Date to be announced 2023
$20 per person subject to change.
Registration at 10:00am | Kickstands Up at 12:00pm
6437 Amsterdam Road Schenectady, NY 12302
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Albany Housing Coalition’s $1,000 Charles Chandler Memorial College Scholarship for Albany High School Students.
Attention High School Seniors: Please consider applying for this scholarship.
EveryDayWarriors started a relationship with Albany Housing Coalition Inc! They selected us to to receive almost 10K from a golf fundraiser at Fairways of Halfmoon! Also of note, Daniel Brunner hit a hole in one on hole #5!
Albany Housing Coalition was chosen this year as the veteran organization to be the recipient of beautiful Chevy Silverado which will be used to help stabilize low-income veterans and their families in the Capital Region and provide a continuum of affordable housing and supportive services, including employment and retention and access to health care.
Sustainable solutions to Veteran Homelessness. Serving homeless Veterans since 1993.
American Veterans are
homeless nationally
American Veterans have been
homeless for over 12 months
What can we do
to help you?
We are offering rapid-response assistance to Homeless Veterans and those at imminent risk of losing their housing. Reach us at (518) 465-5251.
Join us for this year's 15th Annual Homeless Veterans Run on Sunday July 18, 2021.
The event raises funds for the Albany Veterans Housing Coalition. $20 per person. Registration at 10:00am. Kickstands Up at 12:00pm. Starts and ends at 6437 Amsterdam Road, Schenectady, NY 12302. Food, music, and raffles following ride at the clubhouse.
We re-dedicated our Veterans House on June 5th, 2020 to commemorate the life and accomplishments to Medal of Honor recipient Sgt. Henry Johnson, who lived for a time in our neighborhood. The dedication took place at the Veterans House in conjunction with the City of Albany's annual Henry Johnson Day.
This transitional residence provdes a safe home for 28 Veterans. Begun in 1990 this was our first Veterans residence.
LaSalle Institue hosts the Cadets for Vet's Hockey Fundrasier every January.
Year to date, we have raised about 30k for the homeless veterans. Once we have housed the previously homeless veteran, the funds are then used to purchase furniture and household supplies from our local furniture establishments that we have partnered with.
LaSalle Institue hosts the Cadets for Vet's Hockey Fundrasier every January.
Year to date, we have raised about 30k for the homeless veterans. Once we have housed the previously homeless veteran, the funds are then used to purchase furniture and household supplies from our local furniture establishments that we have partnered with.
LaSalle Institue hosts the Cadets for Vet's Hockey Fundrasier every January.
Year to date, we have raised about 30k for the homeless veterans. Once we have housed the previously homeless veteran, the funds are then used to purchase furniture and household supplies from our local furniture establishments that we have partnered with.
LaSalle Institue hosts the Cadets for Vet's Hockey Fundrasier every January.
Year to date, we have raised about 30k for the homeless veterans. Once we have housed the previously homeless veteran, the funds are then used to purchase furniture and household supplies from our local furniture establishments that we have partnered with.
One of the most common questions we hear is, “How is it that Veterans end up homeless?”
For combat veterans especially, the battle traumas and moral conflicts can be debilitating. Returning home nothing is the same and the veteran likely sees daily life events as petty in comparison to military experience. The onset of post traumatic stress can bring on alienation of family, suicidal tendencies, job loss, addictive behaviors. Feelings of shame, lack of direction, and feeling that only a fellow veteran can understand leads to further alienation. Studies show it can take 2-5 years to crash and the result oftentimes includes loss of housing. Other veterans have experienced dramatic life events, some of which pre-date their military service. Once back home, the same spiral to homelessness can begin.
Executive Director Joe Sluszka reminds us of the importance of our mission, “they come to us homeless and they leave with earned benefits, needed healthcare, employment, affordable housing, connections to family, a peer support network, and a renewed sense of self-esteem."
Our mission is to create relationships that engender trust, insist on personal responsibility, and provide each veteran with the resources needed for a full integration back into the community.
We will continue our work until every veteran has truly come home and has a permanent affordable place to call home, adequate healthcare, education, a meaningful job, has re-connected to family, and is a proud citizen in his or her community. Then we can shut our doors and declare victory because veterans homelessness will be a thing of the past.
Urban, suburban, and rural communities alike have proven that we can drive down the number of Veterans experiencing homelessness to as close to zero as possible, while also building and sustaining systems that can effectively and efficiently address Veterans’ housing crises in the future.
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Albany Housing Coalition Inc.
278 Clinton Ave.
Albany, NY 12210
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