{"id":45062,"date":"2021-03-10T11:39:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T19:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=45062"},"modified":"2021-03-10T13:44:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T21:44:56","slug":"va-streamlines-access-to-care-housing-assistance-with-salesforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/stories\/va-streamlines-access-to-care-housing-assistance-with-salesforce\/","title":{"rendered":"VA Streamlines Access to Care, Housing Assistance with Salesforce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Salesforce recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.va.gov\/opa\/pressrel\/pressrelease.cfm?id=5633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> they have solidified an agreement to improve access to essential VA services and resources among homeless and at-risk veterans.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The partnership amplifies awareness and ensures users have enhanced reliability and speed in VA\u2019s web-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.va.gov\/homeless\/squares\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Status Query and Response System (SQUARES)<\/a> application, built on Salesforce, to quickly offer critical services to those veterans in need.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SQUARES has been vital during the COVID-19 pandemic in assisting food pantries, homeless service providers, state agencies, nonprofits and other organizations in swiftly connecting vulnerable veterans to VA\u2019s homeless prevention, rapid rehousing and wraparound supportive services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.va.gov\/homeless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VA\u2019s homeless programs<\/a> or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/veterans.force.com\/s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Salesforce Military<\/a> to learn more about the training programs Salesforce offers for veterans and military spouses.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Salesforce recently announced they have solidified an agreement to improve access to essential VA services and resources among homeless and at-risk veterans.\u00a0 The partnership amplifies awareness and ensures users have enhanced reliability and speed in VA\u2019s web-based Status Query and Response System (SQUARES) application, built on Salesforce, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":45066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sf_subhead":"","sf_i18n_disclaimer":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"alternateThumbnailId":0,"sf_product_cta_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"sf_content_type":[1729],"sf_theme":[1914],"sf_topic":[1741,1733],"sf_product":[],"sf_industry":[],"sf_role":[],"sf_multimedia_asset":[],"sf_location":[1724],"sf_collection":[],"sf_visibility":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-45062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","sf_content_type-news-announcements-customer","sf_theme-business-as-a-platform-for-change","sf_topic-salesforce-partners","sf_topic-stakeholder-capitalism","sf_location-amer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - 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