Page 28 - Homeless Program News Today

Items bought via the Giving Machines are dispensed elsewhere — in the form of diapers handed out to families at Boston-area homeless shelters, or a digital literacy class taught to a local formerly incarcerated person.

In 2022 the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office launched Services Over Sentences, a program funded to help lower-level offenders in the Mass and Cass area receive the support necessary to leave the area.

The solemn gatherings on the longest night of the year come amid a troubling rise in homelessness across Massachusetts.

A Mass and Cass drug dealer who had a "major presence" in the area has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after being convicted on numerous drug and gun charges.

The Healey administration and Boston Medical Center are in talks to downsize the development.

School of Nursing student Isabel Plakas has been named a Mitchell Scholar and will study addiction recovery at Trinity College Dublin next year

Des Nedhe Development, the economic development arm of English River First Nation and Team Drilling LP have si...

The alarming increase in firearm injuries to children and adolescents in the United States has taken an enormous mental and behavioral health toll on victims, survivors, and their families, with ripple effects on the economy and health care spending, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) have found.

It’s the beginning of the month. You know the drill. Boston.com assembled a list of November restaurant openings they’re most excited about.

City workers have handed out flyers explaining Boston's plan to remove tents on Wednesday from the "Mass. and Cass" area. Despite efforts to offer services, housing and storage to people in the encampment, some advocates remain concerned about what will happen once police sweep the tents away.