What We Do

Father Bill's & MainSpring provides a range of innovative, compassionate, and cost-effective services to assist individuals and families facing a housing crisis. As an agency, we are always researching best practices, evaluating our own performance, and striving to reduce the need for costly emergency shelter.

Click here to learn more about our current Strategic Plan that advances our transformative housing resource service-delivery model.

In recent years, we realigned our staff into regional departments (see map below) and around a coordinated entry system, ensuring that everyone who comes to our doors can more rapidly address their housing crisis.

Emergency Services

Prevention & Diversion

Rehousing & Supportive Services

Permanent Supportive Housing

Amber and daughter

“This is very hard for me but considering the options, this is great place for me,”

AMBER, WHO ENTERED FBMS EMERGENCY SHELTER WITH HER DAUGHTER AFTER FLEEING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

Cities/Towns by FBMS Region

North

Quincy, Weymouth, Braintree, Milton, Randolph, Hingham, Cohasset, Hull, Dedham, Westwood, Norwood, Canton, Randolph, Scituate, Marshfield, Norwell, Hanson, Hanover, Rockland

Central

Stoughton, Brockton, Bridgewater, West Bridgewater, East Bridgewater, Easton, Avon, Holbrook, Abington, Whitman, Sharon, Hanson

South

Plymouth, Kingston, Halifax, Plympton, Carver, Middleboro, Lakeville, Rochester, Wareham, Onset, Marion, Mattapoisett, Duxbury

FBMS Service area - 41 communities in Massachusetts
*For Tenancy Preservation Program Only: Attleboro, Cape Cod & Islands, Fall RIver, New Bedford, and Taunton

If you are facing a housing crisis, click here to find out how FBMS can help.

Get Help

Our agency is the lead administrator of the South Shore Continuum of Care (CoC), which is a regional planning body that provides a coordinated response to homelessness. Click here to visit the South Shore CoC website to find out the resources available in our region and which agency can best assist you.