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PARTNERS | HEALTHY CITY | HOW HEALTHY | VISION | SUMMIT | PRIORITIES | FUNCTIONS | CITY OF FALL RIVER |
The
Conservation Law Foundation (CLF)
received a two year planning grant from the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation to collect baseline data and design a
longitudinal research study that will measure the impact of
environmental conditions, particularly mixed-income, mixed-use, transit
oriented real estate development (“TOD”) projects, on health in nine
Eastern Massachusetts neighborhoods. The research study
will track environmental
conditions and health in neighborhoods targeted for investment in such
TOD projects compared to environmental conditions and health in control
neighborhoods with similar demographics, built environments and health
outcome characteristics over a five- to ten-year period. The study tracks neighborhood changes across multiple domains to include economic,
social, behavioral, environmental, and health outcome indicators. Taken
together, these indicators can help predict and track neighborhood
change over time, and provide important new insights about the
connections between the built environment, opportunity, behavior, and
health. |
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(Top row) Saint Anne's Hospital Community Benefits Coordinator Tracy Ibbotson talks with Greater New Bedford United Way Vice-President of Community Impact and Operations Allison Yates-Berg and Southcoast Health Community Benefits Manager Kerry Mello as YMCA Southcoast Project Leader Gail Hartnett Rodrigues, center, talks with the Fall River surveyors and Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) Research Assistant Annika Nielsen passes out copies of the report. (Middle row) CLF Director of Research and Partnerships Vedette Gavin begins her review of the project by asking for a show of hands regarding participants' familiarity with the study. (Bottom row) Fall River Flint Neighborhood Surveyors Eric Andrade, Amy Blanchette and Katrina Benner listen to the report before Eric gives some feedback to YMCA Southcoast President and CEO James Scherer and others in the group. |
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