A little more than two weeks before the start of winter, students enrolled in the Plymouth Police Academy stopped by Housing Assistance to donate over two dozen coats and blankets for the region’s homeless. Plymouth Police Academy Winter Coat [...]
Working with homeless individuals can be difficult work. There are many obstacles to getting them housed that must be overcome: lack of identification and references; difficulty staying in contact and completing paperwork; and sometimes physical and mental health issues. [...]
Over the course of nine months in 2018, when Debi was pregnant with her third son, she was homeless. She gave birth to him on September 26 of that year. “Three weeks after he was born, I said, ‘I [...]
In January, we celebrated one year of service to homeless youth and young adults between the ages of 14 and 24 on Cape Cod. Housing Assistance’s Youth Homeless Services Program is funded through a grant from the Massachusetts Executive Office [...]
Zelda Bergstrom (left) talks with Stephanie, one of the clients in our Youth Homeless Services Program, who we were able to place into permanent housing. For five months last year, Stephanie* lived in the woods of Cape Cod [...]
With frigid temperatures set to arrive over the next few days, Housing Assistance is seeking the following new unused items that will go to keep homeless individuals safe this winter. All donations can be dropped off at our offices at [...]
The Chandler Travis Philharmonic performs at the 2018 Cavalcade / Courtesy of Joe Navas Photography (www.joenavasphoto.com) More than 20 of the Cape’s most talented musicians and performers will come together once again to spread holiday cheer and [...]
As we prepare for winter, Housing Assistance is seeking your help to provide items that will keep homeless individuals on Cape Cod safe over the next few months. We are partnering with several homeless outreach organizations to collect necessary items, [...]
Lawrence holds one of the tomatoes he helped grow this summer. The garden has provided him with a sense of productivity. Most mornings or evenings, you can find Andrew watering the garden behind his Hyannis house. It’s an [...]
Dorothy Battles had driven by the historic property on Old Main Road in North Falmouth, countless times. She often told her husband Kenneth, the former co-owner of the Sea Crest Beach Hotel, it was her dream home so much so [...]
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 [...]
Homeless Outreach Specialist Derick Bussiere was one of four HAC staffers to assist the region’s homeless during last month’s stretch of frigid temperatures. The start of the new year brought with it one of the longest stretches of sub-freezing weather [...]
HAC’s new outreach specialist Shannon Tracy with her colleague Deborah McDonnel’s dog Ida. Tracy moved to Cape Cod in September. Working with the homeless can be challenging, but HAC’s newest outreach specialist Shannon Tracy understands those difficulties are [...]
Several times a year the Dennis-Yarmouth Ecumenical Council for the Prevention of Homelessness (DYECH) offers an easy opportunity to keep families in their homes and off the streets. […]
HAC Case Manager Deborah McDonnell has been assisting Falmouth residents in need since July as part of a Falmouth Human Services grant to serve those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. In July, HAC began a [...]
Derick Bussiere, a former housing search specialist at the NOAH Shelter, has served as HAC’s homeless outreach specialist since last June. Bussiere started working at HAC in April 2014. No great deed has ever been accomplished alone. It’s a fact [...]
Holding a microphone in her right hand and a handwritten essay on a piece of paper in the other, Autumn Rivieccio’s words came out slowly and softly. “When I slept in my car one night with my mom and dad [...]
Many people were surprised a few months ago when the Boston Globe came out with a comprehensive nationwide study of the causes of homelessness. Turns out, lack of affordable housing is a bigger factor than poverty when it comes to [...]
Thirty-two years ago, a representative from a committee within the Town of Barnstable came to my office to ask if HAC would agree to open a shelter in Hyannis for homeless individuals. I remember the moment well. I didn’t want [...]
