Shelter Programs
Even under the most trying circumstances, EMPath is committed to helping families achieve long-term success.
Hastings House
Hastings House is the original emergency shelter of EMPath. Known to Brighton residents as a home for unwed mothers until the 1970's, Hastings House is now a congregate shelter for mothers and children.
Hastings House is EMPath's longest running program. Located in Brighton, Massachusetts, Hastings is an emergency congregate shelter that accommodates 58 families. Mobility Mentors work closely with families to help them co-invest in themselves and their children. Working together with residential mobility mentors, participants’ needs are identified and assessed, constraints are recognized and surmounted, and goals are created and tracked. These goals include securing employment, permanent housing, savings, and sustainable pathways toward economic self-sufficiency.
Horizons
Horizons is a small emergency shelter located in Mattapan.
Horizons has now transitioned to become functionally more like the Hastings House program. It currently houses eight families. Horizons helps participants successfully transition into permanent housing and lives of economic and personal safety and self-sufficiency using economic mobility coaching.
Hosmer Co-Shelter
Hosmer Co-Shelter houses two families in each unit, often times both families transferring from Hastings House.
The Hosmer Co-Shelter program consists of three multi-unit apartment buildings for 34 single moms and their child in 17 units in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston. Families are placed into Hosmer units via internal referral and transfer from Hastings House; two families are placed in each unit. While residing at Hosmer, participants work with their program mentor to develop personalized mobility goals based on their Bridge to Self-Sufficiency assessment. They are keenly focused on obtaining permanent housing, achieving increased employment, and targeted savings.
Scattered Sites
'Scattered Sites' refers to two separate EMPath programs: Stabilization and S.T.E.P.S. The participants of these programs live in units scattered across Greater Boston.
EMPath’s Stabilization program works aggressively to assist families who have recently moved out of an EMPath emergency shelter into permanent housing in neighborhoods throughout Boston. The families receive 12 months of state-subsidized services designed to help them establish their new homes and build economically stable and secure lives.
