Today, our hearts are heavy. We are at a loss for words not because this loss is unfamiliar, but because it is all too familiar. The massacre by one person with an assault weapon of forty-nine people and more than 53 injured, mostly LGBTQ Latinos, Latinas and their friends under 30 years old, is shocking […]

We’ve recently learned that the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is currently discussing two fare hike proposals. These would increase fares by either 6.71 or 9.77 percent on average. This being said, the increase may be as high as 23 percent for certain passes. Such an increase would largely affect low-income residents and people of […]

By Holli Childs, BACH Intern “Health Coach and Patient.” Iora Primary Care health coach Brendalys Rosario takes senior Marina Haley on a tour of the new Iora practice in Hyde Park, Mass. “Public Health Community Health Trainers.” Public health educators at UMass Amherst train community health workers to establish health, wellness, and prevention programs and […]

By Ellen Kenny, BACH Intern Construction begins at Bartlett Place. Nuestra CDC, one of BACH’s partners, along with Windale Developers, are behind the new and exciting Bartlett Place. Bartlett Place is a large, mixed-use development complex, which will begin construction in Dudley Square, Roxbury, early this year. Once completed, Bartlett Place will be the largest […]

Since you have been following BACH this past year, you know about the Healthy Community Champions (HCCs) program we have developed. With funding to 12 community-based organizations, we have recruited and trained 75 residents from 9 of Boston’s neighborhoods most in need of health improvement strategies to address the most common causes of chronic illness: […]