Operation Veterans Assistance & Humanitarian Aid

Programs: Wenatchee veterans standdown: an annual event designed to assist homeless veterans and veterans in need. Ovaha provides surplus military goods and opens the event to other organizations, whom provide many avenues for support. The department of veterans affairs is also present to address any concerns and provide medical refief. It is a 1 to 2 day event providing services to homeless veterans,their spouses and dependants, such as shelter, clothing, health screening, va benefits, counseling and referrals to a variety of services such as housing, employment and treatment. We had 35 service/organizations tables (va medical, va dental, va admin, vfw american legion, marine league,legal assistance, housing. Skill source, work source, training, agent orange/counseling, hepatitis c screening/testing, hiv/aids info/counseling, mental health services. Substance abuse services, employment & job training. Personal care kits, haircuts, oef/ief services, vamc services, and hot meals). The 2016 standown assisted 418 veterans. 291 veteran dependants, there were 219 volunteers from the community. Handed out 707,418. 58 in military surplus items. Provided 402 meals, 123 living wills. Total of 962,957. 56 in support.

humanitarian aid program: is a life saving program to help ensure the safetly and welfare of the homeless in the central washington area. Our goal is to prevent the death of our fellow americans, through issuing them cold weather items to survive the extreme cold weather climate of the outdoors in our area. Ovaha provided 66,085. 51 in aid, which assisted 12 veterans with 107 dependants and 106 others with 103 dependants.

veterans warehouse thrift store: is designed to be a community resource center attempting to end homelessness in the veterans community. However, we not turn away anyone that is in need. The 12,000 sq ft facility provides the following programs: on-the-job training, operation uniform, operation homefront, operation mre, operation senior purchase, operation switch, consignment & retail outlet. The warehouse sold over 101,687 and had over 31,500 volunteer hours from the community. We helped: operations uniform - 2 veterans, 0 dependants , 15 others with 15 dependants (3,134. 86); operation homefront - 19 veterans with 19 dependants and 3 others with 7 dependants (19,541. 82); operation mre - 17 veterans with 11 dependants and 13 others with 14 dependants (1,378. 23); operation senior purchase - 1 veteran with 1 dependant (22. 83); job training - 5 veterans with 13 dependants and 17 others with 14 dependants (9,157. 40); operation switch - 1 veterans with 1 dependant and 1 others with 1 dependant (200. 00). Total assistance provided: 39,662. 37

operation community support: program focuses on aid rendered to community through partnerships with other organizations. This is ovaha's way of giving back to the commuinity, especially when natural disater occurs. Ovaha assisted the following community organizations and natural disaters:fire victims assistance, ssvf-supportive services for veterans familites, gospel house, dept of veterans affairs hhs, spokane vets center, women of the moose, lighthouse ministries, fire fighter support, music theater of wenatchee,knights of columbus. Chelan-douglas community action, hostpitality house,united way, hana house pregnancy center, peo sorority, serve wenatchee valley, preforming arts center, haven of hope,naomi house, yakima nation enrollment 11434, link transit, wfv color guard, great gatsby tree, lds church, americorps program (ncw), catholic family and child services, little miss wenatchee teddy bear drive, wenatchee high school deca. Total community support: 165,456. 83. Overall ovaha helped 1765 peopleof which 283 werevchildren, 311 spouses, 798 veterans, 166 non veterans and 217 others.