Grant Partners

True Alliance Center, an immigrant-led grassroots organization, will further embed enrollment services in the rapidly growing Haitian community in Greater Boston.

MAMH focuses on expanding access to effective treatment and services, reducing stigma and discrimination, and addressing disparities in behavioral health services. MAMH's ability to disseminate scientific knowledge about mental health promotion, prevention, treatment, and recovery supports advocacy, community-based organizations, and state and local governments.

Boston Senior Home Care (BSHC) is committed to ensuring that culturally diverse older adults and individuals with disabilities, particularly those of limited means, can remain safely in their homes with dignity and independence. BSHC will provide the Problem Management Plus (PM+) intervention to residents participating in Supporting Connections (the organization’s PM+ intervention program) and support PM+ staff to increase their knowledge, comfort, and confidence in discussing mental health and delivering Supporting Connections to BSHC residents.

Massachusetts PPD Fund will be able to expand its perinatal mental health training series and raise awareness about perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, a pregnancy complication affecting 1 in 5 new mothers. 

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.

Burlington Public Schools will pilot Collaborative Care in Schools, a team-based mental health care approach created to complement existing school services. The pilot will enhance behavioral health support for students and families without additional costs to the school districts. A specialized mental health care team will be deployed to Burlington Public Schools, consisting of a behavioral health care manager, a licensed clinician with a master's level in behavioral health, and a nurse practitioner. Additionally, a consulting psychiatrist will be available once a week to meet with the mental health care team. This model aims to cater to both students and faculty members of Burlington Public Schools and work toward reducing barriers to mental health services and providing personalized care that meets each student's unique needs. 

William James College’s Center for Workforce Development (CWD) will pilot a Behavioral Health Service Corps for Men of Color (BHSC-MOC) to address the urgent need for frontline behavioral health workers from under resourced communities. This pipeline program aims to diversify the behavioral health field as well as serve as a catalyst for building a sustainable workforce that can address mental health and substance use disparities among historically underserved communities in Massachusetts. 

Community Servings will pilot a “step-down program” for clients who have received medically tailored meals but have become well enough to transition away from home-delivery service.  The program will provide a pathway to address food and nutrition insecurity.  The step-down program will provide medically tailored food boxes, a cookbook with simple recipes, cooking demonstration videos, nutrition education, and support from a registered dietitian nutritionist.

First Teacher Boston will provide perinatal health education to Black and brown families in Dorchester and Roxbury with a series of small-group workshops and a prenatal/postpartum resource toolkit. 

Stavros' mission is to help persons with disabilities and Deaf people develop the tools and skills they need to take charge of their own lives. They accomplish this through programs and services designed to meet the needs of persons of any age or disability as they work to achieve the life goals that are important to them. Stavros provides services to persons that identify as having a disability and who live in Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties of western Massachusetts. Stavros will work with the BCBSMA Foundation and its technical assistance partners to support community members in addressing mild mental health distress and practical problems of daily living. Stavros will implement the PM+ model to support people with disabilities who live in western Massachusetts and have difficulty getting services due to limited access to the internet and transportation.

Funding for two Instant Language Assistant (ILA) devices as well as software to allow more electronic communications in multiple languages to meet the surge of non-English speaking clients. These devices will provide real-time translation support to serve and provide resources to multilingual clients.

Funding requested to elevate the organization’s digital and social media presence to effectively communicate with the community and break the stigma surrounding mental health conversations for families raising youth with mental health needs by ensuring they have access to care, community, and resources.

Funding to develop program materials to help pilot the Peer-Based Mental Wellness Coaching Program, a transformative approach to mental wellness that leverages lived experience, cultural wisdom, and community support. 

MIRA Coalition is the only statewide advocacy organization exclusively devoted to the well-being of immigrants and refugees. MIRA partners with other health care advocates to ensure that the needs of immigrants and refugees are supported and appropriately communicated through various channels. MIRA plays a critical education, outreach, and advocacy role at a time when access to health care for immigrants continues to be challenging.

Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee’s (CEOC) mission is to empower people and mobilize resources to fight the impact and causes of poverty through education and organizing. CEOC envisions an inclusive and diverse Cambridge without poverty, where everyone has affordable housing, quality health care, education, food security, and economic stability. CEOC will provide the Journey to the Hope program (the organization’s PM+ intervention program); increase staff members' knowledge, comfort, and confidence in discussing mental health and delivering Journey to Hope to community members.