Children and Family Focused Food is Medicine Programs

Food insecurity, sometimes called low or very low food security, is a leading cause of health related issues among Americans. While inflation nationally has contributed to higher food costs, the minimum wage in Massachusetts has not changed since January 2023, at $15 an hour. In recent years, initiatives have been put in place to combat food insecurity to […]
2023 Child Health Equity Summit

Join us for the 2023 Child Health Equity Summit. The mission of the Child Health Equity Center is to advance child health equity locally, nationally, and globally — particularly for children who have been most disadvantaged by poverty and systemic racism — through novel and groundbreaking research and programs that transform healthcare systems and public […]
Understanding & Addressing Child Trauma
The Collaborative Problem-Solving model (CPS) emphasizes “children do well because they can.” This contrasts with the more common belief that “children do well because they want to” (Massachusetts General Hospital, 2021). When this model was first introduced to me as a Mental Health Specialist (MHS), I did not understand the importance of these words. It […]
Preterm Birth
$26 billion. You can purchase a lot with $26 billion: 74 billion twinkies, 108,565 average sedans, or 26 billion cans of Arizona Iced Tea. For Americans, $26 billion is the amount of money spent annually on preterm birth. Many factors go into having a preterm birth, such as genetics, prenatal care, and environmental conditions. But […]
Training Pediatricians to be Trauma-Responsive
Heather Forkey, MD, Child Health Equity Center Core Faculty, and colleagues recently published findings from implementing an adapted national evidence-informed childhood trauma and resilience promotion curriculum. Despite the high prevalence of childhood trauma, a majority of physicians report a gap in knowledge concerning trauma identification and response.1.2 Educating future pediatricians to be trauma-responsive providers is […]