February 2025

Hildebrand recently opened our first-ever Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Program, which will offer permanent housing and ongoing case management support for 13 families experiencing homelessness.

Nine of the units are located together in one building, and Hildebrand’s Tenant Support Manager will be on-site to support clients. This new program is funded through the Boston Continuum of Care, which is part of the Mayor’s Office of Housing.

Our first-ever Health Systems Navigator, Rebecca Elliott, recently joined the Hildebrand team! In this position, Rebecca is working to connect families in shelter with mental and physical health resources and care.

Rebecca is currently collecting data about the health issues that are most prevalent among families in shelter and building partnerships with providers who will help meet those health-related needs. For example, Hildebrand recently expanded its partnership with Spoonfuls, which provides healthy, fresh food for families.

Beyond its work directly with families, Hildebrand is committed to working with its partners to address family homelessness on a systems level. Hildebrand is part of the Massachusetts Supportive Housing Pipeline Coalition, which works to develop and advance a unified agenda for creating supportive housing to address chronic and high need homelessness in Massachusetts.

Hildebrand is excited to announce that we’ve been awarded grants from several new supporters! These new philanthropic partners include:

• The Saab Family Foundation, supporting Hildebrand’s Stabilization Services Program, which offers families ongoing support after they move out of shelter.
• Boston Scientific Foundation, supporting Hildebrand’s Health Navigation Program, which connects families with health resources and care.
• M&T Charitable Foundation, supporting all of Hildebrand’s programming.

We are pleased to announce that Claribel Baez, Family Co-Shelter Supervisor at Hildebrand, has been accepted to the Leadership Longevity Fellowship offered by New Sector Alliance and The Boston Foundation!

This fellowship is bringing together 12 mid-career nonprofit professionals from the Greater Boston Area for an innovative leadership development program focused on career and life design, health and wellness, and creating a supportive community of peers.

Hildebrand's partner MIRA Coalition has created and shared valuable Know Your Rights resources, including fliers, posters, recorded trainings, and Know Your Rights cards, which are available on MIRA’s website in a variety of languages. We encourage all in our community to review and share these resources.

In case you missed it, take a look at our FY24 Annual Report! Hildebrand worked with 386 families last year, offering shelter, comprehensive supportive services, permanent housing, and ongoing post-shelter stabilization services.

Check out the timeline of Hildebrand's growth over the past twelve years, as well as some highlights from the last fiscal year, including new partnerships and the launch of our new Permanent Supportive Housing Program.

Hildebrand’s mission is to transition families out of homelessness to safe, affordable, permanent housing while working to disrupt systems that lead to poverty and homelessness.