Happy To Be Home

Ms. A came to Families Together through our community’s Street Outreach in October 2018. She was sleeping in her car, while her 2 young girls stayed with her sister every night. She had been staying with her mom, off and on, but with repeated substance abuse issues, she felt that was not the best place for her and her children so she did what she could to make ends meet. She was still able to maintain a job and keep her children in school while working with Families Together to find permanent housing, despite the barriers of having past evictions. 

Ms. A was housed in December 2018 and what a time of celebration it was! She continued to work, despite temporary jobs coming and going, because she knew she had to continue to provide a stable home for her and her children. Ms. A was able to maintain her housing for a full year, but that was not the end to her story. She was on the Section 8 waiting list for over a year and kept her information updated. She received notification from Raleigh Housing Authority in October 2019 that her name had come up on the list for a Section 8 housing voucher. Only 1 in 4 people eligible for this type of assistance actually receive it. Ms. A was overjoyed and enlisted her Families Together Stabilization MA's assistance with the process and in February 2020, she was able to successfully move from one home to another. Ms. A told her Mentor Advocate “if it were not for Families Together pushing me to keep going, I do not know where I would be.”

Ms. A is now a mother of 3, has a full-time job with Spectrum, and in her words is "Happy to be Home."