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Action Alert
Please take a few minutes for the following action steps:
- Please contact Gov. Patrick in support of HHC’s Budget priorities. Click here for a sample letter to Gov. Patrick.
You can fax your letter to (617) 727-9725, or send it via the web by clicking here.
- Please e-mail a copy of your letter to bkramer@horizonsforhomelesschildren.org.
December 2007
New Bridging the Gap: Early Education and Care for Massachusetts Young Homeless Children report released by Horizons for Homeless Children. Click here to download.
When Horizons for Homeless Children was founded, we hoped that homelessness among children and families would be a temporary phenomenon. Unfortunately, family homelessness has increased statewide and nationally.
Today, there are more than 1,500 families and 1,300 children under the age of six temporarily housed in emergency shelters in Massachusetts plus about a thousand additional young children in domestic violence and teen shelters. All told, approximately 40,000 young children under the age of six will experience homelessness in Massachusetts this year. Nationally, over 500,000 children under the age of six are homeless in the course of a year.
In order to address this growing problem, since 2002 Horizons for Homeless Children has advocated with elected officials and other policymakers at the state and federal levels to improve the lives of homeless children and their families.
For further information regarding Horizons for Homeless Children's advocacy efforts and how you can get involved,
please contact Brad Kramer at bkramer@horizonsforhomelesschildren.org
or 617.445.1480 x314.
A Vote of Confidence from the Mass. Legislature
and Other Recent Highlights
More about our advocacy efforts…
Statistics
Press Releases
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JANUARY 2008:
Massachusetts Commission to End Homelessness Issues; Recommendations
for Ending Homelessness
DECEMBER 2007:
Click here for an important Advocacy update.
JULY 2007:
New data suggest that there are at least 96,000 homeless children in Massachusetts.
Read more.
Download the report, Bridging the Gap: Early Education and Care for Massachusetts Young Homeless Children
If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, please go to the Acrobat site to download the free software.
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