{"id":244190,"date":"2026-04-10T21:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244190\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T21:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:58:06","slug":"hope-for-the-warriors-gets-150000-grant-to-help-texas-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244190\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope for the Warriors gets $150,000 grant to help Texas veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 More financial help is now available to Texas veterans and their families. The Texas Veterans Commission awarded a $150,000 grant to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopeforthewarriors.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hope for the Warriors<\/a>. The money and assistance can be life-changing for Texas military families.<\/p>\n<p>Helping Texas veterans put food on the table is just one way Hope for the Warriors is supporting those who have served their country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can be life-changing,\u201d said Shelley Rodriguez, Senior Director of Clinical Case Management and Financial Wellness.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez works with veterans and their families to improve their quality of life. The $150,000 grant from the Texas Veterans Commission will ease common struggles such as paying the rent, finding a job, and getting mental health services to work through PTSD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/her-passion-can-live-on-forever-parents-of-student-killed-in-shooting-start-scholarship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO| &#8220;Her passion can live on forever&#8221;: Parents of student killed in shooting start scholarship<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA typical person would be a veteran who has been out of service for a little bit of time, may or may not be receiving VA disability, and is struggling for a myriad of reasons,\u201d said Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez said the first step for many vets is getting housing support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor many veterans, in Texas in particular, it means they are not evicted from their home. It means they are able to secure housing if they need that,\u201d said Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>Hope for the Warriors does not just issue checks. Instead, vets learn life skills such as managing their money better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you are in a situation where you have no idea what&#8217;s going to happen next, and you are responsible for a family, often knowing that someone is there who can offer you assistance can be life-changing,\u201d said Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth grant awarded to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopeforthewarriors.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hope for the Warriors<\/a> from the Texas Veterans Commission. In total, almost $620,000 has been used by Hope for the Warriors to assist military families in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 More financial help is now available to Texas veterans and their families. The Texas Veterans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-244190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}