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Welcome to the New Bedford Homeless Service Provider Network website!

The City of New Bedford coordinates a comprehensive response to homelessness using a “Continuum of Care” approach through its Homeless Service Provider Network [HSPN].

The HSPN meets regularly to address the most pressing issues around the complexity of homelessness and works toward ensuring every individual and every family has access to appropriate, sustainable safe, decent and affordable housing.

If you are interested in working toward this end, join with us and check out the work the HSPN is doing in New Bedford.

EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2020 PLEASE CONTACT THE FOLLOWING:

IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS OR ABOUT TO BE HOMELESS:

Individuals

If you are in need of emergency shelter, please contact the shelter directly.  For individual men and individual women, please contact the Sister Rose/Grace House shelters at 508.997.3202.  For those fleeing domestic violence, please contact the New Bedford Women’s Center’s 24 hour hotline at 508.999.6636.  For unaccompanied youth ages 18-24, please contact Killians shelter at 774.206.6445.

Families

All families must call the DHCD Telephonic Intake line at 1.866.584.0653.  (Only the state can intake families; this cannot be done locally so please refer to the number provided here).

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR                    ASSISTANCE WITH HOMELESS    PREVENTION OR PERMANENT    HOUSING OPTIONS:

Please contact the New Bedford Coordinated Entry System through Catholic Social Services at 508.999.4757 Monday-Friday 8.30am – 5.00pm.

The HSPN is committed to the concept that each person is entitled to live in dignity and is focused on the elimination of homelessness in New Bedford.

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2022 Data is Now Available

The City of New Bedford has completed its annual “Point In Time” (PIT) count creating a census of those individuals and families experiencing homelessness within the city, both sheltered (living in emergency or transitional housing) and unsheltered (on the streets/in places not meant for human habitation). Concurrent with that has been the development of the[ Continue reading. ]

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IMMIGRATION 101 for SOCIAL SERVICE PROVIDERS

April is Fair Housing Month so the HSPN asked Rebecca Eissenova, Legal Director with Catholic Social Services in Fall River, to share her presentation on Immigration, particularly as it intersects with the work homeless service providers undertake.  The resulting presentation, a copy of which is provided here, offers a great overview into this complicated subject.[ Continue reading. ]

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EARLY UNSHELTERED STATS for 2022

Although typically a complete Point In Time (PIT) Count and Housing Inventory Chart (HIC) is presented on this website, in advance of that publication this year, an early snapshot of the unsheltered statistics collected in February 2022 has been published in a brief PowerPoint.  Check out the early numbers from the street count here: UNSHELTERED[ Continue reading. ]

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2022 HOMELESSNESS INFOGRAPHIC

Interested in a quick snapshot about the New Bedford Continuum of Care?  Here’s an infographic that highlights some information, current as of 2022:  2022 HOMELESSNESS INFOGRAPHIC

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CITY WINS FEDERAL HOMELESS ASSISTANCE FUNDS!

Mayor Jon Mitchell announced that the City of New Bedford has been awarded $2,090,727 in homeless assistance funding by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), as part of a competitive grant process under HUD’s Continuum of Care Program.  Read the complete PRESS RELEASE here. 

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2022 STREETSHEET IS AVAILABLE!

The City of New Bedford’s Office of Housing & Community Development has released the 2022 StreetSheet. Go to the HSPN Resource Page to access a copy of the sheet in English, Portuguese and Spanish.  Hard copies of the StreetSheets are also available upon request by contacting Jennifer.Clarke@newbedford-ma.gov.  (Copies are available while quantities last).

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COLD WEATHER OVERFLOW SHELTER – WINTER 2021-2022

Overiew prepared by Steppingstone, Inc.  Steppingstone Inc. is providing emergency shelter through a Cold Weather Overflow Shelter Project to unsheltered homeless at a local motel (with a total of 25-30 units set aside for the overflow shelter).  This will be offered when there is no vacancy at either of the Catholic Social Services’ (CSS) Shelters. The following[ Continue reading. ]

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2022 HSPN MEMBERSHIP NOW OPEN

If you’re interested in joining the City of New Bedford’s Homeless Service Provider Network (HSPN), now is your opportunity!  The 2022 HSPN Membership Form is available HERE in a convenient fillable format. Simply complete the application and either mail it in to Jennifer.Clarke@newbedford-ma.gov or drop it in the mail to the HSPN c/o the City[ Continue reading. ]

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  • Home
  • About Us
  • Meetings
  • Organization
    • Structure
    • History
    • Executive Board
    • HSPN Bylaws (PDF)
    • Agencies
    • Membership
    • HSPN Planning
    • HSPN Accomplishments
  • CoC Funding Competition
    • 2021 CoC Funding Competition
    • 2020
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
  • Resources
    • StreetSheets (Homeless Assistance)
    • Federal, State & Local
    • For Agencies
    • For Veterans
    • Acronyms, Etc. Guide (PDF)
  • News
    • HUD News
    • Annual CoC Funding Competition
    • Local Events
    • Press
    • Publications
    • HSPN Meeting Presentations
  • Contact