Returning Vets Have Need for Convalescent/Nursing Facility in North NV

I reguarly go to the Senior Center in downtown Reno, Nevada.  Last Friday was local candidates day.  I talked with Ms. Xiomara Rodriguez who's running for State Assembly.  You'd think she'd be all about her campaign, but she said there's a desparate need in our area for returning vets in psychological distress or physical ill-health to live for a time in a "half-way house," where their needs could be attended to and where they could adjust to their handicapped condition forced upon them by either the Iraq or the Afghanistan war.  She displayed a passion for their plight, which to her signalled finding a place where they could be attended to and cared for by professionals.  I said, that though she had not promoted her own campaign to me, I would vote for her (once I'm registered here in Nevada!), because anyone with that degree of dedication to the public welfare, especially to the plight of returning veterans, should be in public service!

That evening at home, I thought about her stated goal of establishing a convalescent facility for vets here in northern Nevada.  I am aware that these wars have led to much pain and suffering for returning soldiers; and that due to modern advances in medicine many lives that would have been lost to combat are now capable of being saved and rehabilitated. 

But I'm also aware that this is a difficult time to ask for more federal funding for Nevada.  One thing came to mind: the work of the Mormon Church in the back woods areas of Brazil over the years and the work of the Barnetts, father and son clergymen for the Assembly of God Church, in downtown LA.  In each case they  got local communities together to build, i.e., physically construct, edifices that served an immediate local social need.  It's the same idea as the Habitat building program espoused prominently by former President Carter.

In the case the Barnetts, a defunct hospital's buildings and grounds were transformed by the work of volunteers who received only food, clothing and lodging at the buildings they were renovating into a residence to take the homeless off the streets of the downtown LA area and give them hope for a bright future they would be creating for themselves (with the help of the International Dream Church staff). 

So, maybe, a way can be found for Ms. Rodriguez et. al with assistance from the US military to take the lead in galvanizing northern Nevadans to bring about the dream of a convalescent/nursing facility that would house temporarily hundreds and hundreds of returning US veterans until they're given the means to adjust to their present condition, knowing that they are currently in real distress and pain; and in dire need of learning about hope for a happy life for them.