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Supporting Veterans with more than a meal<\/h2>\n\n\n
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By John Lew, Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System Public Affairs Office <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

June 9, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Each month, social worker Jennifer Edwards, a Department of Housing and Urban Development-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) case manager with the\u00a0Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System<\/a>\u00a0(EOVAHCS), starts her morning by loading her car with bags of donated food from The Coffee Bunker, a Tulsa nonprofit dedicated to supporting Veterans. What looks like a simple delivery route is, for Edwards, one of the most meaningful parts of her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eastern Oklahoma VA social worker delivers food and hope to Veterans in need<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":4862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"priority":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-4861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-va","tag-food-security"],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/homeless\/supporting-veterans-with-more-than-a-meal\/","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Supporting Veterans with more than a meal","url":"http:\/\/department.va.gov\/homeless\/supporting-veterans-with-more-than-a-meal\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/department.va.gov\/homeless\/supporting-veterans-with-more-than-a-meal\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/homeless\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2026\/06\/morethanameal.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/homeless\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2026\/06\/morethanameal.png"},"articleSection":"Around VA","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Shawn Liu"}],"creator":["Shawn Liu"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"VA Homeless Programs","logo":""},"keywords":["food security"],"dateCreated":"2026-06-09T11:59:35Z","datePublished":"2026-06-09T11:59:35Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T18:34:57Z"},"rendered":"