This location provides a variety of supportive services to veterans.

Home Care: this program provides a variety of services to assist veterans and their caregivers. Supports may include: eating, drinking, dressing, bathing, home care, and other essential activities. Individuals can go through their local VA office or pay privately to access this service.

Veterans’ Hospital to Housing (Respite Care): this program addressed both the housing and recuperative care needs of veterans who have been hospitalized. A hospital to housing placement is appropriate for a veteran who has been evaluated in an emergency department or inpatient health care setting and determined suitable for direct transfer into the program and chooses that placement above other appropriate options. The veteran must be able to perform activities of daily living independently and must have a post-discharge plan coordinating care with the medical center.

Veterans’ Service Intensive Transitional Housing: this program provides time-limited housing along with a range of services to facilitate moving into permanent housing as quickly as appropriate. Services include helping the veteran find ways to increase income and/or benefits and obtaining permanent housing. Services, as well as lengths of stay, are on an individual basis.

Veterans’ Bridge Housing: this program provides a short-term stay in transitional housing for a veteran with permanent housing already identified after discharge. To be eligible for this program, individuals must have been offered and accepted permanent housing either prior to admission or within the first 14 days of admission. While the stay is expected to be less than 90 days, the length will vary depending on local housing markets and unit availability.

Veterans’ Low Demand Safe Haven (Harm Reduction Housing): this program offers transitional housing that has low demands on veterans and is operated with a harm reduction philosophy. Individuals in this program may include those who have experienced long-term homelessness, those who do not need or have not committed to treatment, and others who simply prefer a low demand environment.

Veterans’ Emergency Residential Services: this program targets and prioritizes homeless veterans transitioning from homelessness, veterans being discharged from institutions, including those in need of medical respite, and veterans who recently became homeless and require safe and stable living arrangements while they seek permanent housing. Lengths of stay typically range from 30 to 90 days with the option to extend based on clinical need.

Transitional Housing for Veterans with Serious Mental Illness: this is a partnership with the VA Medical Center. Residents receive care management and 1:1 treatment for SMI while learning skills for independent living. Many services are integrated on the unit, and the length of stay is a maximum of six months.

Contact:
(610) 380-1285
https://www.merakey.org/
1400 Blackhorse Hill Rd, Coatesville, PA 19320