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 working with MDPH’s Division of Violence and Injury Prevention to evaluate the HEAL violence prevention program, designed to use strengths-based approaches to prevent violence before it begins.
The Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research is partnering with Vital CxNs to develop, implement, and analyze a survey tool to measure shared metrics within and across projects and community partners.
LZC is providing technical assistance to the City of Boston Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement’s (MOIA) on their community-based participatory research (CBPR) study to learn more about the needs of immigrants in the city.
ICH is conducting a process and outcomes evaluation for the Determination of Need programs of two Mass General Brigham hospitals – Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital – which are supporting initiatives related to mental/behavioral health, housing, food/nutrition security, and economic mobility/financial stability in Suffolk County.
ICH is evaluating the RIZE LinC Program, which aims to strengthen partnerships between community-based organizations and healthcare centers in order to improve linkages to substance use disorder care following hospitalization