Welcome to the Orange County Stand Down Website

Welcome

This is the official webiste for the Orange County Stand Down for Homeless Veterans and families.  This site is meant to be your source for up-to-date information about the event, sponsorship and volunteer opportunities, and to pre-register for the event.  We will post more information on the event as it becomes available.

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2012 Forms and Flyers are now up

We are pleased to let you know that the forms and informational flyers for the 2012 Orange County Stand Down are now available online.  For the information/outreach flyer, click here.  For participant registration and/or volunteer registration, please click on the appropriate link on the menu bar.  For sponsorship information, please visit our sponsors section.  These materials will be updated as needed leading up to the Stand Down.  Must have Adobe Acrobat to view.

Non-Volunteer Participant per-registration forms will also be available at the following locations soon:

Long Beach: VA Hospital 5901 E. 7th Street

Santa Ana: Veterans First Service Center 1540 E. Edinger Ave. Suite D

                     Orange County Veterans Service Office 1300 S. Grand Ave. Building B

San Clemente: iHOPE Resource Center 106 W. Canada

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Plans are coming together for the 2012 Stand Down

The organizers of the annual Orange County Stand Down have been hard at work planning for this year's Orange County Stand Down.  The event this year will be 3 days, August 17-19 at the Army Reserve Center in Costa Mesa, CA.  Please keep monitoring this website as details are finalized.  For those groups who wish to be sponsors or service providers to the Stand Down and want to be added to the list for the monthly organizational meeting, please contact Linda Lomask with Veterans First at (714) 547-0615 or via e-mail at Linda@veteransfirstoc.org.

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THANK YOU

 On behalf of everyone involved with the 1st Annual Orange County Stand Down, we would like to thank all of the various community partners, donors and volunteers who came out to assist Orange County's homeless and at-risk veterans and their families.  Without your help, we would have never been able to assist the over 150 veterans who came through the gates over the two days.  We hope that you will continue to monitor this website and volunteer at the 2012 Orange County Stand Down.

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MORE THAN 150 HOMELESS VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES RECEIVE SERVICES AT THE 1ST ANNUAL ORANGE COUNTY STAND DOWN

SANTA ANA, CALIF.- More than 150 homeless or at-risk veterans and their families received services during the 1st Annual Orange County Stand Down held the weekend of September 17-18, 2011 on the grounds of Santa Ana College in Santa Ana, Calif.  To read the full press release, click here. (Must have Adobe Acrobat to view)