Public Benefits and Community Assistance

DHCD oversees funding and resources to help people in Massachusetts live affordably and safely.

We manage workforce development and labor to ensure workers have protection, tools, and training to succeed.

We are one of the largest human services providers in the Commonwealth in addition to being the most programmatically diverse.

We work to create a health care system that provides culturally competent care to everyone, especially the most vulnerable among us, through public policy, advocacy, education, and public service.

GLSEN strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.

Greater Boston PFLAG works to create environments of understanding so that all people can live with dignity and respect through:

SpeakOUT is a community of speakers working to create a world free of homo-bi-transphobia and other forms of prejudice by telling the truths of our lives.