Provider Community

Meetings & Trainings
Homes for Families hosts a variety of meetings and trainings throughout the Commonwealth. Our meetings bring together a variety of stakeholders including shelter/service providers and formerly, currently and at-risk families to discuss issues affecting family homelessness. Our trainings educate and mobilize shelter/service providers for public policy advocacy.

Advocacy Liaisons
Advocacy Liaisons partner with Homes for Families in our public policy advocacy. They receive action alerts; attend state house advocacy events; and contact their legislators throughout the budget cycle. Advocacy Liaisons are typically front line staff or program directors who are interested in assisting us with our goal of ending family homelessness.

Housing First
The Housing First philosophy has gained nationwide recognition as a new model for ending homeless in The United States. It emphasizes the readiness of families to move into permanent housing; decreasing emergency shelter stays to 90 days; and moving families into permanent housing quickly with support services.

Take Action
Homes for Families public policy advocacy depends on the dedication and passion of the shelter/service provider community to ending family homelessness. To this end, we encourage those who work with homeless or at-risk families to join our action alert network, register to vote and build a relationship with their legislator. Homes for Families offers support and guidance to any organization who is thinking about getting involved.

Support Consumer Involvment
Homes for Families believes the voices of families who have experienced homelessness must be heard at all levels of program development including planning, implementation, management and evaluation; embedded in the work of every stakeholder from local shelters to the governor’s office. Homes for Families offers support and guidance to all organizations who want to involve consumer voices.