“I have been impacted by most of my families, I learn something new from each of them.” Choosing Social Work as a career was for two main reasons: the first one is that back home in Iraq, we did not have services like here. I was interested to know more about how to help people […]
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Home Start’s fourth maternity housing program is expected to open in about six months A craftsman-style bungalow in Normal Heights will become a temporary home for five young mothers later this year as part of a nonprofit’s expanding efforts to help new families facing homelessness. “It’s not a lot of beds, but it’s five more
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Our Community Services for Families Case Manager Tessa recently shared the following: “I worked with Jonah, a father of eight children, for almost a year. Unfortunately, the majority of this time he was experiencing homelessness. From the beginning, however, he remained focused on meeting with me and ensuring his children’s safety, learning new parenting techniques,
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Although a little hard to hear her story, watch Mary share how Home Start helped her and her husband overcome homelessness. She and her husband were sleeping behind our Home Start offices In El Cajon. Home Start reached out to Mary on multiple occasions, would give her food and hygiene kits, and enrolled her into
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Raul was referred to Home Start’s Community Services for Families Program. He was not being the safe and supportive father for his family he desired to be and was not making good choices. While working with our staff, Raul shared many times that – because of his substance abuse problems – he was not able
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