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Pathway Homes Hosts Help the Homeless Community Walk

Come join Pathway Homes at our annual Help the Homeless Community Walk and raise awareness

for the homeless suffering with symptoms of mental illness in our community.   Did you know

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that over 30 percent of the homeless individuals in Fairfax County live with serious mental illness

everyday without a stable home, access to needed medications and hope?  Many are hurting

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everyday.   Pathway Homes provides hope to the 428 individuals we currently serve; unfortunately,

there are another 565 individuals on the wait list for our services.   You can help by registering

to walk with us and those that we serve on November 1 at 1:00pm at 4113 Stevenson Street,

Fairfax, Virginia.

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