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Family Reunification in Florida

The following SOAR success story was submitted by Traci Fuglestad, a SOAR Lcoal Lead and SOAR-trained practitioner from Sulzbacher in Jacksonville, Florida.

Paloma was experiencing chronic homelessness for over ten years after being discharged from a state mental hospital. She was a fixture outside a local news station and relied on the employees to provide her with food and water. A concerned police officer linked Paloma to the SOAR program with Sulzbacher. Paloma was approved for SSI benefits, placed in permanent supportive housing, linked to behavioral health services, and provided long-term care and intensive case management services. She has remained stable for over a year since the SOAR program connected her with wraparound services. 

An extra bonus was once she was stable on psychiatric medication, she was reunited with her family, from whom she had been estranged for over twenty years. They immediately traveled from out of state to reunite with her and have become a considerable part of her support system! 

The SOAR model is terrific at helping applicants obtain access to income, housing, and healthcare in a relatively short period of time. Often, the SOAR model helps to end homelessness and future episodes of homelessness by ensuring that long-term case management and medical services are in place after the claimants receive income and access housing.


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Sharing Our Successes stories are edited for brevity and clarity. All beneficiary names have been changed to protect anonymity.

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