A North County nonprofit that provides homes to veterans opened a women's center in Escondido this year — a single-family home reserved for single veteran women with children.

Two veteran women, each with two children are the first to live in the home since it opened.

Rick Espitia, the president and executive director of Wounded Warrior Homes, said he's looking to expand the program.

"We're really happy ... with the success that we've had bringing these families along," Espitia said. "We want to get more houses."

Navy veteran Emely Coleman was at a crisis point this summer. The full-time nursing student needed to find a place for her and her two children, 8 and 10, to live.

She was close to quitting school to work full-time, she said.

She went to Veterans Affairs in San Diego to look

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