Grant Partners

To hire a professional development consultant to implement a year-round staff training plan focused on the topics of emotional wellness, mental health, and substance abuse issues as they affect youth.

Community Action Committee of Cape Cod & Islands (CACCI), which serves a community with a limited number of insurance plans and available providers, will provide education and ongoing support to consumers as they navigate the health care system and access services. CACCI works with organizations across the region to ensure that consumers enroll in and maintain coverage through advertising, cultural and ethnic events, health and human service providers, businesses, and outreach to specific populations, including immigrant communities. CACCI offers extended hours and tools in languages other than English to increase knowledge and to empower consumers to proactively maintain health care coverage and access the care they need.

To translate and print childhood vision information leaflets.

To hire a technology consultant and purchase a new computer to enhance its data intake and protocols to capture social determinants of health information.

The Greater Boston Food Bank will partner with Tufts Medical Center and the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center to evaluate the impact of a monthly mobile produce market on diet-related chronic diseases and health care utilization among registered GLFHC patients. The study aims to determine the effect of the mobile market attendance on such utilization measures as ED visits, hospitalizations and missed doctors’ visits.

To support a mental health first aid training and manuals. 

To hire a grantwriter and communications consultant. 

To purchase laptops for a new outpatient program in New Bedford.

To support a board retreat focused on governance and development.

To support technology upgrades, data integration and staff training.

Ecu-Health Care will conduct outreach in partnership with local community organizations and institutions; provide direct-to-consumer outreach via phone or mailings to Berkshire Medical Center uninsured patients as identified through an automated referral system; partner with other area health and human service organizations to establish an online referral system; review with clients the contents of a member packet including information on what changes to an account need to be reported, staying healthy with your new insurance, eligibility and benefits, how to make a payment, and advanced premium tax credits; and expand digital media, billboards, public broadcast, and radio advertising.

Clinical & Support Options, Inc. (CSO) operates an Emergency Services Program (ESP) In Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin counties. They provide comprehensive community-based behavioral health services for adults with a range of outpatient, day treatment, psychosocial rehabilitation and care management services. The team will focus their planning year on developing a sustainable model for expanding behavioral health urgent care access to psychopharmacology, providing community-based expedited medical clearance, and enhancing ESP/urgent care and police coordination.

Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI) will provide legal expertise to coalitions and organizations that maintain and improve health care coverage for low-income Massachusetts residents. MLRI will conduct policy research and analyses to help Massachusetts-based and national partners understand how federal regulations may impact coverage. Additionally, MLRI will advocate for ways to reduce churn among MassHealth beneficiaries and will work to ensure that MassHealth members know their rights as consumers.

To hire a digital marketing consultant to enhance the organization's website and social media strategy.

To purchase a new electronic medical record system.