Horizon Behavioral Health Receives Nearly $2 Million In Federal Funding To Fight Homelessness & Addiction In Central Virginia

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).

The SAMHSA Grant to Benefit Homeless Individuals (GBHI) will be utilized to provide outreach and engagement, screening and same-day assessment, treatment, case management, peer . . .