Dear Friends and Supporters,

As the year comes to an end, please know how thankful we are for your support of Community Teamwork throughout the year. We would not be able to do the work we do without it and we are truly grateful.

From all of us at Community Teamwork, we are wishing you and your families a wonderful holiday filled with peace and joy, and good health in the New Year!

Gratefully,
Karen Frederick, CEO
Community Teamwork

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CTI Staff and Volunteers Distribute Toys for Tots
In partnership with the U.S. Marine Corps, Community Teamwork, led by the Volunteer Center's Director Bridget Quinn, is a distribution site for Toys for Tots. Each year, we welcome volunteers to help sort and distribute Christmas gifts to hundreds of local families. This year, more than ever with rising inflation, we have seen a major increase in the number of requests for help. It feels wonderful to put a smile on someone's face!

To learn more about our volunteer opportunities, visit:
City of Lights Parade with YouthBuild

Community Teamwork took part in the Lowell City of Lights Parade: CTI's YouthBuild of Greater Lowell and CTI's Transportation Division (part of Child and Family Services), also participated. Great start to the Holiday Season…Thanks, City of Lowell!
Pictured: Sheila Och, President of CTI Board (far left) along with YouthBuild students - in front of their YouthBuild truck that they decorated.

Thank you to the Chelmsford Department of Health and Chelmsford Police Department
Thank you to the staff at the Chelmsford Health Department for their service over the past year in helping house many of our homeless clients in Chelmsford. They have gone above and beyond to keep people safe and secure. Thank you! Pictured L-R Darcy Beall - Public Health Nurse, Charlene Destrempe - Administrative Assistant, Carl Howell - CTI, Sue Rosa - Health Director, Karen Frederick - CTI, Amy Mcinerney - Health Inspector, Taryn Angel - Human Services Coordinator and Donna Greenwood - Assistant Health Director
Thank you to Chief James Spinney and the Chelmsford Police Department for your compassionate response and supportive partnership over the years working with Community Teamwork to keep Individuals experiencing homelessness safe and sheltered.

Special shout outs to Chelmsford Officers O’Hearn, Gallant, and Hawkins as well as Rachel Beers, Department Clinician.
Tom Sun, Director of HCEC at CTI, Receives the Transformative Leadership Award from THRIVE
L_R: Pipheak TOM Sun - CTI and
Sing Thanousith - THRIVE Communities, Community Builder (soon to be Co-Director)
This award, presented by THRIVE, was for a local leader who embodies transformative values in their work and community engagement. Recipients are individuals who have built upon their personal experiences to inspire, nurture and heal their community. These leaders are paving the way for systemic change. This describes Tom Sun, Director of the Housing Consumer Education Center (HCEC) at Community Teamwork.

At Community Teamwork, Tom has worked diligently to lead his team to help provide hundreds of people with support from the Residential Assistance for Families in Transition (RAFT) program during the pandemic and beyond. RAFT is a state-funded targeted program that helps keep qualifying households in stable housing situations when facing eviction, loss of utilities and other housing emergencies.

In addition, Tom has worked with THRIVE over the past years helping to educate their clients on available resources in relation to RAFT, tenants’ rights and the eviction process. Tom has been able to successfully assist THRIVE clients in securing assistance with housing or to maintain housing.
THRIVE's mission is to empower communities to welcome and support their neighbors transitioning from incarceration. THRIVE will disrupt cycles of incarceration, isolation and social harm by organizing and supporting grassroots efforts for restorative re-entry, community building and leadership development among those most impacted by incarceration. This community-based response to the challenges of re-entry will help communities learn how to heal themselves and address systemic barriers to re-entry.


Customer Satisfaction Survey
We want to hear from you! If you have received any services from Community Teamwork in the past year, we would love to know how it went. If you visited the Resource Center, received RAFT or ERAP, WIC, Fuel Assistance, enrolled your children in our childcare programs, received Toy 4 Tots or received any other services from the agency, please tell us about your experience.
 
The survey is only 4 questions and you can fill it out online in about 3 minutes. All answers are anonymous.
 
 
 
 

Thank you!

This newsletter is sponsored by our Premier Partner, Enterprise Bank, who continues to support Community Teamwork's mission each and every day.

We appreciate all of our Sponsors whose continued generosity allows us to fulfill our mission.
  • Sandi A. Wilson Endowment Fund
  • John and Alyce Moore
  • Bernadette & Robert Wheeler
  • George and Carol Duncan
  • Joncas Associates
  • Lowell School Committee
  • Lowell Public School Department
  • The Flower Mill
There are ALWAYS Ways to Help
If you find yourself in a position to help, your contribution will aid our efforts on every front as we work together to defeat COVID-19, care for our clients and families in their hour of greatest need, and emerge stronger than ever. 

COMMUNITY TEAMWORK
978.459.0551