Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless Inc

A Bed for Every Child partners with public schools and other community organizations to provide free new twin beds for children in need throughout Massachusetts.

Currently, the Coalition partners with local community health care centers across Massachusetts to identify patient populations in need of critical housing, benefits, and support services.

The Big Kid Bed Initiative aims to identify low-income families with toddlers who need safe sleeping arrangements and education on the importance of sleep and other related resources.

Partnering pediatricians provide families with educational resources on the importance of sleep, and healthy bedtime routines, as well as a prescription for a "big kid" bed.

Currently, the Coalition partners with local community health care centers across Massachusetts to identify patient populations in need of critical housing, benefits, and support services.

The Coalition established a screening tool used to highlight housing insecurities a patient is currently facing.

Once a patient has identified a housing crisis, they are referred to the Coalition's Casa Project, where they receive critical advocacy and support services to help stabilize the housing crisis they are facing.

Teen CHANGE works with inner-city High Schools to provide at-risk, unaccompanied, and unstably housed youth with timely supports and resources to improve housing stability. Working to ensure the continuity of education, and promote overall well-being.

The Coalition has been committed to finding concrete solutions to preventing and ending youth homelessness and helping to set a coordinated community response.  The Teen CHANGE initiative creates an individualized service plan with the youth and families that will help them connect to all the resources and services allowing them to obtain housing or retain existing housing.  When needed, Youth Advocates assist students and families in accessing emergency shelter services as well.

Considered experts in our field, the Coalition provides critical advocacy and support services to households facing housing, homelessness, or benefit resource crises.

Our advocates are available Monday through Friday across multiple platforms, helping to navigate a multitude of complex housing, homelessness prevention, and benefits needs.

The Coalition for the Homeless is proud to call the city of Lynn our home headquarters.

Within the City of Lynn, far too many low-income men, women, and children are testing positive for COVID-19 and need the support to families quarantining, which is critical to combating this pandemic.
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Since May of 2020, the Coalition has been partnering with the Lynn Community Health Center to help provide patients that are testing positive for COVID-19 with wraparound support services, helping provide a family all the necessary supplies needed to fight and recover from covid-19.

Weekly, the Coalition provides each household in need with hot meals & groceries, as well as providing enough personal protective equipment, cleaning, and paper products for the month.

Additionally, with the help of P&G, the Coalition launched “Operation Liquid Gold" providing hand sanitizer to shelter providers and their guests, providing an additional and effective method of defense against COVID-19.

The Coalition will continue to provide these support services as the need continue to exist.