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NEW DIRECTIONS<br />

11303 Wilshire Boulevard, VA Building 116<br />

Los Angeles, CA 90073<br />

(310) 914-4045<br />

(310) 914-5495 (F)<br />

(310) 914-5966 (24-Hour Assistance)<br />

www.newdirectionsinc.org<br />

New Directions assists veterans in becoming healthy, sober, and self-sufficient by<br />

offering a wide array of services, including treatment for co-occurring disorders,<br />

job training and placement, parenting and money management classes, legal and<br />

financial assistance, counseling, remedial education, and resources for alumni.<br />

Clients leave New Directions with a job, housing, a savings account, computer<br />

skills, renewed self-confidence, and the support of mentors and peers.<br />

U.S. VETERANS INITIATIVE<br />

(213) 542-2600<br />

www.usvetsinc.org<br />

U.S VETS is the largest non-profit organization in the country that works<br />

to reintegrate homeless and at-risk veterans. U.S. VETS offers assistance<br />

in Inglewood, Long Beach and Riverside, California through transitional and<br />

affordable housing, case management, employment assistance, mental health<br />

counseling and substance abuse treatment.<br />

U.S. VETS INITIATIVE - INGLEWOOD<br />

733 S. Hindry Avenue<br />

Inglewood, CA 90301<br />

(310) 348-7600<br />

(310) 645-2605 (F)<br />

www.usvetsinc.org/inglewood<br />

U.S. VETS - Inglewood offers homeless veterans over 500 beds of transitional<br />

and permanent housing and a host of support services. Special needs programs<br />

include a Non-Custodial Fathers’ Program, which offers parenting classes and<br />

reunites fathers with their children. The High Barriers Program is designed to<br />

address additional barriers some veterans face (such as older workers) in getting<br />

back to work.<br />

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