Nature and Purpose
Pine Street Inn is New England's leading resource for homeless men and women, providing street outreach, shelter, health care, job training, and permanent, affordable housint to 8,000 individuals each year.
Homelessness in Boston has increased 54 percent during the past decade. Each night in Boston, 6,000 people now find themselves with no place to call home. Many of these individuals turn to Pine Street for help, and each one is welcomed as a "guest." Conselors work with guests to help them move as far as they can, as quickly as they are able beyond shelter.
More information about the work of the inn and ways to help can be found at pinestreetinn.org.

Tasks
      PULSE students have the opportunity to interact with Pine Street's guests while they engage in a number of volunteer activities. These include sorting and handing out guest mail, helping check guests in to the nurse's clinic, staffing the front desk of the inn's shelters, coordinating the nightly list of guest bed assignments, assisting with meal service and more.  PULSE students will be assigned to a staff person who will act as the student's mentor. Students will be assigned to the Men's Inn at our emergency shelter.
PULSE students who are interested in volunteering at Pine Street Inn will complete a mandatory one-day training prior to starting. 

Time Requirements
    PULSE students should plan to work either 2 four hour shifts per week beginning at 2PM and ending at 6PM or 1 eight hour shift per week beginning at 1PM and ending at 9PM.

Supervisor
Peg Drisko-Johnson, Director of Volunteer Programs
Scottie Wait, Volunteer Coordinator

Address
Pine Street Inn
444 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02118
521-7286
www.pinestreetinn.org

Council Member
Eric Kelley

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