it's been around for a long time, swords to plowshares, so how did it get started?it was started in 1974 by some vietnam veterans and vista volunteers to attempt to meet the needs of vietnam veterans that weren't -- who weren't being received so well by society or by the va, frankly, at that point in time. >> and what have you seen in terms of transition? and it's getting better or... >> oh, well, yeah, it's gotten much better. it's gotten much better, especially since 9/11. the acceptance and the welcoming home of veterans has -- i don't think we've seen that since world war ii. >> it's a lot different than vietnam, too. >> yes. >> for sure. so, when you started, you had to basically take this organization from nothing and then create -- now you have an amazing housing program. >> we have a housing program. we house close to 500 veterans in supportive housing every night. about two thirds of that is permanent housing. the rest is transitional. we also help veterans find housing. we help with eviction prevention. we help veterans access their benefits with free atto

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we had a solid competent accountable nonprofit organization swords to plowshares that understood thegestalt if you wish as well as the numbers of the population and this is a credit to the sheriff of the current sheriff in the previous two shares that this happened. we need to do more of that and explore now the sheriff's exploring the idea of doing it with the older population of 55 and above and if you will see if you look at the age charts, that could be helpful. we might be able to do that with women. so we think that's the way to go. really the collaboration that this workgroup has developed really needs to be sustained. we don't necessarily have the answers how but we think you all should reflect on that and hopefully in the next report we will have some better ideas. one way to frame it might be that if we need to reduced activation by 120,000 beds that we frame it like the frame other wisdom that we learned in the community like getting to zero. maybe and 3-5 years we can get to zero on alternatives and not going for a jail right now and say, we want to get to zero with alter

we had a solid competent accountable nonprofit organization swords to plowshares that understood thegestalt if you wish as well as the numbers of the population and this is a credit to the sheriff of the current sheriff in the previous two shares that this happened. we need to do more of that and explore now the sheriff's exploring the idea of doing it with the older population of 55 and above and if you will see if you look at the age charts, that could be helpful. we might be able to do that with women. so we think that's the way to go. really the collaboration that this workgroup has developed really needs to be sustained. we don't necessarily have the answers how but we think you all should reflect on that and hopefully in the next report we will have some better ideas. one way to frame it might be that if we need to reduced activation by 120,000 beds that we frame it like the frame other wisdom that we learned in the community like getting to zero. maybe and 3-5 years we can get to zero on alternatives and not going for a jail right now and say, we want to get to zero with alter

we had a solid competent accountable nonprofit organization swords to plowshares that understood thegestalt if you wish as well as the numbers of the population and this is a credit to the sheriff of the current sheriff in the previous two shares that this happened. we need to do more of that and explore now the sheriff's exploring the idea of doing it with the older population of 55 and above and if you will see if you look at the age charts, that could be helpful. we might be able to do that with women. so we think that's the way to go. really the collaboration that this workgroup has developed really needs to be sustained. we don't necessarily have the answers how but we think you all should reflect on that and hopefully in the next report we will have some better ideas. one way to frame it might be that if we need to reduced activation by 120,000 beds that we frame it like the frame other wisdom that we learned in the community like getting to zero. maybe and 3-5 years we can get to zero on alternatives and not going for a jail right now and say, we want to get to zero with alter

we had a solid competent accountable nonprofit organization swords to plowshares that understood thegestalt if you wish as well as the numbers of the population and this is a credit to the sheriff of the current sheriff in the previous two shares that this happened. we need to do more of that and explore now the sheriff's exploring the idea of doing it with the older population of 55 and above and if you will see if you look at the age charts, that could be helpful. we might be able to do that with women. so we think that's the way to go. really the collaboration that this workgroup has developed really needs to be sustained. we don't necessarily have the answers how but we think you all should reflect on that and hopefully in the next report we will have some better ideas. one way to frame it might be that if we need to reduced activation by 120,000 beds that we frame it like the frame other wisdom that we learned in the community like getting to zero. maybe and 3-5 years we can get to zero on alternatives and not going for a jail right now and say, we want to get to zero with alter

we had a solid competent accountable nonprofit organization swords to plowshares that understood thegestalt if you wish as well as the numbers of the population and this is a credit to the sheriff of the current sheriff in the previous two shares that this happened. we need to do more of that and explore now the sheriff's exploring the idea of doing it with the older population of 55 and above and if you will see if you look at the age charts, that could be helpful. we might be able to do that with women. so we think that's the way to go. really the collaboration that this workgroup has developed really needs to be sustained. we don't necessarily have the answers how but we think you all should reflect on that and hopefully in the next report we will have some better ideas. one way to frame it might be that if we need to reduced activation by 120,000 beds that we frame it like the frame other wisdom that we learned in the community like getting to zero. maybe and 3-5 years we can get to zero on alternatives and not going for a jail right now and say, we want to get to zero with alter