Brandon Wilson

Managing Director

brandon.wilson@abccm.org

Brandon Wilson is currently serving as the Director of Veterans Services of the Carolinas with Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry (ABCCM). His duties include the oversight of seven Federal and State grants supporting veterans and their families across North Carolina. These grants include: Supportive Services for Veterans and Families (SSVF), a Department of Veterans Affairs housing program addressing homelessness; Homeless Veteran Re-integration Program (HVRP), an employment program from the U.S. Department of Labor designed to support veterans in transition from homelessness into the workforce, two outreach and peer led programs funded by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services; Healing Outreach Partnership for Empowerment (HOPE) and Projects for Assistance in Transitioning Homelessness (PATH), both aimed at extensive outreach to the homeless population that struggle with mental illness/substance abuse, and NCServes the state’s first service coordination platform for Veteran service members and their families; also funded by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

Prior to this role, Brandon worked in the mental health field at VAYA Health to bring awareness and coordination between the community and the mental health field outside the Veterans Administration to better serve veterans and their families. Previous to that position, Brandon held numerous positions with the North Carolina Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, to include Regional Veteran Service Officer, State Training Coordinator, and Deputy Director of the North Carolina Division of Veteran Affairs (NCDVA). During his time in Raleigh, Brandon served on the NCDVA Senior Leadership Team and was instrumental in the creation of the NC4Vets Resource Guide; as well as the transformation and restructure of the agency and establishment of a new NC cabinet level agency of Military and Veterans Affairs. As the State Training Coordinator, Brandon developed a new training platform for VSO’s, which lead to a 42% increase in Fully-Developed Claims, leading to the growth of North Carolina’s Veteran portfolio by over $1.2 Billion; the fastest growth rate of VA claims in the United States in 2015.

Brandon is a combat Marine, who served in the infantry during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has served as an advisor to many local, state and national committee and currently serves on the NC Governors Working Group as the subcommittee chair on housing, member of the NC State Consumer and Family Advisory Committee, an advisory board to the Secretary of NC DHHS and is on the board of Haywood Pathways Center, a local transitional housing organization. Recently he was appointed to the Advisory Committee on Homeless Veterans by VA Secretary Denis McDonough to provide national solutions on benefits and services to Veterans experiencing homelessness.

Brandon currently resides in Waynesville, NC with his wife Sara and two daughters and is an active member of the Waynesville Rotary Club and Sunday School Director at Allen’s Creek Baptist Church.