Communities Reaching Out to Support Homeless Families

Communities Reaching Out to Support Homeless Families

Eleventh Annual Forum on Family Homelessness

Sunday, March 1, 2015, 2:30-4:30 PM

First Parish in Bedford, 75 Great Rd., Rt. 62, Bedford Center.

Sponsors: Advocacy Network to End Family Homelessness & Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries.
Co-sponsors: Episcopal City Mission, Citizens Housing & Planning Association (CHAPA), Mass Coalition for the Homeless, UU Mass Action Network

Avg Daily EA Shelter Hotel CaseloadNever have there been more homeless families in Mass. Each night, nearly 3,100 families are in shelters and 1,850 more families are in motels, with serious long-term effects on the social, psychological and physical health and development of children.

Doors open at 2:00PM with light refreshments. View exhibits and chat with representatives from sixteen participating homelessness prevention and service programs and housing organizations. Program begins at 2:30PM. Come learn how others in our communities are helping struggling families who have no place to call home.

Program:

Homelessness Comes to Bedford: How a Community Responds:
Ann Guay,Volunteer Coordinator, Bedford Housing Task Force, and Sue Baldauf, Director, Bedford Youth & Family Services

Secure Jobs Partnership: Providing families with resources to obtain and maintain employment.Sher Omerovic, Manager, Secure Jobs Partnership, Jewish Vocational Services, Greater Boston

Eliminating Barriers to Employment: Jessica Cohen, Director, Secure Jobs Program, Connie Martin, Associate Executive Director for Energy & Community Resources, Community Teamwork, Inc., Greater Lowell

CHALLENGES OF MASS HOMELESSNESS PROGRAMS AND Key 2015 Advocacy Issues: Exa Mendez, Community Organizer/Legislative Advocate, Coalition for the Homeless
How State Government Can Help: Comments from area lawmakers.

http://www.endfamilyhomelessness.net/2015-forum/

For more information about the Advocacy Network to End Family Homelessness, contact Carl Miller, Coordinator, at NormanCMiller@comcast.net or 978-369-3755