What is the Campus of Care Collaborative? The Campus of Care Collaborative aims to reduce racial and ethnic inequities in education and health by 1) increasing the number of formerly isolated families who make use of available services that can positively impact their children’s health and education outcomes, and 2) enhancing the impact of available […]

What is the Community Health Leader Training? This pilot project aims to train women as health leaders in regard to reproductive health and diseases of the reproductive system that disproportionately affect women of African descent. The training exposes these health leaders to a new dimension in the public discourse about the health and social challenges […]

Amy McCarthy South Boston Collaborative Advisory Network (SBCAN) SBCAN is one of our Champions for Strategic Issue #3 around trauma and resiliency. How does this issue connect to the South Boston neighborhood? South Boston has high rates of overdoses and suicides, which can be traumatic for the families directly impacted, but also neighbors and other […]

The Boston Racial Justice and Equity Initiative is a group of organizations, professionals, and community members that are committed to building a healthy community. They strive to do this by increasing racial equity in employment, education, housing, and health care, among other opportunities, and by working for racial justice. This petition asks Mayor Walsh to […]

To celebrate Fair Housing Month, the Boston Fair Housing Commission is holding a poster contest. The contest is open to students that live in Boston grades 1-12. All entries must be submitted between March 3rd-March 27th. The winner will be selected based on an online voting system. Prizes will be awarded to the top 3 […]

Jeanne Sinatra East Boston Collaborative for Families What is your overall impression of the MAPP process? It’s my first time involved with this process, and I’m just learning as I go. It’s hard to compare to any other process; it’s very unique. I like the MAPP process because it looks at health broadly. It really […]

Healthier Roxbury, BACH’s collaboration with the Greater Boston Aligning Forces for Quality Initiative (GB AF4Q), is an effort to bring the community together by strengthening connections between hospitals, health centers, and community programs and residents to achieve better health, beginning first with diabetes. Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) is the operational home for GB AF4Q, […]

In early November, the American Public Health Association held its Annual Meeting & Exposition in Boston. This event brings together over 13,000 national and international educators, researchers, epidemiologists and health professionals to address current and emerging health science, policy, and practice issues in an effort to prevent disease and promote health. Phillip O. González, Program […]

On Saturday, October 12, over 200 youth participants and facilitators gathered at Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge to participate in Hispanic Black Gay Coalition (HGBC) 2013 LGBTQ Youth Empowerment Conference – a free conference that creates a safe and positive space for LGBTQ youth of color to be confident, empowered and advocates for social change. […]

Project CLEAR is recruiting approximately 400 African-American and 100 LGBT participants (both smokers and non smokers) from Boston to complete a survey about warning labels on tobacco products. The survey takes about one hour to complete and we will be administered on tablets and computers. They will be conducted in community centers or computer labs in […]