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2014 Annual Report: When One Door Closes, Another Opens when one door closes another opens a year of transitions, tragedy and triumph annual report 2014 Our mission Victory Programs opens doors to recovery, hope and community to individuals and families facing homelessness, addiction or other chronic illnesses. Our dedication Victory Programs proudly dedicates our 2014 annual report to: Gary Sandison, the winner of our 2014 Peter Medoff Award for his leadership in the field of HIV/AIDS. Gary’s long compassionate history of advocacy to those living with HIV/AIDS goes back to his role as a founding board member of AIDS Action Committee. In 1993 acting Mayor Thomas Menino appointed Gary to serve as his AIDS Policy Advisor. Gary worked with the Boston Public Health Commission to implement important policies and services including the first Pilot Needle Exchange Program, condom access in the Boston Public Schools and serving as the Mayor’s representative for 20 years on the essential Ryan White Planning Council. Gary is a true hero for his 30 years devoted to the care and core services of everyone living with HIV/AIDS; we are proud to always call him a friend. And… Eastern Bank for its continued commitment to Victory Programs as a year-long corporate sponsor and its generous emergency support to assist in the resiting of our Joelyn’s Family Home. Less than a month after Boston’s Long Island was evacuated, the Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation was one of the first to respond to the tragedy by making a $10,000 donation to Victory Programs to assist with unanticipated financial expenses. Eastern Bank is truly there for our community. Photography by Greig Cranna Design by Flatfive Design, www.flat5design.com victory programs 1 dear friends of victory programs To open a group home can take years. It’s a complex odyssey—a special marathon—requiring a labyrinth of detailed planning, long-term commitments, conviction, patience and stamina. It involves many individuals and scores of organizations; community organizing; neighborhood hearings; massive fundraising; some begging; definitely borrowing and always the endless convincing of skeptics and naysayers as to why it is the most essential priority. To build a group home, as Kip Tiernan, founding board member of Victory Programs, said: “All you need is plain, stubborn hope. ” To finally succeed in opening a group home provides the deep satisfaction of reaching the mountaintop. The willpower to open a group home, and the individuals courageous enough to see the process through, have a special drive emanating deep to their core. The power of hope. For nearly four decades, Victory Programs has opened doors of recovery and hope to dozens of group homes; specialized housing; transitional care; treatment programs; community centers; shelters and unique fundamental community services. We have opened homes for addicts and alcoholics; homes for those with HIV/AIDS; homes for homeless mothers and their children; homes for the most marginalized, neglected, isolated and ignored. A group home can take years to build, and it can take one hour to end or destroy. To suddenly lose a group home is devastating to the foundation of a non-profit. It’s an arrow to the heart. In 2014, against all odds, we opened two new state-of-the-art group transitional homes on Chamblet Street in Dorchester for 14 homeless families—young mothers and children living in motels, cars or on the street—families desperate only for the simple dream: a stable and permanent place to live—a home of their own. Also in 2014, on October 8th, with the sudden closing of Boston Harbor’s Long Island Bridge by the City of Boston, and the immediate evacuation of all treatment programs sited there, Victory Programs lost all access—in a single hour—to a vital group home for 47 homeless women. Joelyn’s Family Home, Massachusetts’ largest group home for women in addiction treatment, a program that took years of planning, millions of dollars and the support and help from a multitude of supporters and allies to build, now stands empty and inaccessible. They say when one door closes, another opens. We know from decades of experience how heartbreaking it is to close one door, and we know how heart healing it is to open another. Victory Programs has the experience, strength and willpower to do what it takes to open a group home, or rebuild one that is lost. Most of all, at Victory Programs’ foundation and core is the special drive called “plain, stubborn hope.” Jonathan D. Scott, President & CEO David J. Bancroft, Chair of the Board victory programs 1 victory programs14 Cambridge Downtown Boston community map1 16 Back Bay 13 Fenway South End 14 6 South Boston 10 15 Boston Harbor 18 14 4 Islands Cambridge 17 Downtown 9 5 Boston 9 2 Jamaica Plain Roxbury 1 16 3 7 Back Bay Cambridge 13 Downtown Dorchester Boston Fenway South End 1 12 6 16 South Boston 11 Victory Health Victory Housing Back Bay N 8 13 1 Mattapan 10 Boston Harbor 2 9 Fenway South End 18 8 4 Islands 3 102 6 Quincy 17 South Boston 9 11 9 5 2 4 Jamaica Plain 12 Roxbury 5 3 13 10 6 7 Boston Harbor 18 14 4 Islands 7 Dorchester 17 15 9 9 5 2 16 Jamaica Plain Roxbury 12 17 11 Victory Health Victory Housing 3 N 18 7 1 8 Mattapan Dorchester 2 9 8 3 102 Quincy 12 11 11 Victory 4Health Victory Housing 12 N 5 8 13 1 6 Mattapan 2 9 14 7 8 15 3 102 Quincy 16 11 4 17 12 5 18 13 6 14 7 15 16 17 18 2 annual report 2014 victory programs 3 Chamblet Family Home Chamblet Family Home Chamblet Family Home Mayor Thomas M. Menino speaking at the 2013 Celebration of Life Thanksgiving Dinner. Cherishing Mayor Menino's Life Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s death on October 30, 2014 was the loss of a true friend. During the course of his career as a public servant, Mayor Menino was a staunch supporter of all residents of Boston, including those struggling with homelessness, addiction and chronic illnesses. Mayor Menino helped us cut the ribbon on vital new programs like Victory Housing on Warren Street, our first permanent housing program for the chroni- cally homeless and our Portis and Joelyn’s Family Homes, recovery programs for women. His dedication to the fight against HIV/AIDS has been well chronicled, and his presence at our Boston Living Center’s Celebration of Life Thanksgiving Dinner was always an exciting event for our guests. Mayor Menino’s stewardship of bringing urban farming to Boston, and his role in making our ReVision Urban Farm a dream come true, continue to bring healthy food to Boston residents. Most of all, Thomas Menino was beloved for his charm, wit, kind- ness and caring. His dedication to Victory Programs will forever remain in our history and hearts. 2 annual report 2014 victory programs 3 when one door closes, another one opens Since our founding in 1975, Victory Programs has always evolved to meet the needs of our communities—from opening our recovery homes to people living with HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s to expanding our family shelter programming in 2014. This past year has brought numerous changes to our programming—one by design and one by circumstances beyond our control. Doors Opening… Door Closing… The recent surge in family homelessness that has In October, when the City of Boston closed the occurred in Massachusetts has resulted in more than Long Island Bridge, the only access point to 2,100 families being housed in hotels and motels Boston’s Long Island, we were forced to evacuate due to the lack of permanent housing options and Joelyn’s Family Home—one of our essential shelters at full capacity. Given the desperate need, treatment programs, providing addiction recovery Victory Programs rehabbed two vacant facilities services for up to 47 women at a time, and on Chamblet Street in Dorchester to grow the the only addiction recovery program in Boston capacity of our family shelter programming. This designed for women living with HIV/AIDS. year, we celebrated the opening of Chamblet Family The evacuation was swift, unexpected and Home, welcoming thirteen pregnant and parenting devastating. Victory Programs’ amazing mothers and their young children to these two new community of supporters have responded to sites. Chamblet Family Home provides our families this challenging situation with donations, calls with a safe, comfortable living environment for to various political representatives and letters them and their children while they focus on finding to local papers as we begin the formidable work, continuing their education and securing more process of locating a new home site in Boston. permanent housing. As we proceed into our 40th anniversary, Victory Programs will continue to evolve, innovate and adapt to the changing needs of our community, ensuring that everyone has access to hope, health and housing. 4 annual report 2014 victory programs 5 when one door closes, Victory Programs another one opens Responds to Family Homelessness in Massachusetts Since 2013, Victory Programs has increased its family shelter capacity by 47% In 2015, Victory Programs In 2014, is projected to house In 2013, Victory Programs 43 Victory housed Programs FAMILIES housed 37 (ReVision: 22; FAMILIES Portis: 8; 30 (ReVision: 22; Chamblet: 13) FAMILIES Portis: 8; % (ReVision: 22; Chamblet: 7) 90 Portis: 8) SUCCESS RATE 5.7% placing The increase of homeless families our clients in Boston in 2014 in family (1,168 to 1,234) housing Number of Family Shelters operated by Victory Programs 3 2 4 annual report 2014 1 victory programs 5 victory programs a year in review 25 Years of Giving Thanks Every November, the Boston Living Center gathers people living with HIV/AIDS and their loved ones for a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner to celebrate the joy of life.
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