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Community Voice Mail >>
The Washington, DC Community Voice Mail Program provides FREE voicemail service to people without phones seeking jobs, housing, healthcare or safety.
Why?
Access to communication is vital to reclaiming stability, yet is often overlooked as a means to help people in need.
In addition, there are several goals that we work to achieve:
- Eliminate phonelessness as a barrier to employment, shelter/housing, and delivery of social services.
- Reduce the time that individuals in crisis or transition spend in the supportive social service system.
- Increase the number and timeliness job, housing, and social service leads delivered to clients.
- Increase clients’ ability to solve their own problems.
- Increase the ability of service providers and case managers to work with the hardest-to-serve clients.
- Facilitate the transfer of voicemail technology as a community organizing tool to build networks of agencies and service providers across multiple sectors and build the social capital in the community.
How Does It Work?
CVM sounds just like an answering machine, allowing users to leave a personal and
professional greeting for callers. A CVM phone number looks like any other number, and does not signal the user's
status. Retrieving messages is easy. Simply dial the 10-digit number from any touch-tone phone and enter a short
PIN number. Users can then hear messages 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The Washington, DC Community Voice Mail program is part of the CVM national network of sites, empowering people in crisis and transition by distributing free 24-hour voice mail nationwide – directly linking individuals to jobs, housing, safety and stability. CVM National Office website: www.cvm.org.
How to Sign Up for CVM :Community Voice Mail is available through social service agencies in our community. Please check with any of the Community Voice Mail participating agencies for voice mail service.
If your agency would like to add Community Voice Mail as a case management tool,
please contact Lauren Polen
and Andrea Blackstone, Community Voicemail Program Coordinators, at 202-580-8178.
Participating Agencies:
| Bread for the City NW Center |
Ida Mae Campbell Wellness & Resource Center |
| 1525 7th Street NW |
1338 North Capitol Street NW, Suite 101 |
| Washington DC 20001 |
Washington DC 20002 |
(202) 265-2400 |
(202) 684-7015 or (899) 851-4945 |
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| Bread for the City SE Center |
Jobs Have Priority |
| 1640 Good Hope Road SE |
1526 Pennsylvania Avenue SE |
| Washington DC 20020 |
Washington DC 20003 |
(202) 561-8587 |
(202) 544-9128 |
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| Capitol Hill Group Ministry |
Latino Transitional Housing |
| 1338 G Street SE |
1545 6th Street NW |
| Washington DC 20003 |
Washington DC 20001 |
(202) 544-3450 |
(202) 464-9200 |
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| Catholic Charities |
Miriam's Kitchen |
| 2700 MLK Avenue SE (801 East Building Shelter ) |
2401 Virginia Avenue NW |
| Washington DC 20032 |
Washington DC 20037 |
(202) 772-4307 |
(202) 452-8926 |
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| Community Connections |
N Street Village |
| 801 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Suite 201 |
1333 N Street NW |
| Washington DC 20003 |
Washington DC 20005 |
(202) 546-1512 |
(202) 939-2076 |
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| Families Forward |
National Student Partnerships |
| 1012 14th Street NW |
128 M Street NW, Suite #320 |
| Washington DC 20005 |
Washington DC 20001 |
(202) 639-9760 |
(202) 289-2525 |
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| Friendship Place |
Neighbor's Consejo |
| 4713 Wisconsin Avenue NW |
3118 16th Street NW |
| Washington DC 20016 |
Washington DC 20002 |
(202) 364-1419 |
(202) 234-6855 |
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| Green Door |
Pathways to Housing DC |
| 1623 16th Street NW |
101 Q Street NE, Suite G |
| Washington DC 20009 |
Washington DC 20002 |
(202) 408-1977 |
(202) 529-2972 |
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| Green Door Core Service Agency |
Perry School Community Services Center |
| 1221 Taylor Street NW |
128 M Street NW, Suite #335 |
| Washington DC 20011 |
Washington DC 20001 |
(202) 939-7690 |
(202) 312-7154 |
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| Homes for Hope |
SOME Center for Employment Training |
| 3003-A G Street SE |
2815 O Street SE |
| Washington DC 20020 |
Washington DC 20020 |
(202) 582-0169 |
(202) 583-4655 |
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Washington Area Women in the Trades |
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624 9th Street NW |
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Washington DC 20001 |
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(202) 626-0700 |
For more information contact:
Lauren Polen or Andrea Blackstone
Community Voicemail Program Coordinator
202-234-0707 extension 157
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