The Veterans Life Center

The Veterans Life Center
• Under Development in Butner, North Carolina
• Phase 1 – shown above – will provide
transitional housing and services for 150
Veterans
• Services will include substance abuse, mental
health, nutrition, life skills, vocational
education and mentoring.
Building 71, John Umstead Hospital
Complex – Butner, NC
Artist’s Conception of the Veterans Life
Center, once the remodeling of Building
71 is completed
The John
Umstead
Hospital
Complex in
Butner, NC
• Arial view of the VLC Campus.
• VLC has a 25-year lease on eight buildings,
granted by the North Carolina Council of State
• Bldg 71 is in the upper red box.
• The buildings in the lower red box are the other
seven buildings that form the VLC campus
• When all buildings are completed, the facility
will have a capacity of 400 residents.
Three Steps to Self-Reliance:
1. Restore
A. Mental Health
B. Physical Health
C. Life Skills – e.g. keeping a
checking account,
budgeting, good diet /
nutritional needs
Three Steps to Self-Reliance:
2. Re-Educate
A.Vocational
B.College
C.Apprenticeship
D.Internship
Three Steps to Self-Reliance:
3. Re-Integrate
A.Housing
B.Employment
C.Community – a sense of
community, how they not only
live in the community but can
contribute to the vitality of it.
D.Services – helping them
understand the available
community services.
“It is not enough simply to put a roof over
a homeless person’s head. To truly make that
person self-reliant, we must employ bestpractices therapeutic and counseling
services to restore, re-educate and
re-integrate.”
-- John Turner
Executive Director
Veterans Leadership Council