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The Allston Brighton Health Collaborative convenes a network of people and organizations who work together to improve Allston-Brighton community health. ABHC network membership is free and open to anyone who lives in, works in, works on behalf of, or cares about Allston-Brighton. If you are aligned with our work, please join our network!
ABHC's newsletter distributes every other week.
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Our Resource Database includes youth and adult education programs, childcare locations, financial support for housing, mental health supports, and so much more. Take a look, bookmark, and send to a friend!
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ABHC Updates
Your ideas, our City, Boston's future!
ABHC has partnered with the City of Boston to make sure community members like YOU have more of a voice in how our city spends our money. It's called Participatory Budgeting, and we want to hear your ideas on how to spend $2 million in Boston.
Join one of our idea collection workshops to learn about how the process will work and make your voice count!
TONIGHT July 22, 6pm at Presentation School Foundation, 640 Washington St., Brighton
July 24, 5:30pm at Honan-Allston Library, 300 North Harvard St., Allston
July 30, 5:30pm on Zoom
Food, childwatch, and interpretation included!
Email Alex with any questions.
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Allston Brighton Is Changing A Lot!
ABHC is part of a team working with the City to create the first-ever community plan for all of Allston-Brighton!
We can’t get this right without YOUR input: What does AB need for the next 10 years? What is great about our community that we want to keep and grow?
To share your perspective and to learn more about why the Allston-Brighton Community Plan matters, check out a pop-up exhibit close to you between July 15th-26th, or head to this interactive StoryMap and share your feedback: bit.ly/ABCP-data-stories
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Upcoming Neighborhood Events
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Public Health News and Updates
ALLSTON-BRIGHTON
Boston Globe: Free community college. Fare-free regional transit. Shelter funding. Here’s what’s in the $58 billion budget deal.
WBUR: City adds affordable housing to Allston rehearsal space project
Boston Globe: Offering pause, a Jewish summer camp welcomes Israeli girls to Boston
Universal Hub: Oh, rats: Boston unveils new rat-attack plan
Boston Globe: Steward doesn’t own its hospitals’ real estate. So what, exactly, is for sale?
Boston Globe: It’s so hot. Are landlords legally obliged to provide air conditioning?
CommonWealth Beacon: MassDOT reverses course, includes $243m for I-90 Allston project in capital plan
Boston Globe: Interim leader Alan Garber is running Harvard without expiration date: ‘Pretty clear that there’s no search’
Income-Restricted Rental Opportunity: HEW at 1515 - 1525 Commonwealth Avenue, Brighton
470 and 470A Western Avenue housing project approved in Brighton
McKinney Playground - Sports Questionnaire
MA State Senate: Senate Passes Health Care Reform Boosting Safeguards Against For-Profit Entities
What kinds of spaces, programming, and activities do Boston’s older adults most want and need across the city?
Click here to take the survey in English.
Click here to take the survey in Spanish.
Click here to take the survey in Cape Verdean Creole.
Click here to take the survey in Haitian Creole.
Click here to take the survey in Vietnamese.
Click here to take the survey in Portuguese.
Click here to take the survey in Chinese.
Boston University Charles River Campus Institutional Master Plan (IMP)
Comment End Date August 05 2024
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Streetsblog Mass: This Heat Wave is a Car Dependency Problem
Boston Globe: Leaky pipes, cow burps, food scraps, and clay: In methane-reducing innovation, New England leads the way
Boston Globe: As city sizzles, these spaces serve as fleeting refuges
Boston Globe: As climate toll grows, FEMA imposes limits on building in flood plains
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EDUCATION
Boston Indicators Project Research: Empty Desks: The Growing Mismatch Between City and School Demographics in Boston
Boston Globe: Boston Public Schools plans to hire another consultant to help craft a school closure plan
Boston Globe: Appeals Court Blocks Biden’s Student Loan Repayment Plan, Causing Uncertainty
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EQUITY AND JUSTICE
Boston Globe: Massachusetts has the second highest cost of living in the country, new study says
Boston Globe: Boston outlines surveillance technology in first-ever transparency report
Boston Globe: Massachusetts moves closer to mandating employers to disclose salary ranges on job postings
Boston Globe: Nearly 100 Boston police officers made $100,000-plus in overtime alone in 2023
Boston Globe: ‘Data gaps’ limit understanding of how racial wealth gap affects generations differently
GBH News: Boston is changing how it collects data on disability
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FOOD ACCESS
Boston Globe: Earning your way off public assistance can be fraught. A new pilot program aims to provide a cushion.
Boston Globe: People on food assistance increasingly turn to grocery delivery. But not without a price tag.
Boston Globe: ‘There is tremendous fear.’ As Massachusetts farmworkers toil under brutal conditions, some push for legislative change
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HEALTHCARE
New York Times: Heat-Related Emergencies Are Soaring in the U.S. Can Hospitals Keep Up?
Boston Globe: Mass. forced medication bill sparks intense debate
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HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT
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MENTAL HEALTH
GBH News: Two years in, Massachusetts 988 mental health hotline has received more than 130,000 calls
BU School of Public Health Research: New Center Will Extend Behavioral Health Services to 126,000 Children in Massachusetts
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PUBLIC HEALTH
Boston Globe: Mass. lawmakers reach deal on gun bill that would regulate ghost guns, expand ‘red flag’ law
Boston Globe: In Boston, peace and anxious hope as gun violence plunges
WBUR: Boston gets $10 million to help close life expectancy gap between neighborhoods
Boston Globe: Why heat waves are dangerous for older people
BU School of Public Health: Scorching Summers: Heat Waves Trigger Surge in ER Visits
BU School of Public Health: The Price of a Mani-Pedi
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TRANSPORTATION & MOBILITY
Streetsblog Mass: Bluebikes Offers Free Rides During Red Line Shutdown
Boston Globe: Immigrant driver’s license law credited with surge in new applications
Boston Globe: Boston City Council discusses congestion pricing, hears expert testimony in hearing
Streetsblog Mass: New ‘Tap-to-Pay’ Tech Will Debut at T Stations and Buses In August
Boston Globe: MBTA audit reveals gaps in safety training, inspections
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