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
It’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month And we have an inspiring success story of “Susana,” a domestic violence surivivor Susanna came to Home Start after fleeing from a domestic violence incident in another state. Alone and pregnant in San Diego, she first bounced between hotels and shelters before meeting our Domestic Violence Housing Specialist, Jordan, in
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Join Home Start at 9:30 am on Thursday, November 17 in recognition of National Runaway Prevention Month. Wear green and help us shine a light on youth homelessness. More than 1,500 youth are among San Diego’s homeless population A national survey on youth homelessness found approximately 4.2 million youth up to 24 years of age
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