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’s Office of Housing & Community Development has released a COVID-19 Edition of its StreetSheet. This special edition sheet includes important community resources that are especially relevant during the public health crisis. Information includes resources for shelter access, prevention of homelessness, legal services, housing assistance, food access and where to[ Continue reading. ] With all that is going on in the word it might be easy to dismiss the importance of registering to vote, especially if you live in a shelter, your car, the woods or at a friend’s house. Just because someone might be experiencing homelessness doesn’t mean they can’t register to vote and then vote! Your[ Continue reading. ] The City of New Bedford has conducted its annual “Point In Time” (PIT) count that creates 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 is the development of the[ Continue reading. ] The City of New Bedford’s Office of Housing & Community Development has released the 2020 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 will be available for distribution once City of[ Continue reading. ] HUD awards $1.6 million in homeless assistance funding to New Bedford Article originally published in the Standard Times February 11.2020 NEW BEDFORD – The group tasked with combating homelessness in the area has been awarded a grant from the federal Department of Housing & Urban Development under its Continuum of Care program. The Homeless Service[ 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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STREETSHEET COVID-19 EDITION RELEASED!
Valuing the voice of those experiencing homelessness…through the VOTE!
2020 POINT IN TIME NUMBERS RELEASED!
2020 STREETSHEETS ARE AVAILABLE NOW!
HUD ANNOUNCES NEW BEDFORD COC AWARD!
