Pathways/Resources for human development (RHD) organization provides service to patients with severe and persistent mental disorders. Like every disease, mental illnesses are also shaped to a great extent by physical, social and economic environments: born, grow, live, work and age. Patients with severe mental illnesses generally live 25 years fewer than the general population. Thus, […]
A city within a city the US Department of Housing and Urban Development says more than 2 million people live in public housing throughout the United States. Homelessness and poverty have had a constant increase throughout the years. With the minimum wage remaining low and the cost of living increasing, rents escalating as well as […]
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Get startedThe journal article entitled “Aging Out’ Gracefully: Housing and Helping Youth Transition Smoothly out of the Foster Care System” by Gabrielle Richards studies the youth population of the foster care system. That are about to face the transition into independent lifestyles after reaching the age of 18, or ‘aging out’ of the system. This article […]
One of the most prominent issues facing American social workers at this time is how we care for children in foster care and what happens to them once they leave the system. Too many times, children in the system turn 18 and are turned out on their own with little to no help. Occasionally, a […]
