Julie is 20 years old. When she first arrived at HomeBase Youth Services Outreach Center she had been homeless for three weeks. Unable to pay her monthly bills, she was evicted from her apartment. Before moving into HomeBase Youth Services' Transitional Living Program, Julie had been surviving by bouncing between motels and shelters. Her birth parents had lost custody when she was a toddler due to neglect. Julie was placed in multiple foster care homes until the age of five. At five years old, she and her biological brother were both adopted. Her history in so many different foster homes made it difficult for her to attach to her new parents. "It was very difficult for me to love and trust others," she explained.

Over the last 7 years, Julie has been to several therapists for various reasons. She was diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder and a personality disorder and had been prescribed multiple psychotropic medications. Julie also shared a history of being raped several years prior and had been in multiple dysfunctional relationships with men. When Julie arrived at HomeBase, she was no longer taking her psychiatric medications and she was no longer in counseling. She was very tearful when talking to a case manager about her relationship with her adoptive parents. She cried, "I did not feel loved at all."

Julie was admitted into the program and counseled on a weekly basis due to her severe depression. The issues she chose to work on were her relationship with her parents, her grief related to having a daughter and placing her for adoption and her dependency issues with men. As of today, Julie has been able to maintain her stability in the program. She is going on to her fourth month of residency and has held steady employment for most of this time. She has been saving and managing her money and has almost paid off all of her debts to her previous apartment complex for delinquent bills. Although Julie had been to multiple therapists and psychiatrists throughout her life, she said, "None of them have helped me as much as the therapist at HomeBase."

Julie has a much brighter outlook on life and is beginning to understand her past and how it has colored her current relationships with men and her peers. She's dealing with her dependency, and her feelings of abandonment by her family. Julie has begun trusting others and her sense of self worth and feelings of confidence are growing everyday. In therapy, she has been working diligently on her issues with her parents and seems to be making progress. "I am not so worried about that as much as I was before", she says. "I used to think about it everyday."