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Tami Gouveia, MSW, MPHHealthy Communities System [email protected]
June, 2011Prevention Caucus
Massachusetts Healthy Communities System
What is a Healthy Community?
What is a Healthy Community?
What is a Healthy Community?
• Easily identified by physical characteristics, including clean streets and neighborhoods, safe and affordable housing, access to safe green and recreation spaces, community engagement, and access to healthy foods.
A Healthy Community makes the healthy choice the easy choice.
Massachusetts Healthy Communities System
Premier statewide resource for technical assistance, training, and consulting for healthy communities in a way that: • involves and mobilizes key stakeholders;• builds and sustains community infrastructure
through quality relationships; • addresses social and economic factors which
affect community health; and• results in data-driven work that improves
people’s health.
Massachusetts Healthy Communities System
• 6 regional centers and MA Partnership for Healthy Communities.
• Governed by a Leadership Council.
• 35 staff statewide with expertise in public health and prevention:
– obesity prevention
– substance abuse prevention
– violence prevention
– teen pregnancy prevention
Massachusetts Healthy Communities System
• We build healthy communities by applying our expertise in:
– strategic planning
– evaluation and program monitoring
– partnership and coalition development
– assessment
– community mobilization
Going Upstream to Root Causes
Massachusetts Healthy Communities System
We build healthy communities by going upstream to identify and
address the root causes of illness and disease.
Thank you!
Tami Gouveia, MSW, MPH
Healthy Communities System Manager
978-722-2862
