ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Veterans Integration Centers or “The VIC,” in southeast Albuquerque has two decades of mainly helping homeless veterans get off the street. Now, they’re working on new investments around mental health and hunger.
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Retired Marine David Fauntleroy lived on Albuquerque’s streets for months, and credits “The VIC” for saving his life. Fauntleroy said, “All through the process, like I said before, they made me feel like somebody cared. When I was homeless, I felt like nobody in the world cared about me,” going on to say, “They literally gave me my life back.”
Caring for homeless veterans, the Veterans Integration Centers offers help from financial to health care and housing. And in the coming months, they’ll expand more critical services. Chief therapist Joseph Hogan said, “Hopefully we’re going to be able to get other therapists to work underneath me; hopefully we’ll be able to likely bill Medicaid as well as Tricare for the veterans as well.”…