• an afternoon shelter
  
  
• a living room
  
  
• a phone booth
  
  
• an internet café
  
  
• a canteen
  
  
• an emotional haven
  
  
• help with job and housing searches (preparing resumes, completing applications, looking for and sharing leads)
  
  
• use of our phone number and mailing address
  
  
• counseling support for personal issues and referrals as necessary
  
  
• tv and refreshments; books, videos and music

and more. Over the past eighteen months the Day Center has become a true success story, blending in among existing agencies to fill an unmet need, and growing to become an essential resource for almost 300 guests in the first quarter of 2005 alone. They come to us each day, often 60 strong: men and women, young and old, many ethnic backgrounds, from all parts of Massachusetts and beyond. We send them back out with some of their needs met, and with renewed courage and vigor to tackle the rest. With our help they find jobs, homes and more.