EA Shelter Placement/ Location/ Transfer

The TES-EPR-1 form has been revised to better capture the information needed when a family is placed into shelter. The revised TES-EPR-1 form is attached to this memo and will be available statewide.

Field Op Memo 2006-42 informed TAO staff of process for transferring families from one shelter to another if the second shelter could provide more services the family needs. Due to an increase in homeless families across the state, this procedure is no longer feasible.

Shelter use has reached capacity, so families are to be placed in hotels or motels when necessary due to lack of shelter space. This memo provides procedures for doing this.

This memo obsoletes Field Operations Memo 2005-35 and notifies TAO staff about the process for tracking shelter placements beyond the 20-mile limit. The Housing and Homeless Services (H&HS) Centralized Placement Unit’s (CPU) must notify the EA family whose shelter placement is beyond the 20-mile…

A Shelter Transfer Request Form has been designed to facilitate the transfer of a homeless family to a shelter that can deliver more appropriate services. The form was created to give shelters the ability to initiate a transfer should they determine that a family can be better served at another…

The TES-EPR-1 form is being revised to facilitate a smoother transition to the designated shelter. The form includes additional information that will allow the shelter to better prepare for the family’s arrival.

Given the increased focus on registered sex offenders living in Massachusetts communities and the safety threat that such persons might pose in a family shelter, the Department has formalized its Emergency Assistance (EA) shelter intake and placement policies. Effective immediately, TAO staff will…

An EA household needing temporary emergency shelter must be placed within 20 miles of their “home community” unless they request otherwise or such shelter is unavailable or inappropriate. When a temporary emergency shelter is not available within the 20 mile limit, temporary emergency shelter will…

As of March 24, 2003, all family shelter information will be in BEACON. BEACON will have a resource list of all EA shelters. The specific shelter information will be associated for each EA AU in shelter. This information will enable the Department to identify where each EA AU has been placed…

Process and preferences for placing homeless pregnant or parenting teens in shelter.

EA shelter recipients must be provided with written notice before transfer to another shelter.