From left, Sam Zurzolo, Robins Home board member and retired Marine; founder Mary Chitwood; and Al Worsley, board member and Air Force veteran, raise the space force flag in a Sept. 26 ceremony in front of Robin's Home in Butler. The home for female veterans just received an award and cash from the Daughters of the American Revolution.KAREN DUNN PHOTO

Robin's Home, the residence at North Elm and East Pearl streets providing supportive housing for women veterans, has received the Vivian's Outreach to Women award from the Daughters of the American Revolution.

The DAR, through Vivian's Outreach to Women, aids organizations/shelters helping women veterans in need of medical, educational, child care, housing, clothing and food aid or other needs consistent with assisting women veterans to become self-sufficient in their communities.

The General Richard Butler Chapter of the DAR announced Robin's Home is one of three shelters in the United States to receive the 2021 VOW award.

Robin's Home, founded by Mary Chitwood, an Army veteran, provides a full continuum of care for homeless, unstably housed and low-income female veterans and their children and serves women veterans in seven counties: Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Lawrence, Mercer, Allegheny and Erie.

This is an excerpt from a larger article that appears in Thursday's Butler Eagle. Subscribe online or in print to read the full article.