Regional Coordinator Job Description: Seeking Input
The Western Massachusetts Interagency Council on homelessness met on Friday February 20th as scheduled at 10am. The group discussed the current draft Regional Coordinator job description as an agenda item. […]
Visit from the Lt. Governor, Bob Pulster
Lt. Governor Tim Murray and Massachusetts Interagency Council on Housing and Homelessness Director Bob Pulster were in Northampton today for a kick off of the regional initiative to end homelessness. The […]
Report on Federal Homelessness Programs & Legislation
The Congressional Research Service today released the report Homelessness: Targeted Federal Programs and Recent Legislation. The report includes information about homelessness funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, signed […]
WMIC Meeting
Friday, Feb. 20, 2009, 10 am to noon at Massachusetts Behavioral Partnership, 489 Whitney Ave., 3rd floor, Holyoke.
Getting close to final budget! Please comment.
The Family Group met today (Yasmin will post meeting notes later), which provided the Core Group with more detail and guidance for the budget. The Core Group met late this […]
New Approaches to Reducing Family Homelessness: Implementation Strategies
Homes for Families will host a conference on Implementation Strategies on March 12, 2009, 9:30 am to 2:30 pm, at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester. We’ll post more information […]
Rural Homelessness Capacity Building
Faith- and community-based organizations serving homeless populations in places with under 25,000 population may apply for up to $15,000 in capacity building funds from the Housing Assistance Council. Deadline is […]
Are You in the Network? Should You Be?
The Western Mass Homeless Coordinating Network isn’t a membership organization; it’s a loose association of agencies working to address homelessness in our region. Agencies in the network are working to improve […]
