When my husband Harry was serving in the Middle East, a coordinated attack involving three car-bombs killed several of his friends and left him seriously injured. Upon returning to the U.S., he spent several months in the hospital, and afterward needed extensive recuperative therapies during his long road toward recovery. He was lucky, but he challenges he faced demonstrate how grindingly difficult the transition is for those without a sturdy support system in place.
Read MoreAs our clients know, we don’t hand a person in distress a blind referral to another service. We won’t ask them to share their life and their story again and again, to fill out form after form, and wait and wait for care.
We promise: once a person enters any of the many programs within Harbor Care, they are automatically “in the system.” After 40 years of doing this kind of work, we know that more often than not, if a person doesn’t have a safe, secure place to stay, none of their other struggles will resolve, because that basic human need – safe shelter – remains unmet.
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