Wednesday August 21, 2024: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST

Presented by VA’s Homeless Programs Office, National Center on Homelessness among Veterans, in collaboration with VHA’s Institute for Learning, Education and Development (ILEAD)

Audience: Multidisciplinary staff serving Veterans at risk of homelessness or experiencing homelessness. Participants may include but are not limited to physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, counselors, case managers, housing specialists, peer specialists, occupational therapists, team leaders, supervisors, addiction specialists, and Network Homeless Coordinators.

Modality:  Virtual conference (webinar)

Credit/hours:  1

Accreditations:  ACCME, ACCME-NP, ANCC, AOTA, APA, ASWB, NBCC, ADA, NYSED, SW, CRCC

Overview:

Offering Veterans spiritual support could tackle a number of risk factors impeding health and well-being post-homelessness. Spirituality, as defined by Veteran Health Administration’s (VHA) Whole Health model of care, entails an individual’s search for meaning or purpose in something (e.g., an entity or experience) larger than oneself; it encompasses but is not wholly defined by formal religion. Supporting spirituality may counter mental health conditions and substance use which are notable risk factors for homeless status.

This webinar will review findings from a VHA quality improvement project conducted across HUD-VASH programs in New England; findings suggested that enhancing efforts to offer spiritual support within these programs would better address the needs of Veterans who desire such support.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this educational session, learners will be able to:

1. Describe the spiritual support preferences that exist among Veterans in New England’s HUD-VASH system.
2. Explain barriers to offering spiritual support that may be present within New England’s HUD-VASH system.
3. Identify strategies to create opportunities for how HUD-VASH could best offer spiritual support through collaborative efforts.

Registration:  To receive credit for attending, VA employees need to register in TMS before the training begins: 

To find a course when logging into TMS:

Go to Learning, scroll down to My Learning,  type in Course # and Title 

VA TMS 131013225 Integrating Spiritual Supports for Veterans in HUD-VASH: An Evaluation

Be sure to click Register Now rather than Assign to Me or Start Course

If you are external to the VA  or Non VA staff you must have a registered TRAIN account AND register for todays training in TRAIN PRIOR to commencing training, failure to do so will result in CEUs not being awarded.

If you do not have a TRAIN account please click the  link: https://vha.train.org.

VA staff register here

 Non-VA staff Register here

For questions with TMS/TRAIN registration, please contact clarice.lewis@va.gov or lee.furry@va.gov