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Policy to Practice: Local Public Health Transformation Under SAPHE 2.0

Policy to Practice: Local Public Health Transformation Under SAPHE 2.0

This webinar reviews how the local public health system in Massachusetts is evolving under SAPHE 2.0, with examples of local transformation funded by the Public Health Excellence Grant Program. Recommended audience: chief municipal officials
Health and Human ServicesWebinarfreePublication Date: Mar 03, 2026
Elevating Local Public Health With SAPHE 2.0

Elevating Local Public Health With SAPHE 2.0

This webinar provides an overview of the State Action for Public Health Excellence (SAPHE 2.0) program, reviews its impact on municipalities, and discusses other Department of Public Health initiatives to elevate local public health. Recommended audience: Health and safety municipal officials, chief municipal officials
Health and Human ServicesWebinarfreePublication Date: Dec 17, 2025
Planning and Partnering for Impact: Best Practices for Municipal Opioid Settlement Funds

Planning and Partnering for Impact: Best Practices for Municipal Opioid Settlement Funds

This webinar reviews best practices for municipalities getting started with their opioid settlement funds, including an example of working regionally from the Great Meadows Public Health Collaborative.
Community Health and WellnessWebinarfreePublication Date: Nov 19, 2025
From Resources to Relationships: Why Councils on Aging Matter

From Resources to Relationships: Why Councils on Aging Matter

This webinar provides an overview of the services provided by the Massachusetts Councils on Aging, including how MCOA supports the statewide Council on Aging network and examples of municipal collaboration. Recommended audience: chief municipal officials, all members
Health and Human ServicesWebinarfreePublication Date: Sep 25, 2025
Leveraging Arts and Culture for Substance Use Prevention and Recovery

Leveraging Arts and Culture for Substance Use Prevention and Recovery

This webinar discusses how communities can use opioid settlement funds for prevention and recovery services that involve arts and culture. Recommended audience: Chief municipal officials
Community Health and WellnessWebinarfreePublication Date: May 12, 2025
Opioid Settlement Funds: Key Components and Eligible Programs

Opioid Settlement Funds: Key Components and Eligible Programs

This webinar reviews issues and strategies related to the statewide opioid settlement fund. Recommended audience: Health and safety municipal officers, chief municipal officials
Health and Human ServicesWebinarfreePublication Date: Sep 26, 2024
ReiMAgine Aging: Planning Together to Create an Age-Friendly Future for Massachusetts (Year Three Progress Report)

ReiMAgine Aging: Planning Together to Create an Age-Friendly Future for Massachusetts (Year Three Progress Report)

Published by the Executive Office of Elder Affairs
Health and Human ServicesReportpdf - 5 MBPublication Date: Jun 06, 2022
Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19

Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19

Presented by MMA Human Services Council
Community Health and WellnessWebinarPublication Date: Apr 28, 2022
ARPA Funding for Human Services

ARPA Funding for Human Services

Presented by MMA Human Services Council
Health and Human ServicesWebinarPublication Date: Jul 29, 2021
COVID-19 Vaccine Education and Hesitancy

COVID-19 Vaccine Education and Hesitancy

Presented by MMA Human Services Council
Health and Human ServicesWebinarPublication Date: May 21, 2021
Age-Friendly Winter Spaces: Ideas for municipalities to embrace winter

Age-Friendly Winter Spaces: Ideas for municipalities to embrace winter

A collaboration between Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative, Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs and WalkBoston
Community Health and WellnessGuidancepdf - 3 MBPublication Date: Dec 22, 2020
ReiMAgine Aging: Planning Together to Create an Age-Friendly Future for Massachusetts

ReiMAgine Aging: Planning Together to Create an Age-Friendly Future for Massachusetts

2020: Year One Progress Report, published by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Health and Human ServicesReportpdf - 2 MBPublication Date: Jul 01, 2020
Elder Care During COVID-19

Elder Care During COVID-19

Presented by the MMA Human Services Council
Health and Human ServicesWebinarPublication Date: Jul 01, 2020
Dementia-Friendly Movement Seeks to Move People Out of the Shadows

Dementia-Friendly Movement Seeks to Move People Out of the Shadows

By Pam MacLeod, director of Dementia Friendly Massachusetts for the Executive Office of Elder Affairs, published in the MMA’s Municipal Advocate magazine, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2019
Health and Human ServicesArticlepdf - 393 KB
Q&A: Experts Explain Age- and Dementia-Friendly Movements in Massachusetts

Q&A: Experts Explain Age- and Dementia-Friendly Movements in Massachusetts

By James Fuccione, executive director of Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative, and Patty Sullivan, program director for Dementia Friendly Massachusetts, published in the MMA’s Municipal Advocate magazine, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2019
Health and Human ServicesArticlepdf - 300 KB
Age-Friendly Massachusetts: What It Is and Why It Matters

Age-Friendly Massachusetts: What It Is and Why It Matters

By Robin Lipson, chief strategy officer at the Mass. Executive Office of Elder Affairs, Mike Festa, state director for the AARP-Massachusetts, Nora Moreno Cargie, president of the Tufts Health Plan Foundation and Vice President of Corporate Citizenship for Tufts Health Plan and is a member of the Governor’s Council to Address Aging in Mass., David…
Health and Human ServicesArticlepdf - 636 KB
Around the State: Local Age-Friendly Efforts Provide Models for Success

Around the State: Local Age-Friendly Efforts Provide Models for Success

By Antron Watson, Age-Friendly Director for AARP Massachusetts, and Amanda Bernardo, Director of Policy at the Executive Office of Elder Affairs, published in the MMA’s Municipal Advocate magazine, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2019
Health and Human ServicesArticlepdf - 402 KB
Blueprint for Public Health Excellence: Recommendations for Improved Effectiveness and Efficiency of Local Public Health Protections

Blueprint for Public Health Excellence: Recommendations for Improved Effectiveness and Efficiency of Local Public Health Protections

Report of the Special Commission on Local and Regional Public Health, June 2019
Health and Human ServicesReportpdf - 12 MBPublication Date: Jun 27, 2019
NLC Report: Municipal Leadership For Chilldren and Families in Small and Mid-Sized Cities

NLC Report: Municipal Leadership For Chilldren and Families in Small and Mid-Sized Cities

Report from the National League of Cities at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 19, 2018
Health and Human ServicesReportpdf - 7 MB
Dealing with the 'Spillover Effect' of the Opioid Crisis

Dealing with the 'Spillover Effect' of the Opioid Crisis

Presentation by Chelsea Police Chief Brian Kyes at MMA Annual Meeting, January 19, 2018
Health and Human ServicesPresentationpdf - 5 MB
Addressing the Opioid Crisis in America: Strategies That Work

Addressing the Opioid Crisis in America: Strategies That Work

Notes and key points from The State Legislative Leaders Foundation conference, April 6-8, 2017 
Health and Human ServicesPresentationpdf - 178 KB
City of Lowell - Municipal Perspectives on Combatting the Opioid Crisis

City of Lowell - Municipal Perspectives on Combatting the Opioid Crisis

Presentation at 2017 MMA Annual Meeting by Corey Belanger, City Councillor, City of Lowell, January 20, 2017
Health and Human Servicespdf - 1 MB
An Overview of Bureau of Substance Abuse Services Prevention Programs

An Overview of Bureau of Substance Abuse Services Prevention Programs

Presentation at 2017 MMA Annual Meeting by Andrew Robinson, Prevention Program Manager, Mass Dept. of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Abuse Services, January 20, 2017
Health and Human Servicespdf - 4 MB
Municipal Strategies to Increase Food Access

Municipal Strategies to Increase Food Access

Collaboration between Department of Public Health, Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, Metropolitan Area Planning Council, Massachusetts Association of Health Boards, and Massachusetts Municipal Association. 123 pp.
Health and Human Servicespdf - 3 MB
An Obligation to Lead: Report of the MMA's Municipal Opiod Addiction and Overdose Prevention Task Force

An Obligation to Lead: Report of the MMA's Municipal Opiod Addiction and Overdose Prevention Task Force

Released Jan. 22, 2016
Health and Human Servicespdf - 356 KB
Guidelines for Establishing Veterans’ Services

Guidelines for Establishing Veterans’ Services

Presentation at 2015 MMA Annual Meeting by Claudia McKelway of the Department of Veterans’ Services., January 24, 2015
Health and Human Servicespdf - 156 KB
District Formation and the new Valor Act Law

District Formation and the new Valor Act Law

Presentation at 2015 MMA Annual Meeting by Steven Connor of Northampton, January 24, 2015
Health and Human Servicespdf - 2 MB
Substance Abuse Prevention

Substance Abuse Prevention

Presentation by Steve Keel, Prevention Services Director at the Department of Public Health’s Bureau of Substance Abuse Services, January 20, 2012
Health and Human Servicespdf - 3 MB
Communities Must Be Ready to Meet Changing Human Service Needs

Communities Must Be Ready to Meet Changing Human Service Needs

Article by New Bedford Mayor Scott Lang for the MMA’s Municipal Advocate magazine, 2011
Health and Human Servicespdf - 2 MB
Planning for the Unexpected: Maintaining Key Operations During a Pandemic

Planning for the Unexpected: Maintaining Key Operations During a Pandemic

By Barry Beder, Rachele Manning and Deborah Talbot, from the MMA’s Municipal Advocate magazine, Vol. 25, #1, 2009
Health and Human Servicespdf - 329 KB
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