Member News
Everyday, MHSA member agencies administer over 250 programs that serve 98% of all unaccompanied homeless adults in the state. We are proud to share their news and successes with you.
JUNE 2010
Community Justice Collaborative, Committee for Public Counsel Services, Greater Boston Legal Services, and Disability Law Center, Northeastern University School of Law Clinics invite you to a Social Security Benefits event.
Did Social Security stop your benefits or deny your application because you have an arrest warrent?
Good news!
You may be able to collect benefits! You may also be entitled to back benefits.
June 23, 2010
3-6 pm
Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center at
Roxbury Community College
1350 Tremont St. Roxbury, MA
(Roxbury Crossing T stop)
Presentation at 3 pm, followed by Q & A
From 4-6 pm, you will be able to meet with advocates to ask questions about how you, your family members, or your clients may be able to collect
benefits that were denied because of a warrant.
Click here for a flyer in English and Spanish.
You need to RSVP for the event to Renay Frankel at the Community Justice Collaborative (communityjusticecollaborative@gmail.com). A registration form is page three of the flyer document.
If you have questions about this event, please contact Renay Frankel at the email address above or (617) 603-1804 or Greater Boston Legal Services' Julia Foresman at jforesman@gbls.org.
SUMMER 2010
Save the Date
Holyoke Community College and Massachusetts Community Colleges Executive Office present:
Keys to Ending Homelessness
Conference Series
Conference #1: Social Security Disability Benefits
Friday, July 23, 2010
8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Kittredge Center at Holyoke Community College
Massachusetts Community Colleges Executive Office
294 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02109
617-542-2911
WINTER 2009
The Center for Social Innovation is looking to fill two job positions:
The Clinical TA Specialist will have responsibility for the following:
- Provide technical assistance in the area of co-occurring disorders
- Identify and research best practices, state of the art tools, training resources and expert consultants for use in providing technical assistance and training
- Write articles for publication for various audiences
- Train staff on cutting edge/best practices on an on-going basis
The SSH Deputy Director will have responsibility for the following:
- Develop and monitor SSH website content
- Assess technical assistance needs and develop recommendations for training
- Carry out quality assurance activities and assess impact of technical assistance
- Write articles for publication for various audiences
- Oversee and monitor technical assistance request and delivery process and data base
Please send resume and salary requirements to Jayne Samuda at jcsamuda@center4si.com.
Southeast Regional Network, High Point Treatment Center and NeBCOA
Southeast Regional Network is seeking a qualified person for Homeless Services Director to oversee Family Shelters and related housing services in Fall River, New Bedford, Taunton. Shelter experience/degree preferred. Must have strong leadership and organizational skills.
Duties include:
- Supervising program managers
- Program development
- Program coordination.
Candidates sould have knowledge of McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act and SHORE/HMIS reporting requirements. Send resume to Sandra at fax (508) 997-0765 or e-mail shelter.positions@hptc.org.
June 2009
Victory Programs and AIDS Housing Corporation Join Forces
Victory Programs, Massachusetts' leading residential substance use disorder treatment and transitional housing provider, and AIDS Housing Corporation (AHC), a nationally recognized leader in advocacy and technical assistance services addressing the housing needs of people living with HIV/AIDS and other disabilities announced today that they have merged. The Boards of Directors for both organizations unanimously approved this union. This merger will add AHC’s well known and respected housing related Technical Assistance services to Victory Programs’ suite of services.
Victory Programs and AHC have worked closely together over the past 18 years to advance their shared mission of bringing housing and supportive services to some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
Jonathan Scott will remain as Executive Director and President of Victory Programs. Joe Carleo will take on a new role within Victory Programs as the Director of Community Affairs. The organization will retain the name of Victory Programs.
Contacts:
Joe Carleo
(617) 927-0088 ext. 31
jcarleo@ahc.org
June 2009
Kit Clark Senior Services is currently looking for a Homeless and Housing Services Coordinator at the Medeiros Center for Change.
To learn more about the position, click here.
Contact:
John Livingstone
Kit Clark Senior Services
(617) 619-6961
ON-GOING EVENTS
A Summer with Socrates by Parker Lloyd
Some people have no place to call home; others discover home is not a safe place. Christine Covington and the old man she meets in Reno - who calls himself Socrates - have both learned these lessons the hard way. A Summer with Socrates will delight readers with its twists, turns and surprises from the opening pages to its eloquent ending.
About the Author
Parker Lloyd lives in Cambridge. In writing A Summer with Socrates, the author traveled to Reno to research homelessness and the history of gold mining. There, Lloyd met a homeless person of great wisdom, who inspired the character of Socrates. For the novel, Parker Lloyd draws upon the years of growing up on a farm in Alabama and attending the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
A Summer with Socrates can be purchased on Amazon.com.
A Welcome Respite: Resident Runs Medical Facility for Homeless
The Brookline Tab featured a story on Dr. Monica Bharel, medical director at the Barbara McInnis House, an inpatient, respite care health clinic for the homeless run by MHSA member agency Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program. The article, and especially the accompanying slideshow, portray the negative impact that homelessness has on health outcomes.
Click here for the article by Jessica Scarpati.
Click here for the slideshow.
Give US Your Poor Inititative
The Give US Your Poor initiative and Appleseed Recordings have released an awareness-raising music CD: Give US Your Poor: 17 New Recordings to Help End Homelessness. There are a number of New England artists who have experienced homelessness who contributed recordings. More details at: http://www.appleseedrec.com/giveusyourpoor/
The CD is available at cost to your homeless organization to use as a fundraising tool for you: holiday gifts to donors, board members, volunteers, or to sell and keep the money it raises. It features terrific homeless and formerly homeless musicians along with Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Keb' Mo', Jewel, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Pete Seeger, Michelle Shocked, Madeleine Peyroux, Dan Zanes, John Sebastian, Buffalo Tom, tenor Mario Frangoulis, Sonya Kitchell, spoken word pieces by actors Tim Robbins and Danny Glover, and Mark Erelli, the winner of an international songwriting contest on homelessness. See a video link of recording session with Natalie Merchant: http://nataliemerchant.com/BuriedTreasure/guyp/
Download the order form for homeless organizations here.
