Grant Partners

To purchase new technology equipment i.e., three laptops and two iPhones that would make it possible for Community Health Workers to be more mobile and efficiently address client needs in real time.

Casa Esperanza will maintain and expand its telehealth infrastructure and build staff resilience to better support patients. It will hire bilingual clinical facilitators to enhance and sustain their successful groups for staff to process trauma and stress related to pandemic care.

This grant was made in response to COVID-19 pandemic

Brien Center will increase community-based locations with behavioral health urgent care (BHUC) and expand their operating hours, including 24/7/365 staff for BHUC. Brien Center’s BHUC program will also serve as a bridge between an individual’s emergency services assessment and the connection to outpatient services. The Center will increase its focus on working with all local police departments, the Massachusetts State Police, and other sources to encourage appropriate direct referral and transport to community-based behavioral health urgent care rather than the Emergency Department.

To hire a public health consultant to rapidly assess and modify the organization's teen depression program for the current environment with a focus on serving low-income teens from underserved sectors of Greater Boston disproportionately affected by the COVID.

This grant was made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI) will provide legal expertise to coalitions and organizations that maintain and improve health care coverage for economically marginalized Massachusetts residents.  A key focus will be identifying Medicaid policy flexibilities that should be made permanent when we transition out of the COVID-19 moratorium period. Also, MLRI will ensure that the MassHealth eligibility rules and utilization controls for accessing Long Term Services and Supports and other services for people with disabilities are lawful, and that people with disabilities have information about their treatment options and can access the services they need.  MLRI will continue to improve the current eligibility systems, forms, notices, verification procedures, and data systems that are used to determine eligibility for MassHealth so that eligible beneficiaries can obtain timely decisions and avoid losing benefits for procedural reasons. In addition, MLRI will educate MassHealth beneficiaries to obtain information about their choices for delivery of care, know their rights about participating in care decisions, and understand how to seek recourse through the grievance and administrative hearing decisions.

Ecu-Health Care will support clients in accessing and maintaining health insurance coverage through one-on-one education and outreach in partnership with local community organizations.  It will also participate in a variety of outreach activities to build awareness of its services and to provide coverage information to consumers. It will disseminate information about coverage through social media, flyers, and brochures throughout the community, and will proactively outreach to uninsured Berkshire Medical Center patients to provide insurance enrollment support. Through 2021, specific grant plans may be adjusted to meet the current health and safety guidelines to protect the wellbeing of clients and staff.

To hire a strategic planning consultant to help expand areas of focus and increase impact.

The Regional Environmental Council will bring fresh, local produce to the Community Builders properties and will develop a no/low contact mobile pre-order model to ensure safe and uninterrupted access to healthy foods. It will provide culturally and linguistically responsive training to increase access to food security resources including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the state’s Healthy Incentives Program (HIP).

This grant is made in relationship to the Going Beyond Health Care grant program.

To support communications enhancements for the website, social media, newsletters, text, and Zoom, supporting staff to better meet increased demand remotely.

This grant was made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

To provide a Parenting Journey Facilitator training for three Board members who will learn group management and facilitation techniques to help women effectively care for and communicate with their children.

YMCA of Metro North will support the Lynn Youth Mental Health Collaborative, a partnership between the Lynn YMCA and Lynn Community Health Center. The partnership will include the following components: a Youth Mental Health Clinic; embedded Trauma-Informed Care practices in all Lynn YMCA Youth Programs; resource-sharing fairs to connect families to outside services; and a “Rx for the Y” providing parents with free Y memberships to increase physical activity.

This grant was made in response to COVID-19 pandemic

Boston Public Health Commission will strengthen and grow its impact and presence in communities with the highest rates of uninsured by scaling up successful outreach and enrollment strategies, including flyering and one-on-one counseling, as well as its multilingual enrollment assistance in the office and the community. It will also expand hours, collaborate with local businesses, leverage radio and social media to promote its services, and share information about open enrollment and plan selection periods. Through 2021, specific grant plans may be adjusted to meet the current health and safety guidelines to protect the wellbeing of clients and staff.

To expand the garden to meet increased demand for healthy food for participating teens with low-income and for their food pantry and for equipment to engage participants in virtual programming.

This grant was made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

United Teen Equality Center (UTEC) will support the Circling Home pilot project, a new comprehensive behavioral health project for incarcerated and/or probation and parole-involved young adults (ages 18-25), extending from pre- to post-release without interruption in service or care provider. UTEC serves young people who have not succeeded in other shorter-term programming or who may have been underserved by the judicial system; many of their clients have active substance use issues or are diagnosed with a mental illness. By improving the continuum of care through the reentry process, UTEC expects to improve recidivism and health outcomes.

For an Emergency Assistance Fund to patients at Boston Medical Center including food, furniture, move in costs, diapers in response to COVID-19.

This grant was made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.