Grant Partners

Funding to purchase equipment that will enhance participant’s experience at virtual trainings, resulting in better understanding of the needs of clients as well as increasing the capacity and skill of staff.  

Funding to support integration and implementation of new software to improve client services.  

Health Care for All advocates for consumers on health care access, quality, and cost. HCFA's goals, strategies, and tactics are shaped by thousands of consumer experiences captured by the HelpLine, outreach, and ongoing organizing efforts. HCFA maintains strong, transparent relationships with state agencies that allow for timely escalation and resolution of critical consumer-facing issues.

The Somali Development Center helps to develop the capacity of individuals and families to be self-sufficient through educational and social services. The program will equip the Somali Development Center to catalyze a new stage of growth by enhancing capacity to build campaigns and advocacy tools to advance racial justice in health. It will focus on the importance of oral health for refugees – working towards cross-cultural and patient centered health care.   

Funding to develop and operationalize new assessment tools that will help connect families with low-incomes to more service supports like referrals to health care professionals, elder care services, and other supports for  families’ overall health and well-being.

Ecu-Health Care, a nonprofit based in North Adams, will provide extensive outreach, education and application enrollment assistance to uninsured and underinsured individuals across Northern Berkshire County.

Partners In Health (PIH)’s mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. PIH strives to achieve two overarching goals: to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair. PIH has significant experience implementing Problem Management Plus (PM+), a psychological intervention developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) that non-specialists can deliver to address common mental health conditions in people affected by adversity. PIH adapted PM+ through a cross-site process and piloted it in Rwanda, Peru, Mexico, and Malawi from 2016 to 2021, and it continues to be delivered across all these settings. As part of Advancing Community-Driven Mental Health grant program, PIH will provide technical assistance to the grant partners and will provide project management for the three-year grant program.

Massachusetts Association for Mental Health (MAMH) focuses on expanding access to effective treatment and services, reducing stigma and discrimination, and addressing behavioral health services disparities.  It is a critical partner in both the area of social determinants of health and health care reform as a convener, technical adviser, and coalition leader.  MAMH will continue to inform the implementation of the Executive Office of Health and Human Service's Roadmap for Behavioral Health Reform and the Strategic Design Work Group for MassHealth's 1115 waiver renewal. It will also advocate for the implementation of behavioral health parity laws; and educate and engage stakeholders around the need to expand access to timely, comprehensive, community-based, and culturally and linguistically responsive services.  In addition, MAMH will continue to engage communities of color in the content and user experience of Network of Care Massachusetts' Culturally Responsive Behavioral Health Information Hub and expand its partnership with the Urban League to tackle disparities. 

The Welcome Project builds the collective power of immigrants to participate in and shape community decisions through programming for youth and adults that develops leadership skills, builds civic engagement, and strengthens immigrant voices.  It will work to develop partnerships with other immigrant and health organizations to advance efforts for equitable working conditions for immigrant workers and to ensure their health and safety to improve community health. 

Fathers’ UpLift (FUL) has developed an affiliate model of its evidence-based intervention, which it hopes to use to expand its impact and capacity. FUL will recruit private clinical therapists and locally oriented mental health/wellness nonprofits to implement FUL's evidence-based interventions, along with a comprehensive measurement and evaluation tool it developed in coordination with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2021. FUL's goal with this programming is to productively align with, guide, and equip clinicians, mental health, and wellness-oriented nonprofits to serve black and brown men, particularly fathers.

Funding for technology to enable clients to join telehealth appointments, explore healthcare options, conduct job searches, and participate in continuing education and skills training.

Funding to produce Spanish and English recovery-based reentry yoga videos specifically to reach men in Lawrence. The Mandela Yoga Project will adapt and record its signature integrative health program to address the unique and specific needs of Black and Latino men who are at risk of fatal overdose upon release from incarceration.

This grant funded outreach to individuals who have experienced gaps in insurance coverage due to barriers identified through our policy and research work.  This outreach supported the inclusion of a qualitative component to a policy and research project, elevating the lived experience of members of our community in our work.

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Funding to support the expansion of teletherapy services through the purchase of new equipment – including laptops and teleworking software for the counseling program.

Funding for marketing and communications efforts to increase the counseling center’s visibility to youth workers that are facing hardships and streamline new client registration projects that can allow them to have access to mental health services.