News

Dismas continues committment to Crystal Park

Dismas House and the College of the Holy Cross partnership

Almost Home Program closes, plans for a new Farm project in the works

St. John's and Dismas partner to clean up University Park.

Dismas staff address Worcester panhandling issue

View Slideshow of Dismas 20th
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Dismas partners to create homeless housing

Articles from the Telegram & Gazette featuring Dismas House:
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• Program aims to help ex-prisoners stay clean, sober and employed
• Dismas lead effort to restore vandalized park
• Dismas/Rebuilding Worcester Start Community Greenhouse
• Dismas guys help restore Tom Asch Little League Field and build Hector Reyes House
• NECN interviews Dismas staff and residents about the impact of criminal records.
• The Father Brooks House
  Dismas House is proud to announce the new Father John Brooks House!
• Dismas House of Massachusetts is being held up as a model prisoner re-entry program for communities nationwide to imitate.
• "Bound for home: Ex-inmates find hope at Almost Home" - T&G Article
  Read full article (PDF doc 81k) (or here for Word doc 45k).
• "Dog Invaluable to Local Woman" Featuring Almost Home. Read T&G Article (pdf file 49k) (or here for Word Doc 71k)
• "From jail to job: Ex-inmates say CORI system, society don’t give them a chance". Read T&G Article (rtf file 12k).
• "Progress can entail lonely road" column by Clive McFarlan on Dismas Resident's story. Read T&G Article (rtf file 12k).
• Dismas House Targets Homelessness: Colleen Hilferty to serve on City Manager's Task Force, Dave McMahon joins Steering Committee for the Health Foundation's CHAIN Initiative. Read T&G Article (rtf file 8k).
• Dismas House receives funding for third project in Greater Worcester. Download article here (rtf doc 48k).
• Further coverage of Dismas Co-director, Colleen Hilferty, Receiving T&G Community Vision Award Read full article
• Colleen Hilferty Receives T&G Young Leader Award
• A strong link in the chain: an article featuring a Dismas House volunteer
• Dismas House plans affordable housing for graduates
• Almost Home offers new sense of hope
• Dismas House lands Dukakis Ex-gov. to speak at fund-raiser
• Optimistic volunteers tend community garden
• A garden of their own: Community distressed that plot up for sale
• Community blooms with thanks: Neighborhood buys land that hosts garden
• Dismas House to mark 15 years
• Restored Dismas House dedicated: Transition home for ex-prisoners
• Expansion plans a reality: 'Adoption' campaign adds space to Dismas House
• Crime and ... Dismas House wows Russians
• Plan is halfway home: Inmates would live at former sheriff's house
• Re-entry, ready or not: After release, a new struggle

Other News:

• "Back in the World: Out of jail, it takes everything they've got to set up a new life" by Chet Williams. An article in Worcester Magazine featuring Dismas House.
• NEWSLETTER: View the online Spring 2006 version!
• Almost Home On the Radio
• From Catholic Free Press: They're "Almost Home"
• Assistance Dogs Trained at Almost Home
  Chris and John, two residents of Almost Home, are with the project's new dogs, Seymour and Sundi. These dogs are being trained to be assistance dogs for disabled people in Massachusetts.
  See enlarged photo and read more.

"Dismas House is cost efficient and money well spent" State Representative John Binienda

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