ICH was the evaluator for the Voices for Health Justice (Voices) 1.0 program, which was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and run by a Steering Committee comprising Community Catalyst, Community Change, and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. From December 2020 to March 2023, Voices 1.0 provided funding and technical assistance to 25 grantee organizations and their subgrantee partners in 24 states. The overarching goal of the program was to build power in communities experiencing disproportionate health inequities to improve healthcare accessibility, affordability, and ability to treat all people with dignity. ICH used a participatory and utilization-focused approach guided by the principles of equitable evaluation. This approach meant, among other things, that we were intentional in recognizing and valuing the expertise of grantees and other stakeholders and ensuring that they had a voice in evaluation design and methods, and that we were attentive to the contexts programs were operating in and how this impacted different populations.
ICH is supporting the hospital to develop outreach and educational materials that meet the needs of pregnant Spanish and Haitian Creole speakers in their communities.
ICH conducted an implementation evaluation of the Centering Pregnancy model, which provides prenatal care in a supportive group setting.
ICH is the evaluator for the second round of the Voices for Health Justice program (Voices 2.0). Voices seeks to build power in communities experiencing health inequities to improve the health care system’s accessibility, affordability, and ability to treat all people with dignity.
ICH is evaluating the Behavioral Health Workforce Initiative (BHWI), run by the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers and funded by Mass General Brigham. The initiative consists of three workforce recruitment and retention programs implemented at community health centers (CHCs) across the state.
ICH is evaluating a SUD equity grant program run by the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers to increase access to and retention in effective, culturally responsive treatment and recovery services among Black, Latine, Native, and tribal-identifying people in Boston.