What's in a reflection? Reflection is said to show the effect, character, or existence of something else. The doors we opened this past year throughout our community to provide non-time limited housing and supports to more than 500 individuals is a reflection of Pathway Homes' mission in action. It is also an illustration of how we partner with each individual on his or her road to recovery, growth and resilience regardless of each person's pace.

Pathway Homes' mission remains clear: to provide a broad base of the highest quality homes and individualized services for all adults with serious mental illnesses and co- occurring disabilities in the Northern Virginia region, and in Central Florida. As such we continue to expand these highly flexible and tailored services through community collaboration, charitable support, an expanded role of residents and their families, and a network of influential board members and friends.

In the spring of last year our Continuum of Care (CoC) received $1.2 million in grant funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide permanent supportive housing to chronically homeless individuals in Fairfax County. This was the largest HUD funding ever awarded to any CoC in Virginia and it was used to move 55 men and women from emergency shelters and the streets to their very own homes. This spring Pathways received a grant from the Virginia Department of Behavioral and Developmental Health Services in the amount of $1,407,576, awarded over two years, to house an additional 31 individuals in permanent supportive housing in partnership with Fairfax, Prince William, and Alexandria City Community Services Boards. As a first-time nonprofit grant recipient in our region, we were able to make a significant investment in stabilizing the lives of unstably housed, high frequency users of emergency rooms and hospitals, and create diversion opportunities for many individuals with severe mental illnesses in our community who would otherwise end up in jails.

Also this past year, our education and advocacy efforts were reflected in a visit from Virginia State Senator Creigh Deeds and the commission tasked with studying the provision and delivery of mental health services in the Commonwealth. The highly anticipated visit resulted in our ability to touch thousands and open even more doors. The visit, highlighting the consumer voice and Pathways' housing first, harm reduction and recovery-integrated model, was featured on the NBC 4 Changing Minds documentary and paved the way for Pathways to participate in the NBC 4 Health and Fitness Exposition a few months later.