My goodness, there's a lot to unpack there.
With respect to case managers being trained specifically on military sexual trauma and housing insecurity or homelessness, I think there's just this ingrained, unaware bias that presupposes that women have spouses or that they have support systems in place. When that is not the case, having case managers meeting the veteran without these pre-existing biases and suppositions would help build rapport and trust between the case manager and the veteran.
So many veterans, including me, are just not heard at all. With respect to homelessness, I had a case manager I repeatedly told I was homeless. Let's expand that to be a more inclusive definition—housing insecure—because women veterans, as we know, do exist. They are not invisible. They are out there. They do present in a much different way from what we're typically led to believe. They are couch surfing or perhaps staying in different shelters.
I had a case manager who said that VAC did not have a housing mandate and to just look on Kijiji. That was as far as I got with that. I skipped around from couch to couch, to short-term Airbnbs, to my car, and I was being denied services because I didn't have a fixed address. I know that maybe doesn't necessarily answer that question directly, but there needs to be more awareness and more special training. These are specific topics.