We’ve made family support (which comprises a range of human services) a top priority. Poverty, homelessness, developmental disability, mental illness, domestic violence, unemployment — these issues are not limited to big cities and faraway places.
They exist in our own neighborhoods, in MetroWest Boston. Despite the apparent affluence of many of our towns, families are in need here. There were 30,000 people living at the poverty threshold in MetroWest in 2000, and the number is growing. This figure is greater than the entire population for nearly every one of the 33 towns in our service area.
If you are a nonprofit that offers human services, we encourage you to review our grant guidelines. Between 2002 and 2007, nearly 44 percent of our grants went to family support.
In 2009, we made the following grants:
This grant will help keep older people safe from abuse, neglect and financial exploitation, through large group trainings about elder abuse and neglect.
For more information visit:
www.minutemansenior.org.
This grant will support the Legal Services Program which provides legal assistance,
advocacy, and attorney and resource referrals to victims of domestic violence.
For more information visit:
www.thesecondstep.org.
This grant will fund trainings, presentations, and outreach materials to educate people about elder abuse and neglect.
For more information visit:
www.springwell.com.
This grant will support the Community Based Prevention and Advocacy Program which educates communities
about domestic violence and identifies resources to help survivors.
For more information visit:
www.reachma.org.
This grant will support a Framingham Educational Liaison to manage the educational needs of middle to high school-aged boys and girls,
designated as homeless by the state, who come to the Wayside campus for treatment for serious behavioral and emotional issues.
For more information visit:
www.waysideyouth.org.
This grant will fund an Advocacy, Benefits & Legal Services (ABLS) staff person to provide services to individuals and families at risk for
homelessness at Advocates Community Counseling (ACC) Outpatient Clinic in Marlborough.
For more information visit:
www.advocatesinc.org.
This grant will allow the organization to run and build the capacity of Furnishing Options, a new initiative providing
donated household goods, free of charge, to people in need.
For more information visit:
www.employmentoptions.org.
This grant will allow the organization to continue to offer free mediations in local courts by recruiting, training, and supervising volunteer mediators.
For more information visit:
www.framinghammediation.org.
This program will provide Framingham's Woodrow Wilson Elementary School families with a Community Resource Specialist
who can provide vital links to area employment, medical, housing, heating, nutrition and transportation programs.
For more information visit:
www.jfsmw.org.
This grant will assist low-income families and individuals at risk of losing their housing and those who seek permanent housing.
For more information visit:
www.mwoconnection.org.
This grant will help plan and launch COMPASS Community College Collaborative (CCCC) programming at
Mass Bay Community College in Framingham, serving homeless and at risk families.
For more information visit:
www.parentingresource.org.
This grant will support the Breaking Barriers program that provides participants with community English classes;
English instruction with hands-on exercises, group discussion and speakers on topics relevant to immigrant mothers; and a tutoring program.
For more information visit:
www.watchcdc.org.
