Thanks to the generosity of over 25 separate groups, businesses, and individuals, Housing Assistance was able to provide gifts to 298 individual clients, including 144 children, this past holiday season. “They were giving from their heart,” said Director of Community [...]
Opened in 1991, Angel House is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. At any one point in time, there are a maximum of 13 mothers at Angel House who are taking the steps they need to maintain [...]
Angel House Shelter Director Lin Rohr receives her first vaccination as part of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout in our family shelters. Dee VanLare had just finished an overnight shift at our Carriage House shelter at the end of [...]
Children at Angel House received an early Christmas gift in the form of a new playground that was installed at the Hyannis shelter in November. “This playground is such a powerful statement of care and compassion for our community,” said [...]
One day before her 31st birthday last December, Amanda* entered treatment to deal with her addiction to alcohol. For Amanda, she had reached her lowest point. “I knew my way wasn’t working,” she said. “I avoided the important things [...]
Osterville Men's Club Member Paul Ruane (middle) with clients at our Angel House shelter. The men's club recently donated new sneakers to the clients. When Tristen came to Angel House in December 2018, she had spent nearly [...]
Angel House Facility Director Lin Rohr greets Jim Laskey of the Massachusetts Marine Corps League. The back of Lin Rohr’s Housing Assistance van was filled with a variety of home goods that included candies, diapers, baby wipes, laundry [...]
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 [...]
Those attending the Barton Tomlinson Clinical & Group Space dedication included Angel House Facility Director Lin Rohr (from left), HAC CEO Alisa Magnotta Galazzi, Jim and Betty Ryan, Rob and Kim Nichols, and Cassi Danzl, HAC’s Director of Family and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Angel House Director Lin Rohr with Lily and Danielle Moore, president of the Sandwich Women’s Club. On an overcast Friday in the middle of January, stacks of brand new twin mattresses sat outside, next to a Budget rental truck parked [...]
Angel House clients give a special thank you to HAC CEO Rick Presbrey (right). In sheer numbers, it’s estimated that HAC has helped roughly 160,000 people over the past 42 years. That number is so large it is difficult to [...]
Playspace Activities Leader (PAL) Liz McKee makes a paper airplane with one of the children at Angel House in the newly redesigned playspace room by Horizons for Homeless Children. Opportunities for play are vital for the growth of any child. It [...]
In life’s journey, each person tackles obstacles in their own, individualized way. “Some will walk at a different pace. Some may skip for a while. Some may run. And some may walk backwards,” Lin Rohr said, inside HAC’s Hyannis offices [...]
