Promoting the Voice of Consumers!
Homes for Families will hold a training event on March 25, 2009, 10-12:30, at NEFWC, 225 High St., Holyoke. The training will focus on: Promoting the voice of consumers Methods […]
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 […]
Springfield’s Monday Night Volunteer Street Outreach
Photos by Bob Stern / The Republican A group of volunteers pray for and with a man known to them only as Willie, center, in downtown Springfield. The volunteers are […]
