Finding a first job can be challenging for any young person, but it was especially difficult for the young men in Hart Community Homes' group homes. Already hampered by low self-esteem and other emotional challenges due to their experiences as abused and abandoned children, our earliest residents were rejected time and again when they applied for entry-level jobs. As well, some former residents who had aged out of the group home system returned to us with nowhere else to go. They were unemployed, hungry and essentially homeless.
