Everything is settling into a routine at the Emergency Shelter in Franklin. Many of the residents at the Emergency Shelter are beginning to receive state services that were, initially, slow to start. This means that our efforts will slowly begin to move from emergency meeting of needs and service gap-filling to long-term support that will [...]
The population at the Emergency Shelter in Franklin is stable. Here's the quick update regarding volunteer opportunities and donations. The After-School Program has been on a two-week hiatus due to parent teacher conferences and school vacation. It is scheduled to resume next week. If you'd like to volunteer for this program, you must first be [...]
The SAFE Coalition has completed their initial round of need assessments on all families placed in the emergency shelter. Over the past two weeks, The Franklin Interfaith Council has been working to fulfill those initial needs while also continuing to sort donation that continue to trickle in. We are at the point now where we [...]
It feels like we are hitting our stride this week! The Emergency Shelter in Franklin is near capacity, the After-School Program has begun, and we've worked most of the kinks out of our process for assessing needs, collecting donations and distributing them. The After-School Program is up and running. In its first offering, it served [...]
The Emergency Shelter in Franklin is nearing capacity. As of Monday there were over 90 families, representing roughly 300 people, including approximately 100 children placed in the shelter here in Franklin. To view current numbers, view the dashboard setup by the Franklin Department of Public Health. This past week has been busy as we updated [...]
All the donations for the Emergency Shelter are being stored at the Franklin United Methodist Church. We need volunteers to help sort the donations. Individual volunteers can signup by clicking the date/times below (you will be redirected to registration software provided by the Franklin United Methodist Church). If you are attempting to signup a group, [...]
Thank you for being patient as we took a brief pause to evaluate our process to make sure that we are asking for donations people actually need. There have been a lot of disparate community asks for donations and many of those asks overlapped which created a glut of some things and a scarcity of [...]
To those who #LOVEfranklin: Here’s your quick update RE: the emergency shelter in Franklin. A few more families have arrived. The Franklin Interfaith Council (FIC) is beginning to think long-term hospitality and distribution of donations. All persons placed at the shelter are being signed up for SNAP benefits, Mass Health, and school quickly. The Town [...]
To those who #LOVEfranklin: Nearly two years ago you signed onto a “A Call to Our Community,” written by the Franklin Interfaith Council (FIC) in response to several incidences including targeted hate speech and vandalism against members of the LGBTQIA+ community, racial slurs at public events, and anti-Semitic graffiti. The FIC issued a call to [...]