Notes on Family Group Meeting held Tues. Feb 10
The Family Group meeting was held on Tuesday, February 10. We had great attendance. Thank you to everyone who came. Your participation and ideas helped significantly as we face decisions […]
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 […]
Next Step for REACH for Chronic Individuals: Gathering Information
As explained at the introductory REACH meetings in three of the four sub regions–Springfield, Berkshires, Hampshire-Franklin and Holyoke-Chicopee-Westfield (Note: H/C/West meeting is scheduled for Feb. 18th)–we are attempting to establish two working […]
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 […]
Increased Emergency Shelter Grant Funds Expected for Prevention & Rapid Re-House
Both House and Senate economic recovery bills include $1.5 billion for one-time grants to state and local government, to prevent people from becoming homeless or quickly re-house those who become homeless. The […]
State Deficit in Shelter Account; DTA Proposes Restrictions on Eligibility
DTA projects that there will be a $3.36 million budget deficit in the EA account, which funds family shelter. As a means to address the deficit, DTA has proposed restrictions […]
