May is Mental Health Awareness MonthBlog Post by Kristin King | May 21, 2019 Mental health affects everyone regardless of culture, race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation. 1 in 5 people will be affected by a mental illness in their lifetime. 50% of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin by age 14, and…
ICH staff share learning at CHA 2019 Academic Poster SessionNews by Institute for Community Health | May 8, 2019 Last Thursday, ICH staff members attended the CHA 2019 Academic Poster Session. We enjoyed sharing our posters and learning about the interesting projects being done by other participants. Thank you, CHA Center for Professional and Academic Development, for organizing this…
ICH’s Leah Zallman speaking at multiple eventsNews by Institute for Community Health | May 8, 2019 On April 17th, ICH’s Leah Zallman spoke to CHA child and adolescent psychiatry fellows about the need for healthcare providers to consider social determinants of health in their practice. This coming weekend, Leah will present her poster, “Implementing an electronic…
ICH staff present posters at the CHA 2019 Academic Poster SessionNews by Institute for Community Health | May 2, 2019 Today, multiple ICH staff members are presenting posters at the Cambridge Health Alliance’s 13th Annual Academic Poster Session. We are excited to participate and share our work with and learn from our CHA colleagues. See below for titles, authors, and…
For Mental Health Awareness Month, Let’s Really Understand New Parent Mental HealthBlog Post by Jessie Colbert | May 1, 2019 We are excited to bring you this guest post by ICH’s partner, Jessie Colbert. Jessie is the Executive Director of the Mass. PPD Fund, a nonprofit that is working to raise awareness of postpartum depression and other perinatal mental health…
New downloadable data brief and data tables: Poverty in MassachusettsNews by Institute for Community Health | April 25, 2019 We have published a new data brief that shows the percentage of individuals and families living below the federal poverty level throughout Massachusetts. You can access it here, along with accompanying detailed data tables that provide community-level data. Our previous data…
