Grant Partners

The Family Van’s mission is to educate, counsel, and assist community members in strengthening and protecting their bodies, minds, and communities by increasing access to health care and improving the health of residents in Boston's most underserved communities. The Family Van empowers community members by improving health literacy and providing preventive screenings in a welcoming and non-judgmental environment. In 2021, The Family Van launched Healthy Roads, a program adapted from the PM+ model to reduce the stigma of mental health care while increasing access to high-quality, culturally and linguistically responsive care. Healthy Roads helps those struggling with social isolation, stress, and adversity learn new coping, problem-solving, and help-seeking skills while also providing referrals to specialized care for those who are experiencing acute and severe mental health distress. As part of Advancing Community-Driven Mental Health, The Family Van will provide technical assistance to the grant partners. 

Neighborhood Villages (NV) seeks to build a multi-layered, centrally coordinated behavioral health support model to meet the acute behavioral health needs in early childhood education settings. NV will pilot and evaluate the onsite delivery of early childhood mental health services, beginning with placing an Early Childhood Mental Health consultant in early childhood classrooms at the East Boston Social Centers.

Funding for a Constituent Resource Management (CRM) system that will increase the organization’s capacity to address food insecurity in Western MA. The CRM will allow them to expand their outreach and better engage and manage volunteers and donors.

Funding to research and identify recommendations for technology solutions for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Mass Senior Action Council (MSAC) is a member-led organization and is the only organization in Massachusetts that informs, engages, and empowers low-income seniors from diverse communities to have direct input in shaping the Commonwealth's health policy decisions. Through its structure and programs, diverse communities of seniors with lower income are empowered with information, skills, and organizational capacity to have a strong voice on key healthcare and other public policy issues that affect their lives.