Make a Difference as a Big Fix Neighbor
After a year in which the Big Fix went virtual due to the pandemic, the event is returning in a big way with work having already been done on four homes owned by seniors in Orleans. On Saturday, October [...]
Sign up for Housing Assistance’s 12th Annual Big Fix
John Goff (from left), VP of Goff Brothers Construction Company, Housing Assistance Director of Housing Production and Maintenance Keith Trott, Housing Assistance CEO Alisa Magnotta, and Mark Mathison take a break from a project in which they helped [...]
Case Manager Walks to Give Hope to Housing Assistance Clients
Prior to coming to Housing Assistance in the summer of 2018, Kevin Crawford worked as a firefighter and paramedic. Over the past two and a half years, he has worked at the Village at Cataumet and currently at our Scattered [...]
Family Continues Tradition of Purchasing Books for Children in Shelter
Children’s education was important to Susan Royer. She embraced this cause as the Vice President and Executive Director of Education and Research at Sesame Workshop. She also was passionate about supporting society’s most vulnerable. As an elder at the Presbyterian [...]
Donor Spotlight: Pat and Scott Barron
The drive from Orleans to Bourne is a little less than an hour. The distance hasn’t stopped Scott Barron from making that trek from his Orleans home, nearly once a week for the past 17 years, to volunteer at [...]
The Kindness Continues During COVID-19
By Margaret Peters, Administrative Assistant at the Village at Cataumet Working at a homeless shelter means coming to work every day. It does not matter if it is raining, if there is a blizzard, a hurricane or even a [...]
Send Happiness to Children in Shelter
Families in our four homeless shelters are reducing visitors and outside activities to limit possible exposure to coronavirus/COVID-19. You can help keep families happily engaged by sending a gift of new art supplies, games, and activities. Please ship donations (do [...]
New Home Gives Cataumet Client Hope for Future
Vanessa and her son Aamal moved into their apartment in January. They are looking forward to celebrating their first Christmas in their new home next month. At the beginning of June 2017, Aamal was born. His name [...]
St. Michael’s Church Strengthens Bond with Cataumet
Elisha Klokova (from left), Anastasia Klokova, Erica Kjendal, Emmelia Kjendal, Mary Kjendal, and Cecelia Kjendal with the back-to-school donations they dropped off for children at the Village at Cataumet. A group of parishioners from St. Michael the Archangel [...]
Cape Cod 5 Gives Shelter a Makeover
Cape Cod Five’s Joe Beasley (from left), HAC’s Maintenance Supervisor Keith Trott, Cape Cod Five’s Elaine Sweeney, and Paula Mallard, the facility director for the Village at Cataumet. Over the course of one day at the beginning of last month, [...]
Animals Offer Delight at Cataumet
A child at the Village at Cataumet pets Zima the cockatoo, one of several animals to visit the Bourne shelter. His name – Harold – was friendly enough. But his appearance, now that was an entirely different matter. [...]
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 [...]
Village at Cataumet Gives Back
Ryan Callahan and his fiancee Ashley O’Connor used the gift-giving program as a way to teach their children about the importance of helping others in need. “You matter.” That was the message case manager Laura Kiernan gave 17 families living [...]
Village at Cataumet Volunteers Exemplify Dedication
Falmouth’s Betty Bailey (from left), Robert McIntire, Nancy Ledger and Tanya White at a meal they prepared and served at The Village at Cataumet in December. Webster’s Dictionary may have its own definition of dedication, but at HAC it’s exemplified in [...]
11th Annual Shelter Cape Cod Telethon a Success
WCAI’s Sean Corcoran sings “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” with several students from the Nathaniel H. Wixon Innovation School. During the first hour of the 11th Annual Shelter Cape Cod Telethon, State Representative Timothy Madden made his way onto the festively [...]
HAC’s Shelter Cape Cod Telethon Aims to Fight Homelessness
Santa Scott with an attendee from last year’s telethon. […]
Making Science Come Alive at Village at Cataumet
Is it safe? Noah cautiously touches a live horseshoe crab held by science instructor Kim Torres. Officially summer did not start until June 21, but three days beforehand a group of more than a dozen parents and their children [...]
A New Playspace for Cataumet, Thanks to Horizons
Every four years, Horizons for Homeless Children “reinstalls” one of the children’s playspaces in the family shelters at Housing Assistance Corporation. So, this fall, Horizons staffers worked on the playspace at the Village at Cataumet, the family shelter in Cataumet.The [...]