Florida veterans group shifts efforts to aid homeless veterans

Veterans group shifts focus to the southern Brevard and beyond
NVHS has made progress in northern part of county
FLORIDA TODAY
Written by
R. Norman Moody

After helping more than 600 veterans this year, many of them homeless in the northern half of the county, George Taylor wants his force of volunteers to concentrate on areas in south Brevard and beyond.

Taylor, founder and president of National Veterans Homeless Support, said that in 2014 more of the organization’s search and rescue volunteers will seek out veterans in the southern part of Brevard, where there is now a larger concentration than in the north.

They also will look beyond the county to Sebastian in the south and west into Orange County, where they have already been working.

“We’re putting more boots on the ground there on the south end,” said Taylor, a Vietnam veteran who was homeless himself for a time after returning from the war.
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