Chesapeake Health Education Program (CHEP), Inc.

CHEP originated in 1990 as an organization with the sole purpose of providing quality continuing education to health care professionals. In 1995, CHEP was presented with an opportunity to provide transitional housing to military veterans who needed a home and a second chance in life. Over the years CHEP has become a true hybrid organization that has both a commercial and a social mission. In the past, rather than depending on charitable donation or grants, the organization has depended largely on its own commercially generated revenue to fund its social mission - housing and supporting homeless veterans.

As a non-profit we exist to sustain their key mission, housing and supporting homeless Veterans. The path to sustainability requires profit making initiatives that provide reliable funding for critical but decidedly unprofitable mission focused work.

Mission:
It is their mission to equip these professionals with the skills needed to serve their veterans, and to provide support to the veterans themselves as they transition back into everyday life successfully.

Goal:
• Remain a recognized and well respected provider of service-intensive transitional housing in those areas where they currently operate programs: Perry Point, MD Washington, D.C., and Charleston, SC.
• Provide supportive housing and related services that help homeless Veterans achieve goals of residential stability, increase their skill level and/or income and obtain greater self-determination.
• Offer relevant, cost effective continuing education programs for healthcare providers as an ongoing mechanism to sustain transitional housing program needs that are not within the scope of federal grant and per diem reimbursement.