedia advertising, print materials and e-newsletter