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Advocacy Network to End Family Homelessness > Background
The Social
Concerns Committee of Trinitarian Congregational Church in Concord
realized that congregation members regularly spent hours cooking meals
for the homeless, donating food for the homeless and very needy,
collecting warm clothing for poor people, and making financial
contributions to charities that helped homeless and at-risk families.
Still, we knew we wanted to address the root causes of family
homelessness. With the guidance of Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries,
the
Social
Concerns Committee organized an interfaith forum on family homelessness
in January 2005.
This forum highlighted the causes and problems of family homelessness
and ways to address the root causes of the problem. Follow-on workshops
and meetings provided detailed training in (1) homelessness advocacy,
such as campaigns of letter writing and calling your state lawmakers,
and (2) faith community - shelter partnering to meet the needs of a
family shelter. This forum drew about 100 concerned individuals to
Trinitarian Congregational Church in Concord in January 2005.
From this forum, the Concord Acton Family Homelessness Advocacy Network
was formed, to find effective ways of working to end family homelessness.
Renamed
recently the Advocacy Network to End Family Homelessness, the Advocacy
Network has carried out effective advocacy and community education on
key homelessness issues for three years.
CMM 474 Centre Street Newton, MA 02458 Phone: 617-244-3650
email:
info@coopmet.org Alexander Levering Kern, Executive Director:
akern@coopmet.org
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