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November 16, 2009 - Dianne L. DePippo, LICSW, President & CPO of United Way of Greater Attleboro/Taunton is pleased to announce  United Way of Greater Attleboro/Taunton, Inc. has received a $350,000 grant from the Paul and Phyllis Fireman Foundation to administer and convene the South Coast Regional Network (SCRN) to End Homelessness to help divert, prevent, and eliminate homelessness and housing insecurities for individuals and families within the regions of Greater Attleboro, Greater Fall River, Greater New Bedford, and Greater Taunton. Ms. DePippo states, “The realization of this grant represents months of hard work and the success of a newly formed regional partnership focused entirely on issue of housing and homelessness”. She adds, “individuals and families have been temporarily housed in motels all over the state at an increasingly alarming rate and this grant allows our regions to better work together to communicate, coordinate, and intervene with a goal of permanent housing and stabilization.” Ms. DePippo mentioned that “the state of the economy has contributed to an already devastating concern and this financial award over the next 11 months (November 1, 2009- 9/30/10) will direct significant resources and dollars to assist individuals and families with housing and desperately needed support and assistance.”

Ms. DePippo asserts that “this grant will support increased resources to meet a critical need in our local communities and UWGAT would like to thank those at the Paul and Phyllis Fireman Foundation, Department of Housing and Community Development, Interagency Council on Housing and Homelessness, and the numerous partners (non-profit partners, municipal partners, local businesses, community representatives, faith-based partners, and other community stakeholders) who helped to make this possible. Our communities will be the better for it.”