Solutions Journalism

Hope on the Homefront

A 10-part series by Melissa Whitworth in the Ithaca Voice about Ithaca veterans' return to civilian life.

Photos courtesy of Dave Burbank

Introduction. Hope on the Homefront: A 10-part series on Ithaca veterans’ return to civilian life - Ithaca Voice, June 17, 2015
Part I. Incarcerated Tompkins veterans: the crisis seen through one woman’s eyes - Ithaca Voice, June 22, 2015
Part II. The ‘win-win-win’ Tompkins could use to help jailed veterans - Ithaca Voice, June 30, 2015
Part III. Inside the push to find jobs for Tompkins veterans - Ithaca Voice, July 9, 2015
Part IV. From Baghdad to Trumansburg: A soldier finds purpose in paper-making - Ithaca Voice, July 10, 2015. Photos
Part V. Taking to the fields again: Tompkins veterans find farming a pathway home​, Ithaca Voice, July 24, 2015.  Photos
Part VI. Silent Warriors: Can Tompkins help surging number of female vets? - Ithaca Voice, August 3, 2015
Part VII. A call to arms: Creating a better life for Tompkins female veterans - Ithaca Voice, August 15, 2015
Part VIII. Home and Homeless: how veterans end up living on the streets - Ithaca Voice, September 4, 2015
Part IX. How Tompkins clinic gets veterans health care right - Ithaca Voice, October 3, 2015

Part X. Editorial: 5 conclusions about the crises facing Tompkins’ veterans by Jeff Stein, Ithaca Voice, October 9, 2015
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Press about Hope on the Homefront series

• Case Study: The Ithaca Voice, Solutions reporting in a (very) small newsroom - Keith H. Hammonds, The Whole Story, solutionsjournalism.org, Dec 7, 2016
  
• ​How One Small City Is Helping Veterans Return To Civilian Life - Catherine Taibi, Huffington Post, June 26, 2015 ​

Photos courtesy of Dave Burbank