Horizon receives funds to help homeless adolescents in area

Horizon has been awarded $1,991,554 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to implement a program for homeless adolescents and young adults, ages 18 through 25.

This program, and others like it, will be paramount to changing the narrative of the 20,443 public school students in Virginia who experienced homelessness over the course of the 2018-2019 school year, as reported to the U.S. Department of Education (USICH).

To be eligible for this program, an adolescent must (1) have a mental health diagnosis, substance use disorder, or a co-occurring diagnosis, (2) be homeless or at a high risk of becoming homeless, and (3) reside in the Counties of Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Campbell, or the City of Lynchburg.

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