Tackling Veteran Homelessness with Ginger Miller, a Board of Governors (Presidential Appointee) Member for the USO and President and CEO of Women Veterans Interactive

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Ginger Miller, a Board of Governors (Presidential Appointee) Member for the USO and President and CEO of Women Veterans Interactive, joins the Airmen Helping Airmen Podcast with Kaleth Wright to discuss veteran homelessness in the United States.

Key facts

• Ginger’s LinkedIn
• Ginger’s Twitter
• Ginger’s Instagram
• USO Website
• 316 Operations Group Joint Base Andrews Website
• Women Veterans Interactive Website
• Ginger served as a Boatswain’s Mate Third Class in the U.S. Navy for over four years during the First Gulf War

Key takeaways

• After caring for her husband, a disabled veteran who suffered from PTSD for over a decade, and experiencing homelessness with her family, Ginger vowed to be victorious and worked three jobs and went to school full time to pull her family out of homelessness
  
• Tackling veteran homelessness requires getting those veterans outta homelessness and preventing others from being homeless at the same time. Becoming homeless is not an overnight process. People first become unstable. When veterans are unstable, they don't reach out for help
  
• If someone finds themself in that unstable position, they should embrace the reality and ask for help. The best way is to go to a specialized organization, like Women Veterans Interactive
  
• Women Veterans Interactive started as a division of John 14:2. Then, it became a nonprofit organization that brings a fresh new interactive approach to support women veterans. The foundation works through paid memberships and volunteering
  

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Quotes

• “The one thing that I wanted to hold onto was my mental state. Because I knew if my mental state had been gone, everything else would go with it”
  
• “When you start to become unstable and see these issues arising and these red flags, you gotta reach out for help before it's too late”
  

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