Health Equity Zone

• Prevent diabetes in high risk individuals.
• To enhance health services, health promotion and prevention programs for adolescents in public schools.
• Assess availability and dissemination of information about culturally competent and culturally tailored health services.
• Expand HIV & HCV screening in clinical and behavioral health settings.
• Access to Behavioral Health Services in Primary Care settings.

• To effectively demonstrate the need for, and acceptability of creating more opportunities for residents to grow food in Central Falls and Pawtucket.
• To address the immediate need for increased access to affordable, high-quality fruit and vegetables in Pawtucket and Central Falls, by ensuring that all residents, regardless of status or ability to pay, have access to healthful food.
• Promote and increase adoption of nutrition guidelines in publicly accessible locations where food is being sold.

In June 2016 the Pawtucket/Central Falls Health Equity Zone Action Plan was launched at an event attended by our HEZ collaborative, valued community partners and residents. This action plan lays out a broadly supported and realistic strategy for improved health outcomes; identifies specific and achievable activities; specifies the necessary partners and resources; establishes lead actors for each actionable activity, sets time lines and milestones, and incorporates an accountability structure to keep the process moving forward. The plan includes a social marketing strategy to ensure that residents in the HEZ are aware of healthy choices and interventions. Follow the link below to view the action plan!

Action plan

• Increase support for homeless prevention and homeless services.
• Increase support for homeownership and healthy homes.
• Tenant Empowerment & Healthy Housing.
• Strengthen landlord accountability

• To increase opportunities for employment with a ladder of success.
• To increase opportunities for small and micro businesses.
• Build a community kitchen.
• Improve transportation linkages to jobs, job training and other opportunities.

• Increase access to clean, safe streets, sidewalks and bike paths for Central Falls and Pawtucket residents.
• To increase busing services or other transportation services to Central Falls and Pawtucket.
• Promote beautification of activity hubs in the Health Equity Zone.

• Facilitate positive relationships between the youth and elderly populations in Central Falls and Pawtucket.
• Establish a youth coalition that engages both the Mayor’s Youth Council of Central Falls and the Pawtucket Boys and Girls Club.
• Research resources and obtain private funding that are focused on alternative means of transportation that directly benefit the elderly and youth populations in Central Falls and Pawtucket.
• Establish a Task Force to research program overlaps that focus on youth, ages 14-18.