BOSTON'S HIGHER GROUND INC

Family-led stability initiative: in fiscal year 2025, higher ground continued to play a lead role in the family-led stability initiative (flsi) to address student homelessness in boston schools. Higher ground coordinated the program with an agreement with boston public schools (bps) on behalf of four non-profit organizations and in collaborations with the boston housing authority (bha) and the mayor's office of housing (moh) supporting families served by 16 schools in boston's roxbury, dorchester and mattapan neighborhoods. The nonprofit partners in addition to higher ground are dudley street neighborhood initiative (dsni), project hope, and new lease for homeless families. The 16 partner schools include the boston day and evening academy, david a. Ellis, dudley street neighborhood charter school, dearborn stem academy, ellison parks early education center, haynes early education center, henry l. Higginson inclusion, higginson lewis inclusion, madison park technical vocational high school, o'bryant school of science and math, orchard gardens, rafael hernandez, william monroe trotter, boston international newcomer academy, lilla fredrick pilot school, and fenway high school. During fiscal 2025, we continued discussions with networks of organizations in boston and gateway communities in eastern massachusetts that had expressed interest in launching their own initiatives to address student homelessness in their communities.