This weekend, One Community Now is hosting its annual Stand Down event at Veterans Memorial Park in Hudson.

The event brings services such as dental care, educational resources and health care to more than 400 homeless veterans and their families.

"You come by other people that you can relate to,” Navy veteran Clifton Moore said. “You can talk about how you got to where you are today, whether it's good or bad, but you can just talk to somebody that's walked in your shoes."

It has been difficult for Moore to adjust to civilian life, and he found himself unemployed and homeless.

"It's, like, you need more to do, so it's very easy to turn to other things to rectify what's missing, and we find ourselves doing things we probably shouldn't be indulging in,” Moore said.

But at this weekend’s event, Moore is hoping to take a step in the right direction.

"We really provide that positive atmosphere, where they know and they can believe in themselves and they can have that purpose, direction and motivation in the civilian world after,” said Brian Anderson, co-director of the event.

The veterans camp at the park and spend the days meeting with different resources in the area.

For the first time this year, the event set up a full veterans court on site. A judge was able to close 52 cases involving nine veterans.

"What we're trying to do is get people either into a program ... a lot of the folks here have closed cases, they have outstanding fines, they're unable to get their driver's license, so if they are trying to get a job, it's very difficult to get around. So we are trying to get those cleared up,” said Assistant State Attorney Chris Sprowls.