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 Crystal Nicholas , Community Development Coordinator at 202-234-0707 ext 127.
Participating Agencies:
| Bread for the City NW Center |
Miriam's Kitchen |
| 1525 7th Street NW |
2401 Virginia Avenue NW |
| Washington DC 20001 |
Washington DC 20037 |
(202) 265-2400 |
(202) 452-8926 |
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| Bread for the City SE Center |
N Street Village |
| 1640 Good Hope Road SE |
1333 N Street NW |
| Washington DC 20020 |
Washington DC 20005 |
(202) 561-8587 |
(202) 939-2076 |
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| Capitol Hill Group Ministry |
National Student Partnerships |
| 1338 G Street SE |
128 M Street NW Suite #320 |
| Washington DC 20003 |
Washington DC 20001 |
(202) 544-3450 |
(202) 289-2525 |
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| Catholic Charities |
Neighbor's Consejo |
| 2700 MLK Avenue SE (801 East Building Shelter ) |
3118 16th Street NW |
| Washington DC 20032 |
Washington DC 20002 |
(202) 772-4307 |
(202) 234-6855 |
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| East of the River Clergy Police Community Partnership |
Pathways to Housing DC |
| 4118 First Street SE |
101 Q Street NE Suite G |
| Washington DC 20032 |
Washington DC 20002 |
(202) 561-1284 |
(202) 529-2972 |
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| Friendship Place |
Perry School Community Services Center |
| 4713 Wisconsin Avenue NW |
128 M Street NW Suite #335 |
| Washington DC 20016 |
Washington DC 20001 |
(202) 364-1419 |
(202) 312-7154 |
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| Green Door |
Southeast Veterans Services Center |
| 1623 16th Street NW |
820 Chesapeake Street SE |
| Washington DC 20009 |
Washington DC 20032 |
(202) 408-1977 |
(202) 561-8387 |
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| Jobs Have Priority |
SOME Center for Employment Training |
| 1526 Pennsylvania Avenue SE |
2815 O Street SE |
| Washington DC 20003 |
Washington DC 20020 |
(202) 544-9128 |
(202) 583-4655 |
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| Latin American Youth Center |
Washington Area Women in the Trades |
| 1474-B Columbia Road NW |
624 9th Street NW |
| Washington DC 20009 |
Washington DC 20001 |
(202) 319-0144 |
(202) 626-0700 |
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| Latino Transitional Housing |
Whitman Walker Clinic |
| 1545 6th Street NW |
1407 S Street NW |
| Washington DC 20001 |
Washington DC 20009 |
(202) 518-6605 |
(202) 939-7690 |
For more information contact:
Crystal Nicholas
Community Development Coordinator
202 234 0707 extension 127
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