Berkshire Organizations Year in Review 2024
BY BRITTANY POLITO iBERKSHIRES.COM TUESDAY, JANUARY 7TH, 2025 It was a big year for ServiceNet, as it opened a new shelter in downtown Pittsfield and a farm. Smiles were all […]
ServiceNet Hosts Warming Center at The Pearl
BY BRITTANY POLITO iBERKSHIRES.COM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6TH, 2024 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Housing advocates are considering how to get people off the streets as temperatures drop. At the beginning of the [...]
Third Annual “Giving Tree” to Bring Warmth and Joy to ServiceNet Community Members
At the REACH Early Intervention Program and family shelters in Pittsfield and Greenfield, our staff works tirelessly to support hundreds of families during challenging periods of transition. [...]
How does ServiceNet help those who are unhoused find housing? We talk to Erin Forbush, its director of shelter and housing
BY CLAIRE O’CALLAHAN THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH, 2024 When it’s your job to think, talk and write about housing every day, you quickly learn that everyone in the […]
Pittsfield: Resource fair offers housing assistance
THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13TH, 2024 PITTSFIELD — The city’s Homeless Advisory Committee is sponsoring a Housing Resource Fair from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, Sept. 19, at Persip Park [...]
Getting Answers: Migrants evicted from overflow shelter after 5 days
BY OLIVIA HICKEY MONDAY, AUGUST 12TH, 2024 WESTERN MASS NEWS SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) – Changes to the state’s emergency family shelter rules went into place earlier this month, [...]
Opening doors for immigrants: UMass Dining’s Pam Adams finds work for Haitian community
BY ANTHONY CAMMALLERI DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE WEDNESDAY, JULY 17TH, 2024 AMHERST — On the 10th floor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus Center, Samuel Noel, a welder by trade, […]
Greenfield shelter leaders ponder impacts of potential funding infusion, stay limit
BY ANTHONY CAMMALLERI THE GREENFIELD RECORDER MONDAY, MARCH 12, 2024 GREENFIELD — Less than a week after the House voted to pass a spending bill allocating $245 million to the […]
New ServiceNet Shelter ‘The Pearl’ Opens in Pittsfield
BY BRITTANY POLITO iBERKSHIRES.COM THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH, 2024 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Pearl aims to provide a sense of community for folks experiencing homelessness while connecting them with [...]
‘We all need community.’ At The Pearl, Pittsfield’s new shelter, residents are making the space their own
BY MATT MARTINEZ THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH, 2024 PITTSFIELD — The Pearl, Pittsfield’s new shelter for those facing housing insecurity, is starting to look a bit more like home. [...]
