At the 2019 Stand Down, which is co-hosted by the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and Stand Down of South Jersey, 187 homeless veterans were provided access to healthcare, mental health screening, substance abuse counseling, social services - food stamps and unemployment, legal services, religious counseling, a hot meal, a haircut, and winter clothing.

Since 1996, the South Jersey Stand Down has served as a catalyst that enables homeless veterans to re-enter mainstream society. Stand Down is a military term referring to exhausted combat units that were removed from the battlefront to a place of security and safety for rest and recovery. Today, Stand Downs are grass roots, community-based intervention programs to help veterans’ battle life on the streets.

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