Project Spotlight: Families Living Together (FLT)*
Gwen is a 36 year old woman who was referred to the Families Living Together Program due to a history to substance abuse and a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder. She had experienced persistent familial abuse from her mother and older brother as a child and was involved in abusive relationships with partners as an adult. She had moved out of her mother’s home when she was twelve and began using substances as a preteen. Consequently, Gwen never returned home and was in and out of treatment programs and prison for most of her teenage and early adult years. She lived with friends on and off and became pregnant when she was 26 years old. The FLT Family Care Coordinator (FCC) met Gwen after she moved into an emergency family shelter with her two sons...read more
*To protect client confidentiality, names have been changed, and pictures are stock photographs.