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. If you are experiencing homelessness contact the following: Individuals call 1.800.HOMELESS (1.800.466.3537) from a 508 or 774 area code. 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). The HSPN has completed a review of its actions over the past year focusing on the work it undertook throughout 2019. A copy of the powerpoint is available here: HSPN ANNUAL SUMMARY.2019 You can now access a copy of New Bedford’s 2019 CoC Consolidated Application! The FINAL COC APPLICATION.2019 along with the APPLICATION ATTACHMENTS are available through these links. You can also access a copy of the PROJECT PRIORITY LISTING here as well! The CoC Application was reviewed and approved in a unanimous vote by the HSPN Executive Committee[ Continue reading. ] At its August 15, 2019 membership meeting, the New Bedford Homeless Service Providers Network (HSPN) voted to update its Policies and Procedures document (available here:HMIS POLICIES PROCEDURES.2019 FINAL) as well as its Governance document (available here: HMIS GOVERNANCE.2019 FINAL) that guides the HSPN’s use of data. These documents describe the way in which the organization’s[ Continue reading. ] (Approved by the HSPN membership on June 20, 2019.) The City of New Bedford’s HSPN membership adopted its CoC Community Priorities at its regular meeting of June 20, 2019. Those priorities are available here: 2019 COC COMMUNITY PRIORITIES The City of New Bedford’s HSPN has received, reviewed and voted on the 2019 Final CoC Rank and Order of Projects. the HSPN’s Performance Review Committee (PRC) comprised of HSPN members with no relationship–financial or otherwise–to any of the applicants for funding in the FY2019 round received, reviewed, vetted, evaluated, scored and ranked all applications[ 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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2019 IN REVIEW
2019 CONSOLIDATED COC APPLICATION
HMIS DOCUMENTS NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE!
COC COMMUNITY PRIORITIES for 2019
2019 RANKING of COC PROPOSALS
