Learn more about the people featured in our report at HELPFBMS.ORG/FYANNUALREPORT A FORALL FISCAL YEAR ANNUAL REPORT Board of Directors Letter from Leadership FY18 Accomplishments Success Stories Financials Donors BOARD OF DIRECTORS executive commtee Dr. Michael Kryzanek, Chair | Special Assistant to the President | Bridgewater State University Mary Catherine Finn, PNP, Vice Chair | Pediatric Nurse Practitioner | Village Pediatrics James Oslin, CPA, Treasurer | Gosule, Butkus & Jesson, LLP Joyce Hogan, Secretary |Program Coordinator | Valentine Street Program for Women dear friends & colleagu, A senior in declining health on a fixed income. A mother with young children fleeing an abusive relationship. A young adult pursuing a college education with nowhere to sleep. membs These heartbreaking circumstances, which you will read about in this report, represent the H. William (Bill) Adams, III, Realtor | Elizabeth Kim, Assistant Vice President of Coldwell Banker Claims | Arbella Insurance Group growing number of vulnerable individuals and families facing a housing crisis in our communities. Thanks to donors and volunteers like you, Father Bill’s & MainSpring has Michael Arkin, Project Manager | TDC Joyce Livramento-Young, Women been able to provide critical services and a pathway to self-sufficiency for these neighbors Empowerment Initiative for Change Corey Anne Beach, Project Manager | in need. Intrepid Francis J. (Jay) Lynch, III, Esq., Attorney Our work is centered around providing support that best meets the unique needs of each Lynch & Lynch Attorneys Al Becker, Chief Operating person we work with. We are constantly evaluating, assessing and adjusting our efforts, Officer/Executive Vice President | Jack Robert M. Pineau, President & CEO | and you have played a vital role this year in helping us implement a new model for serving Conway & Company, Inc. Electro Switch Corporation individuals and families struggling with, or at risk of, homelessness. This new model allows our dedicated team to deliver compassionate and tailored services with one goal: to end KC (Katherine) Caine, Boston University Rev. David Shaw, Pastor | Emmanuel School of Management | BU on Board Church of the Nazarene homelessness, not just manage it. Program Gwendolyn Whigham, Behavioral Health Together, we are reaching more households on the verge of homelessness, halting the Ronald Chapman, Facility Manager | Community Case Manager | Brockton eviction process and preventing homelessness. We are connecting people with our vast DHS, U.S. Coast Guard Neighborhood Health Center network of partners and providers to offer better alternatives to shelter. We are collaborating with local healthcare providers to ensure the complex needs of these Ken DeDominici, President | Churchill Vice President, CTP | South Jane Wing, vulnerable populations are being met in an efficient and cost-effective way. Linen Service Shore Savings Bank Together, we are ending homelessness. Rev. John E. Denning, C.S.C, President | Rev. Adolph H. Wismar, Jr., Pastor | Stonehill College Wollaston Lutheran Church Our incredible staff provides stability, support and services to people struggling with a Athina DiIorio, Owner | The Gourmet range of complex issues, such as domestic violence, behavioral health issues, mental Café Catering illness, and physical disabilities. With you by our side, we have taken key steps to move honary board membs these individuals from heartbreak to hope - and will continue moving forward - with our William Fitzgerald, Sr. Katrina Hartwell, Vice President, innovative, solutions-based approach to our work, creating a brighter future for our most Strategic Business Development | Deacon Gerald P. Ryan vulnerable neighbors. Jones & Vining sincely, Gwendolyn Whigham, a Behavioral Health Community Case John Yazwinski Michael Kryzanek Manager at Brockton Neighborhood Health Center, President & CEO Board of Directors, joined FBMS' Board of Directors during fiscal year 2018. Chair Gwendolyn, a former guest of MainSpring House in Brockton, overcame homelessness, addiction, and domestic violence to become a leader in her community. Page 01 | www.helpfbms.org www.helpfbms.org | Page 02 LISHMENT FY FISCAL YEAR ACCOMP S accomplishmenʦ In FY18, FBMS served HOMELESSNESS SHELTER & HOUSING 5,797 PREVENTION BASIC NEEDS people in cities and towns across Southern Massachusetts 366 families avoided 2,661 people (adults 345 households shelter due to and children) were moved from Prevention/ Diversion provided emergency homelessness to programs shelter housing 96% of families 220,553 meals were 99% of FBMS tenants assisted by Tenancy served to community stay housed Preservation Program members in need, at least 1 year remained housed mainly through volunteer power famili Shelteredindividuals 1,911 individuals 256 families were total, averaging 233 sheltered, including 420 individuals per night children, averaging 128 families per night 401 individuals exited Tenancy shelter to housing or other 64 families ended their Preservation systems of care homelessness and moved Program in into housing Attleboro, Brockton, Fall River, New Bedford, Plymouth and Taunton. VETERANS SERVED 66 354 BY FBMS PEOPLE SECURED JOBS *Fiscal year 2018 began on July 1, 2017 and ended June 30, 2018 Page 03 | www.helpfbms.org www.helpfbms.org | Page 04 Security check for income. Last year, families. Adding more housing is a key IT’S NEVER this led to Richard becoming homeless part of our agency’s strategic plan. In after he couldn’t find an affordable total, 99% of FBMS tenants remain TOO LATE TO apartment. housed for at least 1 year and 93% remain housed for at least 3 years. While at Father Bill's Place, our FIND HOME emergency shelter in Quincy, FBMS After six months staying at Father Bill’s staff helped Richard access veteran Place, Richard and Black Jack moved into Father Bill’s & MainSpring benefits he was entitled to and was their new apartment at Montello (FBMS) is seeing a able to get him housed at Montello Welcome Home Again. Richard can rest significant increase in the Welcome Home Again, FBMS’ newest easy knowing that he and Black Jack have number of elderly facing permanent supportive housing a safe, supportive place to call home. a housing crisis. Over the development in Brockton. past 5 years, the number As more elderly continue to seek of elderly (ages 60+) The apartments at Montello Welcome housing assistance in our community, coming to our emergency Home Again are among the more than we’re fortunate to have supporters like shelters in Quincy and 500 permanent supportive housing you making sure our most vulnerable Brockton has increased units currently operated by FBMS for neighbors get the help they deserve. by 52%. formerly homeless individuals and We’re seeing more elderly, many on fixed incomes, being priced out of their homes as housing costs continue to rise across our region. And as a growing number of rest homes and other systems vetans of care close their doors in elds Massachusetts, organizations like FBMS are filling the gaps to provide refuge, housing, and hope to our elderly. 252 52%52% 354 Elders served by 5-year increase5-year increase in in elderly Richard (pictured at left), a Veterans FBMS shelters for elderly populationpopulation at FBMS at Marine Corps veteran, just wants shelters for individuals assisted by individuals FBMS shelters for FBMS programs to live out the rest of his days individuals comfortably in his own space and with his service dog, a pug named Black Jack, by his side. in Richard, who is 81 years old, 1 2 153153 suffers from depression and a Elders at FBMS Elders in FBMS 20% number of serious physical shelters have a housing, an 118% 5-year reduction ailments, including asthma, physical disability increase over 5 years of veterans prostate cancer, and an aortic population at aneurysm. He is unable to work FBMS shelters for individuals and relies on his monthly Social F Page 05 | www.helpfbms.org www.helpfbms.org | Page 06 SEEKING COMFORT SEEKING SAFETY Finding an apartment that’s not No man, woman, or child should only affordable but also accessible ever have to live in a home where can be incredibly difficult for they feel threatened. someone living with a physical Thanks to your support, FBMS was able to disability. It’s especially provide safe shelter to more than 500 challenging with limited income. domestic-violence survivors during fiscal Thanks to you, Father Bill’s & MainSpring year 2018. (FBMS) is able to provide supportive and FBMS helps people like Samantha, who accessible services to make sure nobody with a knew it was time to leave her boyfriend last disability is sleeping on the streets. year when he verbally degraded her and Our programs have helped people like Maria, threatened her with violence. Samantha and who at the age of 40 was in a terrible her two young children, ages 2 and 1, fled motorcycle accident that altered the course of for help. F F F her life. It resulted in her having most of her left The state placed Samantha and her kids in leg amputated, forcing her to rely on crutches an emergency family shelter operated by to walk. Father Bill’s & MainSpring (FBMS). While For more than a decade, Maria was able to there they received safe shelter and famili remain relatively independent despite her support. FBMS helped connect her with disability. That changed last year when Maria funds to enroll her kids in daycare, helped disabili and her 13-year-old granddaughter, Breidy, of pay for her classes to become a certified whom she has custody, became homeless nurse’s assistant, and developed a plan to when they couldn’t find an affordable exit shelter and find permanent housing. apartment that was accessible for her disability. Every day, families come to our doors at 649 They abruptly left their previous apartment 366 FBMS with a unique set of challenges. As People with a physical because the structure was unsafe and Maria Families avoided shelter with disability served by part of our strategic plan, we have begun help of FBMS felt her health was at risk.