Editor’s Note: Although foster care placement is sometimes necessary to ensure the safety and well-being of children, research indicates that keeping families together is generally a better for children, parents, and the community. Working with the Corporation for Supportive Housing, RWJF launched Keeping Families Together in 2007. The program helps vulnerable families like Irma’s grow stronger, safer and healthier so that children—and their parents—might thrive. We are resurfacing this post in time for Children’s Health Month.
From too early an age, Irma faced a seemingly endless series of traumatic events that life threw at her as best she could—on her own.
But after a domestic crisis left her hospitalized, homeless, jobless, and in danger of losing her infant son, Irma finally received help from a supportive housing program that changed her life.
[For more on this story by Kerry Anne McGeary, go to https://www.rwjf.org/en/blog/2...ng-for-families.html]
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