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The department of Housing and Urban Development reports: On any given night, there are over 600,000 homeless in the U.S. 8,941 people experience homelessness in New Jersey Homelessness in NJ has decreased 12.4% since 2015 Sixty five year old Joseph became homeless in 1988 after a devastating fire destroyed his home and belongings of 25 years. With no family to turn to for help, he moved around finding shelter in the woods and abandoned buildings. For the past 10 years he called a small space under a bridge in Mercer County his home. This is where Joseph’s story begins to turn from tragedy to hope. Our Project for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) program first met Joseph in January of 2016. [...]

The opioid epidemic has devastated thousands of families across our nation, state and local communities. Today people across the country and around the world come together to raise awareness for Overdose Awareness Day. For many this is a day of grieving those we have lost, but also a day of hope, a call for further action to end the overdose crisis and a chance to share resources to help those suffering. At the national level, drug overdoses killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War in 2016. In Burlington County alone, overdoses from heroin and other opiates rose 46 percent from 2011-2016. Since last year, more than 165 people have died of an illicit drug overdose in the county, including [...]

Human rights are rights to which all human beings are entitled just because they are human, regardless of the society, culture or the times in which they live. In celebration of Human Rights month this December, the Oaks Ethics and Human Rights Committee invited staff and consumers from all programs and departments to showcase what Human Rights means to them by contributing to the Oaks virtual art gallery. Basic human rights give us the freedom to express our identity. Over 70 submissions were received from across the agency in a variety of forms including collages, paintings, papier-mâché and more. Below are just a few samples of the inspirational art projects - click here to see the whole gallery! For [...]