(AB Resource Center is new this fall, and any residents of Acton or Boxborough are welcome to visit to learn about community resources and to access the AB Exchange.) It’s important that all donations go through the AB Resource Center (15 Charter Road, Acton) as the shelter itself does NOT have space to accept/sort donations. Once they have done a needs assessment, and we’ve had the opportunity to hear from the residents, we will share what donations we are able to accept. It’s been requested that we wait to launch requests for donations as the shelter itself will provide for the first needs. Residents will be held to state-mandated shelter rules, including a daily curfew.Ī-B United Way will coordinate donations through AB Resource Center.

The shelter will have a van to bring residents to grocery stores and other places occasionally. The schools, the town, and A-B United Way are working closely with MOC and other community partners to prepare to welcome these new neighbors. The Acton shelter will be run by the same organization ( Making Opportunities Count - MOC) that runs the Concord family shelter at the old Best Western (which has been lauded as the state’s gold standard on how to run a shelter). People will stay in this shelter until they find permanent housing, which might take a while given the current housing crisis and the time it takes for work permits to come through. The first families are expected to move into the shelter around November 20th. The rest will remain a motel and no one currently living there will be displaced.

Thirty-three rooms (one of the buildings) will become an emergency shelter.

We at Acton-Boxborough United Way wanted to share what we know at this point, and open a line of communication so that we are all ready to welcome these new families to our community. As you might have heard, one section of Acton’s Minuteman Inn (corner Rt 2 / Hosmer Street) was recently designated as an emergency family shelter.

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