As a person who is committed to helping working families on a path to economic security, you are as disturbed as I am by the threats to programs Somerville families rely on. Will you invest today in local efforts to protect these programs?
The following individuals were elected as representatives of the low-income community: Francis Latanowich, Nanci Baren, John Ciampa, Kate Byrne. They will be seated on the CAAS Board of Directors at its Annual Meeting to be held on Tuesday, January 24, 2017.
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You may already know that CAAS provides comprehensive preschool and wraparound services to hundreds of families each year through Head Start. You may not know that CAAS acts as a safety net for these and other families when they are in crisis.
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The Santiagos, a family of 9, were referred to HPP by Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services in June of 2016. They received notice of eviction and were seeking assistance with their housing search and in negotiating with their landlord for more time to secure new housing.
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CAAS’ community outreach team has been working on a tenant rights action project at the Clarendon Hills housing project in West Somerville. The Somerville Housing Authority has partnered with private developers to redevelop the site, which would temporarily displace the 216 families that currently reside there
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The Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in collaboration with CAAS and ABCD Head Start, was awarded a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to implement the Communities for Healthy Living (CHL) program in Head Start programs in Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville.
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