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Pittsburg highlights Pathways to Hope program; 68 court referrals since September 2023
Summary
City officials and health partners described 'Pittsburg Pathways to Hope,' a program launched in September 2023 to connect people experiencing homelessness and behavioral-health issues to IDs, medical and mental-health care, employment and housing; 68 people have been referred and 42% completed the program and had their cases dismissed.
At the Pittsburg City Commission meeting on May 27, city and partner staff described a municipal-court-linked program called Pittsburg Pathways to Hope that connects people who are unsheltered to medical and mental-health care, identification documents, employment help and housing referrals.
The program, launched in September 2023, was presented to the commission as a collaboration among the municipal court, Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas and Crawford County Mental Health.…
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