NPR on Home & Healthy for Good
NPR’s Neal Conan reports on Housing First: Home and Healthy for Good Fixes Homelessness. The summary, from NPR’s website: August 3, 2009 Dr. Jessie Gaeta co-founded the Home & Healthy […]
Project Homeless Connect 2009, Greater Springfield Region
Pastor Greg Dyson’s daughter, Jessica, has made a video to be used to recruit volunteers for the 2009 Project Homeless Connect. The video uses photos from last year’s event. The […]
Housing First in Northampton
Today’s Republican profiles ServiceNet’s Housing First initiative in Northampton. The article quotes one of the residents, Don: “This is the first place I’ve been in where I have my own space,” […]
Cell phones & minutes for low-income people
This site has previously provided information on free cell phones and minutes for low-income people. Today a Republican article notes that the program is under-used by people who are eligible. The […]
Report: Creating Supportive Housing in Western Mass
The Western Massachusetts Non-Profit Housing Developers Group recently engaged a consultant team to look at opportunities and challenges to creating permanent supportive housing in western Massachusetts. A key strategy in […]
More on designing prevention, diversion & rapid rehousing programs
I’ve become aware of another helpful study for programs designing prevention, diversion and rapid rehouse. The attached draft study of time-limited and shallow rental subsidy programs comes from the National Alliance […]
Eliot 2009 Statewide Homeless Conference June 12
Eliot Community Human Services is hosting its 17th annual homeless conference on June 12, 2009, in Worcester. Agenda and registration form here.
Soccer as a Means of Supporting Stability
Yesterday the New York Times reported on a homeless soccer team: Homeless Team Roots for New Life Through Soccer. The idea of a homeless soccer team initially made me nervous, because […]
