Press Releases

VOACC Announces the Transition of Alexandria Community Shelter

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Volunteers of America Chesapeake & Carolinas announces the transition of Alexandria Community Shelter to Carpenter’s Shelter, effective December 13th, 2023. Carpenter’s Shelter will manage the facility through a contract with the City of Alexandria. To learn, click the news release title.

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VOACC Welcomes Our New Board Member Caleb Jackson 

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

VOACC is excited to announce Caleb Jackson as the new Chair of our Board of Directors. Caleb has been a member of the Board since 2019 and had served as Co-Vice Chairman for two years prior to being voted Chair.

VOACC Launches Suicide Prevention Program for Veterans

MARCH 7, 2023

Volunteers of America Chesapeake & Carolinas (VOACC) is proud to announce that we have been awarded $750,000 by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs to launch the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox (SSG Fox) Suicide Prevention Program in support of our nation’s heroes in Virginia! To learn, click the news release title.

VOACC Welcomes New Members To Our Executive Leadership Team

JANUARY 17, 2023

We’re excited to welcome our brand-new Vice President of Maryland & DC Behavioral Health, Brandi-Goss Burchett; and our Director of Operations for the District of Columbia, Joseph Martinez-Williams. To learn, click the news release title.

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VOACC To Open First Medical Respite Program For Women In DC

JANUARY 16, 2023

VOACC is proud to announce that we’ve received a $20,000 grant from The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation to support the launch of Hope Has A Home™ for Women, a new medical respite program designed to support women experiencing homelessness, mental illness, substance use disorders, and chronic illness in Washington DC. To learn, click the news release title.

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VOACC’s Minority AIDS Initiative will serve Latinx adults of Washington, DC

JANUARY 2, 2023

Adding to its existing Yo Creo En Mi (“Faith in Me”) behavioral health program for Hispanic/Latino individuals, Volunteers of America Chesapeake & Carolinas (VOACC) was recently awarded a grant of $500k a year for 4 years by SAMHSA to launch the Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) in Washington, DC. To learn, click the news release title.

VOACC to launch a Second Chance Act Youth Reentry Program

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Volunteers of America Chesapeake & Carolinas (VOACC) is proud to announce that it has been awarded $750,000 a year for three years through the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention to launch a Second Chance Act Youth Reentry Program. To learn, click the news release title.

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