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From YouTube: Committee on Public Health on August 4, 2021
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Docket #0811 - Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Four Hundred Eighty Thousand Dollars ($480,000.00) in the form of a grant, awarded by BOSTON CHNA-CHIP COLLABORATIVE, to be administered by the Office of Health & Human Services
A
The
boston
community
health
needs
assessment
or
chna,
and
the
community
health
improvement
plan,
which
is
chip
collaborative,
have
awarded
this
grant,
which
will
fund
a
citywide
community
health
needs
assessment
and
community
health
improvement
plan
process.
That
plan
would
provide
a
detailed
roadmap
of
achieving
racial
and
ethnic
health
equity,
with
recommendations
for
action
and
partnership
on
each
of
these
priorities,
those
priorities
being
housing,
affordability
and
access,
economic
mobility,
mental
health
and
behavioral
health
and
accessing
services.
B
A
B
B
The
work
process
that
is
expected
of
the
community
health
centers
and
the
hospitals
and
and
local
board
of
health
and
public
health
commission,
and
through
this
needs
assessment
they
in
this
process.
They
essentially
determine
what
the
needs
are
in
the
area
and
they
come
up
with
a
plan
for
how
to
address
those
and,
historically
and
typically
what
they
do.
B
B
There
is
a
website
that
that
gives
a
little
more
background
and
and
talks
about
the
principles
and
values,
and
I
encourage
people
to
look
at
it
because
there
was
so
much
work
that
went
into
it
and
the
boston
collaborative
had
a
set
of
principles
and
they're
outlined
and
include
cbo's
stakeholders,
community
health,
centers,
hospitals,
and
so
through
that
process.
Again
they
came
together
and.
B
So
by
now
we
should
have
been
in
the
place
where
we
would
be
implementing
the
plan
and
have
hired
staff
and
we're
hoping
to
be
able
to
catch
up
on
a
timeline,
and
so
that's
what
this
grant
is
essentially
is
to
be
able
to
hire
staff
to
implement
the
plan
that
came
out
of
this
process.
That
has
been
you
know
several
years.
B
B
The
role
of
hhs
in
this
is
gonna,
as
I
mentioned,
that
we'll
hire
a
couple
of
staff
that
are
gonna
be
obviously
boston.
Employees
they'll,
be
working
with
hhs
and
hhs,
in
collaboration
with
the
syrian
committee,
will
on
a
high
level
work
to
derive
the
plan
implement.
It
will
also
be
part
of
the
student
committee
as
well
as
this
public
health
consumer
continuity
on
the
health
congress,
student
committee
of
the
collaborative
and
we'll
provide
guidance
on.
B
B
Those
are
the
ud
partnership.
Is
that
having
this,
this
hhs
as
the
backbone
provides
an
opportunity
for
broader
reach
with
the
church,
broader
accountability,
because
we're
able
to
do
all
of
our
departments,
all
of
the
city
departments,
city
partnerships,
stakeholders,
engage
all
of
our
constituencies,
leverage
our
expertise,
leverage
our
partnerships.
B
A
B
A
Back
to
me
on
that,
that's
perfectly
fine.
I
don't
have
any
other
questions.
Obviously
this
is
a
great
thing,
so
I'm
going
to
support
and
recommend
its
passage.
So
I
just
appreciate
you
being
here
to
present
to
the
public
sort
of
what
this
money
is
and
where
it's
going
and
if
any
counselor
sends
me
some
questions
I'll,
send
it
over
at
that
point,
but
thank
you
so
much
today,
mata.