ABOUT US
The Honor HER Foundation Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in 2016 and located along the Gulf Coast in Pensacola FL. We provide housing and services to homeless women veterans or those endagered of becoming homeless.
Why H.E.R.?
HER is always ignored, even though she served just as her male counterparts. Women are overlooked regarding their service and medical needs, and they are misdiagnosed. Ninety percent of women are diagnosed as suffering from anxiety disorder, not PTSD. This misdiagnosis has life-changing ramifications for these women. Women who serve suffer from some of the same ailments as males; however, they also suffer in greater numbers and quietly.
The Honor HER Foundation Inc, was founded by Retired Chief Cryptologic Technician Nancy Bullock-Prevot in 2016 to provide housing, meals, access to medical care, and establishment of benefits for homeless female veterans. There are ample resources for male veterans, but female veterans have continuously been forgotten – especially single female veterans. The state of Florida has over 1,525,400 veterans with 144,229 of those veterans being women veterans. Out of the 144,000 women veterans, between 2,600 to 3,000 women are homeless.
The definition of homelessness needs to be updated – the current way society defines homeless individuals are those who are on the street or holding signs. When it comes to homeless women veterans, this is not the case. Women veterans who find themselves homeless tend to sleep in their vehicles, at a friend’s home, or, as we have seen, in tents in the backyards of friends – they are not panhandling or holding signs. In fact, one could be eating in the same restaurant as you, but when they leave, they have no home to return.
Veterans in Florida
1, 525,630
Women Veterans
150,000
Homeless Women Vets
3,109
The definition of homelessness needs to be updated – the current way society defines homeless individuals are those that are on the street or holding signs. When it comes to homeless women veterans, this is not the case. Women veterans who find themselves homeless tend to sleep in their vehicles, at a friend’s home, or as we have seen in tents in the backyards of friends – they are not panhandling nor holding signs. In fact, one could be eating in the same restaurant as you, but when they leave, they have no home to return.
This is why The Honor HER Foundation exists: to take care of these women who served their country; educate the community; acknowledge these women; and provide them with housing, food, access to medical care and job training
We operate soley on volunteers and community funding. .