Grant Partners

Worcester RISE Health Clinic will provide cross-cultural and trauma-informed training for behavioral health services and staff of community-based organizations with the specific lens of how to better serve new migrant arrivals to area service providers. Specifically, Worcester RISE will develop a model for mental health training of frontline workers to scale up the local capacity to build a network of trauma-informed and culturally sensitive behavioral health providers in Worcester to increase access to culturally sensitive services.

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.

Girls Inc. of the Valley will advance health and health equity by creating a new mental health program that provides low-barrier, no-cost mental health services to low-income BIPOC youth who participate in Girls Inc. programs. They can reach youth in a trusted setting by embedding new mental health services into their programs.

Recovery from Stress and Trauma through Outpatient Services, Research, and Education Center at Boston Medical Center will pilot a behavioral health support program, the Race-Based Stress/Trauma and Empowerment group (RBSTE). RBSTE utilizes education about racism and wellness and teaches mindfulness and behavioral skills to bolster resistance to race-based stress. The program will be culturally adapted and piloted in faith organizations.

Northeast Arc and other partner organizations will provide telehealth services and expertise to increase health care access and improve outcomes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The telehealth provider, StationMD, will address health care symptoms early to reduce emergency room visits and divert patients from hospitals and primary care practices that are currently overburdened.

The Baker Center for Children and Families (BCCF) and the Morning Star Baptist Church (MSBC) will co-create a community-based, community-leader-led support program called Caregiver Conversations. The pilot program will help address the lack of access to effective mental health care for children and their caregivers living in Boston's Roxbury, Mattapan, and Dorchester neighborhoods.

Saheli will develop and deliver a cultural competency training program for frontline hospital providers and staff to help them understand the unique cultural characteristics and motivations of South Asian and Arab immigrants, specifically, women, to identify signs of abuse within a cultural context. Saheli will work with hospital partners focusing on the domestic violence units and the staff and providers of the gynecology, primary care, pediatric and maternity units.  

Immigrants' Assistance Center will work with unaccompanied and undocumented youth in elementary and middle school and their families and/or guardians to increase access to health care and regular health check-ups, including vaccinations. It will educate children and their families and/or guardians about the best ways to meet their health needs. It will also educate them about, the importance of preventive care and the dangers of not addressing health issues promptly.

Rian Immigrant Center will meet with individuals and families to help determine their health needs and connect them with resources and services that meet those needs. Its population of focus will be immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in communities across the Commonwealth. It will also coordinate closely with other community-based organizations and local and state agencies to ensure that its services are additive and not duplicative. 

African Community Economic Development of New England (ACEDONE) will meet with individuals and families to help determine their health needs and connect them with resources and services that meet those needs. Its population of focus will be immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in communities across the Commonwealth. It will also coordinate closely with other community-based organizations and local and state agencies to ensure that its services are additive and not duplicative. 

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.

Ellie Fund will increase access to clinical trials for high-risk cancer patients, who have low-income, and are people of color who would not otherwise have access to cutting-edge treatments. EF is partnering with leading researchers and oncologists to change the landscape of clinical trials, by addressing patient-facing barriers and ensuring they do not exclude low-income communities and people of color. EF will evaluate the success of these measures in increasing participation among patients of color and the ability of patients to adhere to and complete treatment because of EF services.

Lawyers for Civil Rights will meet with individuals and families to help determine their health needs and connect them with resources and services that meet those needs. Its population of focus will be immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in communities across the Commonwealth. It will also coordinate closely with other community-based organizations and local and state agencies to ensure that its services are additive and not duplicative. 

Agencia ALPHA will meet with individuals and families to help determine their health needs and connect them with resources and services that meet those needs. Its population of focus will be immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in communities across the Commonwealth. It will also coordinate closely with other community-based organizations and local and state agencies to ensure that its services are additive and not duplicative. 

Transhealth Northampton (TN) will develop a pilot program to examine the effectiveness of a consulting model for gender-affirming care. This program will expand access by educating and supporting providers.  Under this model, the provider can reach out to Transhealth for a provider-to-provider consultation to ask specific questions about patient care.  In addition to individual consultations, Transhealth will create training and educational toolkits to expand the project’s reach and reach out to local primary care offices, medical groups, community health centers, and other local organizations to educate them about the program and invite them to participate.