Barnstable Teen Has Passion for Helping Others
Perhaps it’s in her nature or perhaps it’s been ingrained in her by her mother Kathy Carter, a family advocate at Cape Cod Child Development, but either way Barnstable High School senior Allison Carter has long had a propensity to [...]
Monthly Angel House Dinners
Ron Winner (middle) and his wife Wendy (right) have helped organize monthly dinners at Angel House with the help of their friends. It started with a taco dinner in January and continued with a turkey dinner, with all the fixings, [...]
New Director Brings Expertise and Passion to Carriage House
Mindy Caron in front of HAC’s Carriage House family shelter in North Falmouth. I love the opportunity to help as many people as possible turn their lives around,” Mindy Caron said last month at HAC’s Carriage House shelter in North [...]
Osterville Church Gives Back to Angel House
Mary Beebe (from left), Anne Minor and Robert Bartholomay recently helped paint one of the rooms at Angel House as a way to give back to our clients. On the last Thursday in January, staff at HAC’s Angel House shelter [...]
St. Pius Students Knit Blankets for HAC Clients
HAC’s Mary LeClair (from left) with Maeve, Effie and Beatrice Martin. Maeve and her fellow St. Pius X classmates knit over 60 blankets for our clients in need. Every November, middle school students at St. Pius X School in Yarmouth [...]
Osterville Men’s Club Give Back to Angel House
Osterville Men’s Club President John Caney (from left) joined fellow members Paul Ruane and his brother Jim Ruane in donating their time to beautify HAC’s Angel house shelter at the end of October. At the end of October, Tim Moran, [...]
Donor Gives Message of Hope to Angel House Clients
Matthew Sullivan has connected with the work being done at HAC’s Angel House shelter. In December, he will deliver a holiday meal and gifts to the clients there for the second straight year. “I’m living proof someone can change their [...]
Toy Run Brings Joy to Children in Shelter
A procession of nearly 200 motorcycles driving from Buzzards Bay over the Bourne Bridge to HAC’s Carriage House shelter in North Falmouth is a sight to behold. And on the first Sunday in November, it happens like clockwork every year. [...]
Angel House Clients Build Life Skill Competencies
HAC HCEC Manager Cheryl Kramer (fourth from left) with several of the Angel House clients who took her most recent financial literacy classes. Last fall, a client at Angel House took a series of financial literacy classes taught by HAC’s [...]
Nutrition Workshop Brought to Village at Cataumet
Cooking Matters' Catherine Cleary (middle) with Margaret Peters (left), administrative support at The Village at Cataumet, and facility director Paula Mallard. At HAC’s family shelters, the goal is to not only house clients, but to give them the tools to [...]
Westwood Troop Donates Bikes to Village at Cataumet
Westwood Girl Scouts Tessa Scolaro (from left), Maggie Fahey, Jade Landolphi, and Laurel Barnett with HAC’s Paula Mallard. Bicycling is one of the simplest and most effective modes of transportation and thanks to the generosity of Girl Scout Troop 75006 [...]
Local Teens Connect with Children at Angel House
Volunteer Molly Rudman (left) plays with one of the children at HAC's Angel House shelter. Living in a shelter can be difficult for anyone, but it can be especially trying for older children, in part, because they don’t have the [...]
Sandwich Church Holds Donation Drive for Angel House
Marilyn Dexter (left) and Judy Coppola with a few of the donations that First Church in Sandwich donated to HAC’s Angel House shelter. Giving comes in all forms, shapes and sizes. This past spring, it arrived at HAC in several [...]
Marstons Mills Second Grader Spreads Joy to Kids in Shelter
Dawn Rosell with her son Jacob, who collected several boxes full of toys, books and stuffed animals for children in HAC's shelters. Inside Dawn Rosell’s car was a trunk full of Dr. Seuss books, puzzles, board games and stuffed animals. [...]
Barnstable High Grads Give Back to HAC
Barnstable High School grad Lauren Hansen (middle) with HAC’s Lynne Perry (left) and Jodi Keegan with a few of the books she collected and donated to children in HAC’s family shelters. When it comes to the country’s civil rights [...]
Cotuit Church Gives Back to Village at Cataumet
Mary Kjendal (from left), Mircea Dumitrescu and Lindsay Clough were a few of the parishioners from St. Michael the Archangel Antiochian Orthodox Church in Cotuit who organized an Easter-themed party for children at The Village at Cataumet last month. To [...]
Cornell Students Learn Alongside HAC Clients
HAC Volunteer Coordinator Mary Everett-Patriquin (left), HAC CEO Alisa Galazzi (third from right), and HAC Board Member Paul Melville (far right) with Cornell University’s Alicia Yang (from left), Piragash Swargaloganathan, Crystal Pascal, Luna Oiwa, Keenan Ashbrook and Sean Allen. At [...]
Chatham Store Knits Blankets for HAC’s Shelter Clients
A Great Yarn owner Mary Weishaar (from left), store employee Antonia DaSilva, knitter Jean Williams, WCVB cameraman Isaiah Bradwell, WCVB reporter Erika Tarantal, HAC CEO Alisa Galazzi, and knitter Barbara Gibson at last month's WCVB taping in Chatham. A handmade [...]
Former Shelter Client Serves as Example to Others
Victoria Chase (right) with her advisor at Cape Cod Community College, Dr. Colleen Coughlin. Dr. Coughlin said that Chase has served as an inspiration to her. If you had visited Cape Cod Community College on the second Wednesday of last [...]