Community Teams

The Mission of the Hampden CHIP is to:

• Behavioral Health;

• Healthy Eating and Active Living;

• Primary Care, Wellness and Preventative Care;

• Public Safety, Violence and Injury Prevention.

Plan Implementation

In 2018, with funding from Baystate Health, PVPC and the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts (PHI) re-convened members of the Hampden CHIP Network to begin implementation of strategies presented in the 2017 CHIP. With a focus on health equity and the impacts of structural racism, the structure for the CHIP implementation eliminated the Health Equity working group and charged each of the other domain teams with reviewing their priority strategies with a health equity lens and an understanding of how these strategies disrupt health inequities caused by systemic racism.

Each Community Team meets monthly to discuss ways to track and implement selected strategies.