Valor Medica is a program of Sevadar Foundation Inc. It provides medical care, mental health and recovery support, and vocational training to veterans and neighbors experiencing homelessness across the St. Louis region — delivered where people are.
Why it exists
Almost every process in health care quietly assumes three things: an address, a working phone, and a way to get to an appointment. A person sleeping in a car has none of them. Nobody decided to exclude them — the exclusion is structural, and it is invisible from inside the system doing the excluding.
Read more: You cannot treat someone you cannot find.
The population, in numbers that can be checked
HUD’s point-in-time count is the standard national measure: on a single night in January 2025, 745,652 people in the United States were experiencing homelessness, of whom 479,332 were sheltered and 266,320 unsheltered.
Of those, 32,495 were veterans — 18,977 sheltered and 13,518 unsheltered, meaning roughly four in ten homeless veterans were unsheltered. HUD reports that the number of homeless veterans has declined 56 percent since the figure was first reported in 2009, a decrease of more than 40,870 people over sixteen years, and that between 2024 and 2025 it fell by about one percent. The Department of Veterans Affairs describes the January 2025 figure as a record low since measurement began in 2009.
Both halves of that are true and they belong in the same paragraph. A 56 percent decline over sixteen years is one of the more successful sustained public efforts in American social policy. Thirty-two thousand people on a given night is still thirty-two thousand people. A nonprofit that reports only the first number is selling; one that reports only the second is too.
On mental health: the VA National Center for PTSD reports that about 7 in every 100 veterans (7 percent) will have PTSD at some point in their life, compared with about 6 in 100 US adults in the general population — and that the rate is higher among female veterans, 13 in 100, than male veterans, 6 in 100. Among veterans using VA care, one study cited by VA found 23 in 100 had PTSD at some point in their lives, against 7 in 100 of veterans who do not use VA for health care. VA reports past-year rates by service era rather than as a single all-veteran figure.
What Valor Medica does
Its own site describes the program in full and is the authority on it. In outline, it covers veterans medical care, PTSD and trauma care, mental health and substance use recovery support, street medicine, housing-linked care, and horticulture retraining as vocational training.
One description worth keeping accurate: street medicine here means basic first aid taken into camps and under bridges — interceptive care that stops small problems becoming emergencies. It is not a mobile clinic and this foundation does not describe it as one. Why we do not upgrade the claim →
Valor Medica and Valor Villages are not the same organization
Valor Medica is a program of Sevadar Foundation Inc., EIN 93-2840861. Valor Villages Inc. is a separate 501(c)(3), EIN 93-2266407, led by executive director Amanda Reynolds. Valor Medica is described as its medical arm and the two work together, but neither controls the other and a gift to one is not a gift to the other.
Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP is Chief Medical Officer of Valor Villages Inc.. He holds no established title at Valor Medica and this site does not assign him one. The full distinction →
Go deeper
This is a foundation page, not a clinical one. Sevadar Foundation provides no care and gives no medical advice. Everything about eligibility, services and how to be seen lives on the program’s own site. In an emergency call 911; if you are in crisis, call or text 988.
Sources
Every figure on this page is traceable. Where a source is a government report, the year the data describe is named alongside it, because it is usually not the year of publication.
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and Development. The 2025 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress, Part 1: Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness. Figures describe a single night in January 2025. huduser.gov
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. “Veteran homelessness continues downward trend,” VA News, June 25, 2026. news.va.gov
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD. How Common is PTSD in Veterans? Page last updated March 26, 2025. ptsd.va.gov