Keeping Families Together

http://www.csh.org/KeepingFamiliesTogether

CSH's (Cooperation for Supportive Housing) Keeping Families Together initiative provides supportive housing to vulnerable families and children in an attempt to keep children from being removed from their families and put in the foster care system.  Child welfare systems often feel there is no other choice but remove the children when the family struggles with issues such as mental illness, substance abuse or severe medical issues, but foster care can bring more traumatic stress to the children the system is trying to help.  CSH paired with "housing providers, those involved in homeless services and child welfare agencies to create supportive housing models that keep families together". Supportive housing models offer housing as well as other supportive services such as mental health, substance abuse and medical care to vulnerable families. The Keeping Families Together pilot program was implemented in 2010 in New York, and CSH is trying to bring it to more communities.


Here is the link to the video to get a better idea of what Keeping Families Together is all about:

https://youtu.be/39Cf_SrhxfM