Valley Neighbors Valley Neighbors is working to reshape and enhance the resource thin senior support system in their rural communities through a neighbors helping neighbors model, advocacy, and community education. Read More
Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts Age-Friendly Fair Housing and CORIs Health Impact Assessment The Public Health Institute of Western MA is conducting a health impact assessment to identify and implement key policy, systems-level action steps towards alleviating the burden and impact of CORI on older adults seeking to access affordable housing in Hampden County. PHIWM… Read More
Montachusett Regional Planning Commission Montachusett Age-Friendly Project Montachusett Regional Planning Commission is working to achieve age-friendly designation and create a more livable Montachusett region for residents of all ages. The RPC is assisting communities in long-range plans including identifying barriers for seniors and disabled residents, analysis of needs, and development of action plans with… Read More
Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative (Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley) Advancing Inclusive Age-Friendly Communities The MA Healthy Aging Collaborative is creating and disseminating a “Healthy Aging for All Guide” that promotes inclusive age- and dementia-friendly practices and that can be adapted to fit specific goals of different communities, with an overarching goal to encourage culture change that leads to communities more thoroughly considering the… Read More
MAB Community Services, Inc. / MA Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired – MABVI Raise Awareness and Create More Accessible Age-Friendly Communities MA Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (MABVI) is integrating low vision awareness, vision rehabilitation, and accessibility into Age-Friendly planning across the state. This project will improve access to services and awareness of needs for this underserved population. MABVI will work with partners… Read More
LifePath Healthy Aging for All: Supporting Older Adult Networks to Build Age-Friendly Systems and Policy LifePath will support existing networks of older people, professionals, and community members who care about healthy aging to build capacity to tackle major barriers around housing, transportation, social isolation, and access to services in Franklin County… Read More
Hilltown Community Development Corporation Hilltown Healthy Aging Hilltown Community Development Corporation is addressing barriers to safe walkability in the Hilltowns through activities including: policies that ensure each town’s Select Board has new tools and information necessary to update bylaws to improve walkable town centers; system change so that each town has the information and… Read More
Cape Ann Mass in Motion (City of Gloucester) Cape Ann Seniors on the GO Cape Ann Mass in Motion is working collaboratively with the regional transit authority provider (CATA), Councils on Aging, and regional housing authorities to enact long-term policy and environmental change to the senior housing climate on Cape Ann through systemic change in the way residents… Read More
Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Education Fund and Massachusetts Public Health Association Organizing for Transportation Justice & Stable Neighborhoods in Worcester and Springfield Neighbor to Neighbor MA Education Fund, in partnership with the MA Public Health Association, is working to create an alliance of organizations in Worcester and Springfield to identify and advance local and state policies to increase access to reliable,… Read More
Men of Color Health Awareness — MOCHA (YMCA of Greater Springfield) Disrupting Systemic Structural Racism MOCHA is ramping up five new major action arenas: (1) the formation of Affinity Groups, composed of MOCHA graduates, each of which will focus on one specific PSE issue; (2) capacity building for indigenous leadership through trainings on community organizing and policy advocacy; (3) the implementation… Read More
