Massachusetts
Contributors
We are deeply grateful for the support of the following volunteers from Massachusetts, Boston Scientific, Liberty Mutual, and Baker McKenzie who were each essential in creating the Homeless Youth Handbook - Massachusetts.
A special thanks to Jake Hofstetter and Melanie Rush for their leadership in spearheading this project. Our gratitude is further extended to the many legal experts throughout Massachusetts who were essential to producing the content in this Handbook. Those experts include individuals from: Attorney General's Office, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, the Massachusetts Bureau of Substance Addiction Services, Casa Myrna Vasquez, Center for Law and Education, Citizens for Juvenile Justice, Children's League, the Committee for Public Counsel Services, the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, Fenway Health, Greater Boston Legal Services, Healthcare for All, Justice Center for Southeast Massachusetts, KIND, Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, UMass Boston, Y2Y Network.
We are especially grateful to the youth who participated in focus groups to share their insights and perspectives on the Homeless Youth Handbook - Massachusetts.
We are proud to share that the work product resulting in the Homeless Youth Handbook - Massachusetts is the culmination of thousands of pro bono volunteer hours contributed from upwards of 120 volunteers.
Stephanie Barlow | Carla Figallo | Judith Liben | Gregory Powell |
Laura Botero | Stephanie Finklea | Thomas Lockhart | Lori Powers |
Michelle Botus | Paul Flynn | Kate Lowenstein | Corey Prachniak-Rincon |
Kathleen Boundy | Sarah Fox | Jimmy Lucas | Alexandra Rickart |
Tara Brewer | Mia Friedman | Xuan Nghi Ma | Laura Rincon |
Lisa Brogan | Hannah Frigand | Martha Mayorga | Liz Rittinger |
Vance Brown | Laura Garcia-Cancino | Maya McCann | Xena Robinson |
Christina Bullock | Peter George | Mac McCreight | McKenzie Rude |
Justin Burgess | Lizbeth Ginsburg | Andrea McCullough | Jamie Sabino |
Jackie Burke | Carlo Gnetti | Kathy McGrath | Wenham Shen |
Yitian Cai | Lindsay Grim | Jennifer Mead | Emily Sherwood |
Carmen Chan | Sanna Hakansson | Tom Mela | Jeremy Slotnick |
Rebecca Chang | Meghan Hamilton | Paula Melendro | Amy Rachel Smith |
Nicholas Chaves | Scott Hodgdon | Tammy Mello | Arlene Snyder |
Kathryn Cohen | Heidi Holland | Lina Maria Mendez | Athziri Sotodela-Torre |
Nadine Cohen | Suzanne Hove | Jessica Mendez | Faith Stachulski |
Hanna Coleman | Raquel Howard | Katharine Miner | David Strauss |
Mary Pat Cormier | Marisa Howe | Asjah Monroe | Solomon Suleymanov |
Regine Corrado | Kim Humphrey | Andy Musgrave | Erica Sullivan |
Jessica De Loureiro | Brian Jenney | Miguel Naguit | Jennifer Sunderland |
Patrick Devlin | Sankalp Kandaswamy | Kylie Nassif Blizzard | Lewis Sutton |
Janet Donovan | Amy Karp | Tom Neumeier | Peter Tobani |
Maria Paula Duenas | Rebecca Kastner | Jody Newman | Jennifer Tyderek |
Michael Dvoracek | Nancy Keating | Mai-Khoi Nguyen-Thanh | Irene Vitale |
Cathleen Dyer | Beth Keeley | Tricia Nicholson | Binh Vong |
Shoshanna Ehrlich | Bryan Koorstad | Patrick Noonan | David Wardell |
Sammi Elefant | Mayra Lara | Catherine O’Donnell | Naoko Watanabe |
Jessica Ellis | Polly Larracas | Xuan Hung Pham | Steve White |
Alexa Esposito | Kimberly LeBlanc | Michelle Phillips | Linda Wilson |
Sana Fadel | Kristin Toretta Lee | John Post |
Dan Young |