Orlando's Pathways mental-health center is crumbling, needs a hand

Orlando's Pathways mental-health center is crumbling, needs a hand
Kate Santich Sentinel Staff Writer
June 29, 2008
Edwin Hernandez spent a year and a half living in a tent in the woods, battling clinical depression.Then he found a place where he could eat, wash his clothes, take a shower and connect with people who became like family.It also helped him get on medication, move into an apartment and earn his GED. Hernandez, 24, recently started taking interior-design courses.Pathways, an Orlando drop-in center for the mentally ill, has helped hundreds of people like Hernandez get their lives turned around.
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Pathways provides a place to call home

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Pathways sweeps homeless clients into an apartment within two weeks. And it never threatens to take that home away.
Honestly, it was hard to reconcile this with my own idea that nothing comes free and working hard and making something of oneself is completely the individual's responsibility, but I have become a firm believer in this approach for at least two reasons that leap immediately to mind. First, the financial impact to society overall is less when all things are considered in the costs associated with the Homeless who are on the street full time, since these folks traditionally use a disproportionate amount of expensive services for things regular folk are able to address in conventional and far less costly ways. Second, and perhaps most importantly, until one has shelter, all other things take a back seat, regardless of whether one must have those "other things" in order to find shelter in the first place.


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