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Updated at 8:21 a.m., Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Grant to help homeless vets in Hawaii awarded

Advertiser Staff

Network Enterprises, Inc. of Honolulu has been selected for a $278,000 competitive grant from the Department of Labor's Veterans' Employment and Training Service to provide assistance to O'ahu's estimated 1,200 to 1,500 homeless veterans.

The grant was announced yesterday by U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie's office.

"One of the greatest tragedies in today's society is that military veterans account for nearly one fourth of our homeless population," Abercrombie stated in the news release. "No group of people has given more, and none more deserves our help. The jobs skills training, job placement, temporary housing and other continuing support services that Network Enterprises will provide under this grant can literally turn people's lives around."

In addition to the job training and placement, the grant program provides comprehensive case management services to help homeless vets deal with other significant obstacles to steady employment, including health problems, substance-abuse issues, criminal records and such psychiatric diagnoses as post traumatic stress or bipolar disorders and chronic depression.