Today we are excited to introduce you to an amazing youth in our housing programs. Marlene has been living in Home Start’s Housing Our Youth Program (HOY) for a little over a year. On the way to her intake appointment in the Fall of 2023, Marlene shared that she was crying. Negative thoughts and judgement […]
Just a few years ago, Sandra found herself being threatened by terrorists in her war-torn country. They wanted to take over her house, and so to save her life she fled and eventually made it to the United States to start a new life. Today, Sandra is the mother of a beautiful 2 year
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After hospital staff found drugs in the system of newborn baby Tina from her mother’s drug addiction, San Diego County stepped in and placed the infant in a safe foster home. They then reached out to Tina’s father (the parents were no longer together and he was doing well) to see if he would be
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Nancy turned to Home Start’s Behavioral Health Services to help her 4 year-old son Sam. He was having severe nightmares, exhibiting extreme separation anxiety when being dropped off at daycare, and acting inappropriately at home. Our therapist Valeria soon learned that Sam had witnessed his father assaulting and abusing his mother, and that while pregnant
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Earlier this year, David and his 2-year-old son, Matthew, were referred to Home Start’s Community Services for Families program. This young single father has faced many obstacles throughout his life, including years of abuse from his own dad while growing up, witnessing domestic violence committed against his mother by his father, and, eventually, his father
