Healthy Communities

Health Resources in Action engages with communities, coalitions, organizations, and funders to support, develop and sustain healthier and safer communities. The Mass Partnership for Healthy Communities works statewide throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the Greater Boston Center for Healthy Communities which works in the greater Boston region.

The Massachusetts Partnership for Healthy Communities works with community leaders to

• provide a comprehensive training forum for community teams from across the Commonwealth
• stimulate collaboration opportunities among public health and community leaders to build a healthier, safer community
• improve community ability to implement change
• find new ways to help communities include their diverse populations

The Greater Boston Center for Healthy Communities supports coalitions and community groups in Boston, Brookline, Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop by

• providing assistance with strategic planning, community needs assessment, data collection and analysis, training, program development, coalition building, evidence-based strategies, and evaluation
• helping groups to develop plans to improve the health of their communities, using the most up-to-date prevention research, data, curricula, and tools
• assisting groups in identifying health priorities and designing new initiatives to meet the communities’ health concerns
• providing guidance to coalitions focused on alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse prevention through a contract with DPH