Laurie Bloom, B.A., M.Ed.

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Laurie Bloom holds a B.A. in Psychology and a M.Ed. in Counseling and Student Personnel Administration from the University of Delaware.  She has 25 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, beginning with her work as a client services advocate and case manager at the AIDS Action Committee in Boston, a grassroots flagship provider of services to people living with HIV disease in Massachusetts.  

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Laurie Bloom holds a B.A. in Psychology and a M.Ed. in Counseling and Student Personnel Administration from the University of Delaware.  She has 25 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, beginning with her work as a client services advocate and case manager at the AIDS Action Committee in Boston, a grassroots flagship provider of services to people living with HIV disease in Massachusetts.

Recruited to develop and start up one of the state’s first supported housing programs for people living with HIV, River Street Community, Ms. Bloom moved into a program manager role at Justice Resource Institute’s Health Division (“JRI Health”), then comprised of 3 FTEs and growing to more than 80 FTE’s during her tenure.  Ms. Bloom further developed JRI Health’s supported housing programs to include the acclaimed statewide supported apartment programs known as the Assisted Living Program and the Housing Options Program, which provide case management, counseling and supportive services to formerly homeless individuals living in their own apartments, made affordable through specially set-aside government-funded subsidies.  Ms. Bloom also collaborated in the start-up and managed the ongoing operation of JRI Health’s Huntington at Symphony, a unique mixed-use service-infused supported apartment program in the heart of one Boston’s most culturally rich areas, enabling independent living for formerly homeless adults living with HIV, major mental illness, addiction and other challenges.

For the last fifteen years of her tenure at JRI Health, Ms. Bloom served as the Deputy Executive Director of the division, overseeing administrative and financial operations, as well as supervising numerous programs providing congregate and scattered site supported housing for homeless disabled individuals; outreach, counseling, primary medical care, mental health and addiction treatment, and legal assistance to adults and to GLBTQ youth.  Upon her departure from JRI Health after more than sixteen years, Ms. Bloom moved into a consultant role when she was hired to provide an organizational development assessment for Span, Inc., an important niche Boston nonprofit serving prisoners and ex-offenders.  She developed and implemented recommendations for the Board, and was ultimately hired as the agency’s Deputy Executive Director, overseeing the daily operations of finance and administration, data research and evaluation, and direct services to agency clients.  Ms. Bloom is now working as an organizational development, human resources and supported housing development consultant.  Ms. Bloom is the grandmother of two, and a ceramic artist affiliated with several greater Boston arts councils.  She joined the Board of FATEM in September of 2010.