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Important news about transportation to vaccine appointments for all Masshealth and Health Safety Net Patients eligible to receive COVID vaccines.    And as of 2-18-21 people 65 or older, people with certain high risk health conditions (now including asthma) & senior housing…

  Registration: tinyurl.com/VaccineEquityNow

There is no SNAP Coalition meeting today! The next Zoom will be next Tuesday, 2/23 from 10-11:30 AM. Agenda and Zoom link to come later this week.    New - DTA Homeless Liaisons for each local DTA office area    Due to DTA's concerns and concerns expressed by this…

  Feb 15, 2021 Health Update on Vaccine Distribution   Today’s front page Globe story highlights the problems with the vaccine rollout plan for people with disabilities who can’t get to vaccine clinics. (Yes that is our esteemed friend & colleague Dennis Heaphy…

Feb 12, 2021 Health Update  Greetings everyone, Below are several updates & upcoming events for the next two weeks.  We will not be holding a Health Care Working Group meeting in February, stay tuned for a date in early March.  We are preparing for our annual Health…

Thanks to all who tuned in for this morning's Coalition meeting with FNS NERO and DTA. FNS offered to come back to another SNAP Coalition meeting to explain how "Disaster SNAP" works (when there are widespread natural disasters such as fires, tornadoes). DTA also offered to bring their…

  Some highlights from events in the last week...   1.      Vaccine distribution --hot off the presses today, Gov Baker's announcement of  Call Center to help people age 75 or older having trouble making appointments on…

To: SNAP Coalition  Fr: Vicky Negus and Pat Baker   Happy Friday! A number of resources, updates, and information below.    Also, we wanted to flag this powerful NBC nightly news piece on SNAP featuring Stacy Dean, the newly appointed USDA Deputy Under…

Hot off the press is a PDF version of an electronic letter that Department of Higher Ed (DHE) Commissioner Carlos Santiago sent last night to 94,000 MA low income college students. His letter also shares his personal story using SNAP as a college student for his family. The DHE electronic…

We are sharing with you the press release that MLRI released last night with its partners in the Massachusetts Protecting Immigrant Families MA-PIF) in support of President Biden's Executive Order below, and link to the Biden Executive…