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 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. ] The City of New Bedford’s Office of Housing & Community Development has released the 2023 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). The New Bedford Light released a video about those experiencing homelessness in New Bedford. From the streets, encampments, emergency shelter and the overflow shelter, life for those without housing is hard. The video is available here. Overview prepared by Catholic Social Services, Inc. Catholic Social Services Inc. is providing emergency shelter through a Cold Weather Overflow Shelter Project to unsheltered homeless at a local motel (with a total of 15 units set aside and a total capacity of 30 beds for the overflow shelter). This will be offered when there is no vacancy[ Continue reading. ] Please consider joining the City of New Bedford’s Continuum of Care, the “Homeless Service Provider Network (HSPN),” today. Now is your opportunity! The HSPN 2023 MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT 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[ Continue reading. ] The City of New Bedford’s Homeless Service Provider Network (HSPN) announces that the nomination period for the annual Sister Rose Homeless Community Leadership Award, established in honor of the late Sister Rose Ellen Gallogly, affectionately known as “Sister Rose,” is now open. Nominees must be a current or previously involved member of the HSPN)[ Continue reading. ] The MA-505 CoC-Approved Consolidated Application is now available! The MA-505 (New Bedford) Continuum of Care has, through a vote of its membership, accepted the 2022 CoC Collaborative Application and CoC Priority Listing. As a result, this material, as well as the project submissions is now available here for public review. You may access each of[ Continue reading. ] The DRAFT CoC Consolidated Application is now available! The Draft MA-505 (New Bedford) Continuum of Care’s 2022 CoC Collaborative Application and CoC Priority Listing are now available for review at the following links: The DRAFT 2022 COLLABORATIVE APPLICATION and PROJECT PRIORITY LISTING This material is being made available through this website from Monday, September 19,[ Continue reading. ] 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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2023 Data is Now Available!
2023 STREETSHEETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE
New Bedford Light Releases Video on Homeless
COLD WEATHER OVERFLOW SHELTER – WINTER 2022-2023
2023 HSPN MEMBERSHIP IS NOW AVAILABLE TO YOU!
SISTER ROSE HOMELESS COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AWARD: 2022 NOMINATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED!
2022 COC – APPROVED APPLICATION PACKAGE TO U.S. DEPARTMENT of HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT
DRAFT CONSOLIDATED APPLICATION and PRIORITY LISTING
