Starbucks Gives Back
Josh Leonard (left) and Dillon Probert of the Mashpee Starbucks which is collecting donations for the Stuff A Stocking Holiday Drive along with the Hyannis Starbucks. […]
Finding Hope at Angel House
Angel House Facility Director Lin Rohr (left) listens as Beth shares her story of what led her to the shelter and how it has helped her turn her life around. Last summer, when Beth had nowhere to turn, she entered [...]
From Homelessness to Hope to Housing
Moriya Smith with Labouré College President Maureen Smith at her graduation last May. Moriya is now studying for her bachelor’s degree. Almost 20 years ago, when Moriya Smith was only a teenager, she became homeless, fending not only for herself, but her [...]
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 [...]
HAC Supports Homeless During Arctic Blast
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 [...]
Donor Spotlight: Paul Hebert
Matt Pitta (left), co-host of last month’s Shelter Cape Cod Telethon, interviews longtime HAC supporter Paul Hebert about the region’s housing issues. When Paul and Carolyn Hebert arrived on Cape Cod in 1981 with their three daughters Aimee, Mary and [...]
HAC’s Homeless Outreach Program Celebrates One-Year Anniversary
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 [...]
Editorial: Working with our Legislators to Tackle the Cape’s Housing Challenges
State Senator Julian Cyr (second from left) with HAC CEO Alisa Galazzi (from left), Director of Leased Housing Cindi Maule, Director of Family and Individual Services Cassi Danzl and Chief Operating Officer Walter Phinney. I have been spending my first [...]
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 [...]
Cassi Danzl Leads Family and Individual Services
Cassi Danzl joined HAC in January. She oversees the agency’s Family and Individual Services Department which includes housing search, homelessness prevention, HAC’s financial literacy workshops and homeless outreach efforts throughout Cape Cod. One of the first things visitors to Cassi [...]
Cape Family Goes From Homelessness to Housing
Last month, HAC’s Al DiMuzio (right) donated a recliner to Richard as a way to provide stability to his living situation. On the first day of the new year, 57-year-old Richard and his two teenage boys became homeless. “That’s when [...]
HAC Gives Homeless Couple a Fresh Start in New Home
Georgina outside the Hyannis cottage that is now home to her and her husband Jim. In the last month that HAC ran NOAH, Georgina and Jim represented one of the final success stories in the agency’s 32-year history of operating [...]
Shelter Telethon Puts Face to Cape’s Housing Issues
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 [...]
Grant Helps House Homeless on Martha’s Vineyard
Karen Tewhey, HAC's HCEC housing counselor on Martha's Vineyard. What can $81,658 buy on Martha’s Vineyard? Housing for seven of the island’s homeless. That is exactly how HAC will use that money, which was awarded to the agency last month, [...]