Help Create a New Discharge Planning Book
WHAC is coordinating a new discharge planning book that will be a user-friendly guide to regional resources to help curb homelessness among people exiting hospitals, prisons, youth facilties, and shelters. Please contact us to get involved.
WHAC Leads Voting Effort
Over 200 homeless, formerly homeless, and people in social service programs voted
Local man casting his ballot on election day.
A new group of voters went to the polls in droves this year to have their voice heard as citizens in Worcester. Over 200 homeless, formerly homeless, and people in social service programs voted this past election cycle. The Worcester Homeless Action Committee led the effort, reaching out to dozens of small programs and large shelters across the whole city and helping coordinate their access to the vote, providing transportation, and encouragement from our core team. While not endorsing any candidate for office, WHAC sponsored a forum in October which attracted over 140 people, and asked pointed questions on housing policies that will directly affect the lives of Worcesterites living in programs. WHAC also published a voter's guide listing the candidates' responses in their own words to issues of housing and homelessness. This nonpartisan get-out-the-vote effort will have long lasting effects past the election. New leadership from people in the community who have experienced homelessness, or who have lived in transitional programs, has enriched the steering committee of WHAC, and vastly increased the membership. This newfound leadership and purpose will serve to sustain WHAC and a new direction for housing policy in the region. WHAC intends to maintain and nurture this new base for years to come, and to harness their collective energy to push for sensible and achievable housing policies. WHAC intends to make the effort regional, and will be reaching out to programs county-wide. Read More >>
The Worcester Homeless Action Committee (WHAC) is reviving its campaign to inform the general public on the issues of homelessness in Worcester, and to find sustainable housing solutions.
This fall we are focusing on Worcester's municipal elections drawing attention to housing and homelessness and forcing candidates to take these issues seriously and put them back on the city's agenda.
WHAC is also working to rebuild our membership base and have a strong group of people in the city who are concerned, aware, and will to take action.
Dismas House
Dismas House provides transitional housing and services to former prisoners. Visit the Dismas House website.
