Project

Healthy and Equitable Futures Initiative: Greater Rochester Health Foundation

The Greater Rochester Health Foundationâ€™s Healthy and Equitable Futures Initiative (HEF) hired ICH/LZC to work collaboratively with Parent Leader Facilitators (PLFs) and the HEF team on a participatory action research project to identify impactful systems-change work to advance health and racial equity in education and child outcomes. The evaluation team will provide technical assistance for the evaluation of train-the-trainer programming and will guide the development of a project evaluation plan to measure parent liberation, collective action, and systems change to advance equity in educational and other connected systems in Rochester.

Technical Assistance for Vital CxNs

The Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research (LZC) at the Institute for Community Health (ICH) is partnering with Vital CxNs on a six-month technical assistance project that will result in a comprehensive evaluation framework for Vital CxNs.

Strategic Planning with SomerViva: Office of Immigrant Affairs

LZC and ICH are facilitating a strategic planning process with the City of Somerville's SomerViva: Office of Immigrant Affairs (SOIA).

Evaluation of the City of Boston’s COVID-19 Immigrant Economic Recovery Initiative

LZC is the methodology and evaluation partner on the City of Boston's COVID-19 Immigrant Economic Recovery Initiative.

Evaluation of the Nutrition in Housing (NIH) program

LZC and ICH are conducting a mixed-methods evaluation of Nutrition in Housing (NIH), a pilot program from Share Our Strength - No Kid Hungry focused on integrating nutrition assistance and education in affordable housing sites.

Evaluation of MOIA’s Weaving Well-being Initiative

LZC is evaluating the City of Boston Mayor's Office for Immigrant Advancement's (MOIA) Weaving Well-being initiative. Weaving Well-being aims to support immigrant-serving community-based organizations in caring for their staff and providing non-clinical mental health services to their communities. The Weaving Well-being initiative follows a successful pilot in 2022, of which LZC was the evaluator.

Capacity Building for Asylum Medicine at CHA and Beyond

LZC is conducting a study of the Cambridge Health Alliance's Asylum Program's (CHAAP) asylum medicine residency elective in partnership with CHAAP and the Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy (CHEEA).

Bioethics in Community Health: Understanding Ethical Challenges of Community Health Centers

The Leah Zallman Center is working with The Hastings Center on a research study to explore the bioethical challenges that clinicians and staff face at community health centers across the country.

Strategies for Thawing the Chilling Effect: Increasing Understanding and Uptake of Public Benefits in Immigrant Communities

The Leah Zallman Center is partnering with No Kid Hungry to evaluate grants aimed at addressing food insecurity in immigrant communities and thawing the chilling effects of the public charge ruling.

Evaluation of the City of Boston Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement’s (MOIA) Immigrant Mental Health Initiative

The Leah Zallman Center is conducting a participatory evaluation of the City of Boston Mayor's Office for Immigrant Advancement's (MOIA) pilot initiative on advancing immigrant mental health.