Nation’s Finest Formally Opens Home For Homeless Veterans

Mother Nature came through with gorgeous “only in the North State” weather, as she unfolded clear skies and plentiful sunshine for an appreciative throng attending a recent ribbon cutting to formally open a 105-year old (renovated!) home, for homeless Veterans, in Redding’s southwest corridor downtown area.

It was all made possible by a non profit organization called Nation’s Finest, founded over 50 years ago by a group of Vietnam Veterans and  serving Veterans and Veterans families in California, Arizona and Nevada, with a primary focus on housing, mental health, case management and employment services.

According to Rebecca Daricek, the Site Director for the Redding office, Nation’s finest is a service organization that specializes in helping Veterans lift themselves out of homelessness or imminently homeless situations and, to accomplish same, relies on several resources available that are largely funded through the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

“One of the things I think is important to express, in Nation’s Finest interactions with various community partners, is that often agencies have limited funds, to help way too many people,” Daricek explained, “So that the advantage of referring Veterans to Nation’s Finest is that our funding very likely doesn’t draw from the same pool,” Daricek added.

Daricek requests that any agencies or members of the public that wish to refer a Veteran, to the local office of Nation’s Finest, do so by contacting her at 530-410-0494 or by email:  rdaricek@nationsfinest.org.