Pathway Homes provides housing support services to adults with severe mental illnesses and/or co-occurring disorders, including substance abuse or intellectual disability. Pathway homes situate individuals with a history of homelessness in supported housing and provide supportive services to others, allowing them to retain their own housing. Pathway Homes provides non-time-limited housing. The program follows the Housing First model, an evidence-based practice that looks at housing as a resource, rather than a reward, for recovery. It is an approach to ending homelessness that centers on providing permanent housing first and then providing services as offered and accepted. The individuals the program serves are actively engaged in their recovery process. Pathway Homes launched the first consumer-directed housing program in Northern Virginia, a Consumer Advisory Council meets regularly to provide feedback to the agency, and Pathway Homes employs several individuals with a lived experience of mental illness as peer support counselors.