Our Director of Homeless Prevention is often the first contact with Harbor Homes services for residents who are homeless or facing homelessness.
Sharon can be contacted at 774-563-3687. To learn more about her services go here.
Sharon Brown, Director of Homeless Prevention
Dukes County Warming Shelters
Our libraries are a warm place to escape the cold outside or get out of a cold house for a few hours with Wi-fi and options to charge phones or laptops.
To find out if special warming centers have been open, please call 508-560-3678 or check out the schedule here.
Island Wide Youth Collaborative (IWYC)
IWYC helps Island families and youth navigate life’s challenges, regain self-empowerment through information and resources available in the community and/or off-Island. IWYC provides services for families, young people, and community members. All services are free and confidential.
To learn more call 508-693-7900 or visit their website here.
The MV Food Basket, also know as the Good Shepherd Parish Food Pantry offers weekly food distribution for seniors and the general public on Tuesdays and Saturdays. One visit per week, per household to the pantry.
To learn more visit their website here.
MV Food Basket
Dukes County Public Benefits Access
Dukes County's Public Benefits Access Department provides access to economic and social development programs that support and empower lower-income residents of the County to to achieve and maintain financial stability and well-being. Benefits include, unemployment, cash assistance, food assistance, fuel assistance, housing assistance, social security disability and more.
To learn more call 508 696-3844 or visit their website here.
The Housing Authority provides year-round rentals, local rental assistance, affordable homebuyer offers and referral to other housing services and supports.
To learn more call 508-693-4419 or visit their website here.
Dukes County Housing Authority
The Island Housing Trust is a non-profit Community Land Trust organization that supports a diverse and vital community on the island of Martha’s Vineyard by creating and sustaining permanently affordable housing, both rental and ownership.
To learn more call 508-693-1117 or visit their website here.
Island Housing Trust
Housing Assistance is a nonprofit agency that has helped people with housing throughout the Cape and Islands region. The organization creates and preserves pathways to stable, attainable year-round housing that empowers individuals and families to stay rooted and thrive in our community.
To learn more call 508-771-5400 or visit their website here.
Housing Assistance of Cape Cod
The Red House
The Red House Peer Recovery Support Center from MV Community Services, is a peer-to-peer safe place for those seeking tools and resources to help with their addictions, both substance and behavioral.
To learn more call 508-693-2900 or visit their website here.
Ace MV works to empower year-round Vineyard residents by providing equitable access to higher education, workforce training, community-building and career navigation support.
To learn more call 508-693-9222 or visit their website here.