PHC News Update

January Updates

New Year - New Brand! Join us on January 18th

We are introducing a new name and brand that helps us highlight what we bring to public health in the region. Change can be hard, but our new name isn't all that new-it says what we do and how the community and our stakeholders know us. Our old sun has evolved into a sun that evokes the collaborative, data-driven and process-oriented organization we are.

Please join us for our formal launch and a community update on our work January 18, 2018 , at 9:30 a.m., at the Community Music School of Springfield. Light food and refreshments will be provided.

Project ACCCES Winter Celebration - January 18

When: Thursday, January 18,2018 from 4 - 6 PM

Where: UMass Springfield Center in Tower Square located at 1500 Main Street, Springfield, MA 01115

(Hosted by the UMass Healthy Development Initiative & Center for Research on Families)

Please join us to:

Celebrate Project ACCCES’s successes building research partnerships to improve health equity
Hear how researchers have gotten connected to community partners
Hear how community partners are working with researchers to prevent youth substance use and address maternal prenatal stress and depression
Connect with other community organizations and researchers
Learn about community-engaged research in Springfield

Contact Haley Guhn-Knight with any questions or concerns at ProjectACCCCES@baystatehealth.org or 413-794-7892.

Learn more about Project ACCCES by visiting our website .

Protect Our Children and Grandchildren: Don't Roll Back the Clean Power Plan

The American Lung Association is leading an advocacy effort to oppose the EPA’s proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan, a lifesaving plan which would prevent 90,000 asthma attacks in children and 4,500 early deaths every year along with fighting climate change.

Closing coal power plants has already contributed to a decrease in particulate air pollution in Hampden County. Yet, Springfield and Holyoke still have asthma rates 2 and 3 times the national rate for children.

Please join on Parents/Grandparents in signing this letter urging Scott Pruitt not to repeal the Clean Power Plan. The Public Comment Period is open until January 16, 2018.

Springfield Schools to Launch Culinary and Nutrition Center

The city broke ground on the center on Dec. 13th, for a 62,000-square-foot facility to be built on Cadwell Drive in Springfield and should be fully operational before the start of the 2019-20 school year. The goal of the Springfield Schools’ Culinary and Nutrition Center is to serve Springfield public schools fresh meals, cooked from scratch as well as create a culinary job training center.

The $21 million project, funded through government and private sources, is being supported by several partners with an interest in food policy, such as the EOS Foundation, Trinity Health, Kendall Foundation, Partners for a Healthier Community, and other members of the Live Well Springfield Coalition, especially the Springfield Food Policy Council.

BusinessWest: Springfield Schools to Launch Culinary and Nutrition Center

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