The Children’s Health Equity (CHEq) Initiative, a part of Boston Children’s Collaboration for Community Health, works to advance child health through place-based collective impact approaches. The CHEq Initiative supports collaborative projects within specific Boston communities to improve the health and well-being of children and families. The selected projects will foster new and long-lasting systems that promote and strengthen neighborhood cohesion.
This initiative has three phases:
- One-year planning grants were awarded to six neighborhood or geography-based, cross-sector collaboratives to plan projects with the potential to reduce inequities in children’s health and well-being.
- Following the planning period, implementation grants were awarded to four cross-sector collaboratives that demonstrate evidence of having strong implementation plans.
- We are now in the third phase of this initiative. A second round of three-year implementation grants were awarded to the same four collaboratives to continue and build upon their previous work.
Boston Children’s has continued to support the below four projects for phase three implementation grants. Each will implement their project to help improve the lives of children and families in their neighborhood. Initiatives will address either 1) child and family health and well-being or 2) community, family, and child resilience.
Learn about these coalitions and their work.
