What's new at MLS

A few updates below. Thee most critical and important is Monday’s event at the State House: Join MLRI & MA Coalition for the Homeless Monday 11-Noon in front of the State House to uphold shelter for children and families   We urge you to join us on Monday to call on the Governor…

ICYMI - tomorrow is the LAST SNAP Coalition meeting before the 4th Tuesday in September.   Just popping this email from Friday back into your inbox with the Zoom link   Coalition meeting Tuesday, July 23 - last Coalition meeting until September! Our next Coalition meeting…

A brief note to flag that DTA Connect has been experiencing technical difficulties. Many folks may not have been able to access DTA Connect yesterday or this morning. DTA has an alert posted on Mass.gov/DTA about this.  The DTAConnect online applications for SNAP and cash benefits…

Greetings all, hoping you had a rest filled 4th of July break. We want to share some important updates and reminders as summer rolls on. We also attached DTA’s July updates to the Advisory Boards, which covers a number of the things below. Our next Coalition meeting will be on Tuesday,…

Hi Everyone, At last week's meeting we heard about PA Prior Authorization and were cut short hearing about "referred eligibles." Attached & set out below is more information about both.   PCA Prior Authorization. Attached are a few of the charts we showed you at last week's…

Greetings Coalition members.  We have some SNAP updates and information on upcoming events. Our next SNAP Coalition meeting is Tuesday, March 26th from 10 to 11:30 AM.  Agenda to follow next week.  How to get help from DTA & new option to report changes on…

A few announcements below. Unless there is breaking news, we likely won't send another eblast until the New Year. The last year has been one of many challenges - but we have also seen time and time again that this Coalition is a powerful force in making change!! We look forward to our…

We hope you are gearing up for some relaxing and safe time with family and friends. We have a couple of items to share with you before the holiday break the next two weeks. If you are working with Haitian immigrant families, see important information below. Our next SNAP Coalition meeting…

Thanks to those of you who participated in Wednesday's Health Care Working Group meeting.  We're passing on info related to several of the agenda items at that meeting: 1. Extension of reply deadline on EOHHS Equity RFI to Jan 15, 2022 2. Copy of Kara's slide deck on…

This eblast has a number of announcements and information for Coalition tomorrow - please note the changed Zoom link for Coalition and use this link tomorrow. Note this is the LAST Coalition meeting for 2021. There is NO Coalition the week of December 20th.  The Coalition will…