Welcome
to the Center for Veterans Issues' web page!
The Center was formed in
the mid-1980s as an advisory group to agencies serving
minority veterans. It began providing direct services
in 1988 when it purchased two duplexes on Milwaukee’s
north side—VETS Place North and VETS Place Park Hill—and
collaborated with the Social
Development Commission (SDC), to use these facilities
as housing and a place to provide supportive services
to homeless veterans. The Center was incorporated as
a not-for-profit organization in March 1989. In June
1994, CVI purchased and began renovating a former community
hospital to provide housing to veterans in Milwaukee.
This facility, now known as VETS Place Central, houses
72 homeless veterans in a transitional living program
and 12 senior veterans in single-room occupancy units.
 Our
Purpose
The Center for Veterans Issues,
Ltd. supports the concerns of all veterans. CVI provides
information, resources, leadership training, technical
assistance, organizational development and volunteer
services coordination to Veteran Service Organizations.
CVI also provides identification of funding and grant
opporunities, along with staffing and housing support.
CVI promotes veterans'
issues through program service design, planning and
implementation.
Our Goal
The goal of the Center for Veterans
Issues is to act as a nucleus to confront and address
human afflictions affecting veterans, their families
and the community through partnership with local, state
and federal agencies and organizations.
Programs and Services
CVI offers programs and services
to veterans, including transitional housing; day services;
education, training and employment services; drug and
alcohol counseling; mental health services; food and
nutritional programs; outreach to the community; motivational
and self-esteem groups; money management and budgeting;
and permanent housing referrals.
Without a safe environment with supportive
housing and services, many veterans could not break
the cycle of homelessness and move on to jobs and permanent
housing. Services provided by CVI are available to both
male and female veterans.
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