• Shannon Community Safety Initiative: Massachusetts Statewide Research Partner

    The Senator Charles E. Shannon Community Safety Initiative supports regional and multi-disciplinary approaches to combat gang violence through coordinated programs for prevention and intervention. These multi-disciplinary approaches include, but are not limited to, law enforcement initiatives such as anti-gang task forces and targeting of enforcement resources through the use of crime mapping; focused prosecution efforts;…

  • Trauma and Housing Stability

    The Community Builders (TCB) is a nonprofit developer, owner and manager of affordable and mixed-income housing. Community Life is TCBs place-based model that provides stable and healthy housing as a platform for residents and neighborhoods to address some of the most significant challenges facing low-income populations through six key practice areas: youth development, education, workforce…

  • Shannon Community Safety Initiative: Worcester Local Action Research Partner

    The Senator Charles E. Shannon Community Safety Initiative (Shannon CSI) supports regional and multi-disciplinary approaches to combat gang violence through coordinated programs for prevention and intervention. These multi-disciplinary approaches include, but are not limited to, law enforcement initiatives such as anti-gang task forces and targeting of enforcement resources through the use of crime mapping; focused…

  • Safe and Successful Youth Initiative 2025

    The City of Worcester was awarded funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Safe and Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI) to continue providing services that support young men and women aged 17-24 who are likely to be perpetrators or victims of serious violence. The Worcester Department of Health & Human Services, Worcester Police Department and other partners…

  • Boston Children’s Collaboration for Community Health

    The Community Builders (TCB) is a nonprofit developer, owner and manager of affordable and mixed-income housing. Through engagement with property management and staff, health providers, and residents, this project will implement the Boston Children’s Collaboration for Community Health and facilitate the efforts of TCB and its partners to improve the quality, timeliness, and holistic care…

  • Equity from the Start: Data to Improve Community Conditions Shaped by Structural Racism

    High quality early education and care (EEC) ensures “equity from the start” by allowing families to work while also providing infants and young children with enriching environments for brain, body, and social development. The Child Opportunity Index (COI) centers equity and makes structural racism visible by measuring and mapping the conditions and quality of resources…