Yesterday on Kentucky edition, we showed you Senator Rand Paul's visit to Anna's house, a transitional home for unhoused women veterans and Clark County.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs says women are the fastest growing group in the veteran population.

Women leaving the military have unique needs, and there are many resources to support them in civilian life.

Anna's house, a service from Lady Veterans Connect, helps to fill that gap in Kentucky.

And his house is a transitional home.

And remember my mom.

And when we are at maximum capacity, we can have 32 women veterans living here.

Women veterans are continue to be the fastest growing segment of the homeless population.

And just alone this year, suicide by women veterans is up 33%.

And that's just not acceptable.

We provide them with a safe place that where they have food and water and electricity and internet.

We have different services sometimes that are willing to come here and provide things pro-bono.

We want them to leave here and move on to new stable living arrangements, not go back to homelessness.

I have been here since last January.

So I have like a little suite here, a little window with plants because it's home.

I was on the flight land, the only female out there working on a fighter jet for eight years.

And that's it.

Yeah.

And breathe in.

Exhaust for a year cannot be good.

So when I got here, I actually had to go in the hospital, had blood clots in my right lung, have pneumonia in the wind.

She's been very helpful in getting me in touch with the correct people to where you know, there's no more.

Yeah, well, we'll get to you when we get.

Nine years is a long time.

I started, you know, my first disability claim nine years ago, and it's just now the people that she put me in touch with has made it happen.

This is the only one in Kentucky and and and in some of the surrounding states as well, because most of them are shelters.

And so it's temporary.

You got your cots in whatever here.

They all they have their own bedroom.

But we have a big kitchen.

We make it a family thing so that they can cook a meal together.

They eat together.

I think healing takes better place in a home environment.

And that's what we try to make is.

When you have the fellowship of other veterans, they understand you in a way that people who aren't veterans can't.

And that's what we're hoping to help drive the healing and the hope.

For.

Our women veterans who come here as is really building on that connection between them.

It's not easy being out there, and especially if you're female and it's really tough to maintain outside and with no no way of knowing anybody to help you have no helping hand up.

So this place was really late.

It saved me.

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