Mayor stresses help for reintegrating homeless vets

Mayor stresses help for reintegrating homeless vets

Military veteran Bill Adams says he was in "an exceptionally dull spot" following a separation nearly a long time back, incorporating moving away from his youngster.

Gloom immediately plummeted, alongside vagrancy. His long periods of military preparation and a corporate profession couldn't save him, he told a City Lobby crowd Thursday.

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Dependent and broke, he endured five years living in the city of Jacksonville and somewhere else until he went to a drawn out treatment program at Gainesville's Veterans Issues focus. Then, at that point, he found out about the Destitute Veterans Reintegration Program at Jacksonville's Tactical Issues and Veterans Office and its work help.

Presently, just before Veterans Day, Adams itemized the assistance he got so he could get a new line of work, eventually winding up utilized as a regulatory assistant in the city chairman's office.

"I needed to give up and bite the dust, and I chose to give up and live," he said. "As I stand here today, I have been utilized by the city of Jacksonville for more than seven years. What's more, during that time, I have never brought in and not announced for work. I have likewise been perfect and sober for north of 20 years and presently have the honor of supporting the people who are as yet trapped in that destitute cycle."