Veteran Partnership
Brentwood School helps Veterans through its longstanding partnership with the VA.
The VCRE (Veterans Center for Recreation and Education) at Brentwood School provides educational, athletic, and recreational opportunities — an extensive array of services that Veterans rely on and often cannot get elsewhere. From a daily shuttle around the West LA VA complex and a full athletic facility with trainers to numerous classes, thousands of meals, and scholarships for children of Veterans, Brentwood's partnership with the VA demonstrates how collaboration with community partners can benefit Veterans.
Have questions about Brentwood School's VA Partnership? Please contact the VCRE Coordinator today!
Stay Informed with the VCRE Newsletter
Every registered member of the VCRE receives a monthly newsletter by email, full of news and information about upcoming events. Recent newsletters have described a Brentwood School creative writing class for Veterans that analyzed a poem by Vietnam Veteran Yusef Komunyakaa, shared news about expanded yoga offerings, and listed upcoming events, such as a movie night for Veterans. Sign up for the VCRE Newsletter to stay informed about upcoming events and programs at the VCRE.
The Need for Housing
Those who have served our country deserve housing, and Brentwood School’s extensive services to Veterans support the plans to build a thriving community for Veterans on the West LA VA campus. Through recreational, educational, and social activities, as well as transportation services, the school helps make the difference between housing and a home.
Veterans appreciate the open-air fitness facility, and its caring trainers, in a peaceful, green environment. And Brentwood School’s job preparation classes have led to employment — and hope — for Vets. To complete Veterans' new homes, we have supplied move-in kits with kitchen, bathroom, and living room essentials for the more than 275 units now open on the VA campus (buildings 205, 207, 208, 209, and 671 MacArthur Avenue). The school routinely exceeds its lease obligations; for example, Brentwood School prepares and delivers more than 21,000 meals each year to homeless Veterans, using the resources offered through HUD/VASH, the VA Welcome Center, and Safe Parking. We also donated $200,000 to help fund individual shelters at Care, Treatment, and Rehabilitative Services (CTRS), a West LA VA program that helps Veterans transition from unhoused to housed.
Brentwood School leases land on the West LA VA campus for athletic facilities, and students are permitted on the Veteran land only during specific hours. All of Brentwood School's non-athletic facilities (including academic buildings) are on land owned by the school, purchased from Urban Military Academy in 1972.
Brentwood School actively seeks to employ Veterans. Please view our Employment page for current openings.