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We bid a fond farewell to Jeff Collins, MD, who leaves as CCHI's Medical Director to become the Medical Director for ConvenientMD Urgent Care, an urgent care business with practices in New Hampshire. During his five-year tenure with CCHI, Jeff
provided the Center with valuable community health counsel and insight. We offer Jeff best wishes on his new endeavor, and look forward to working with him on community health initiatives in his continuing capacity at the MGH Chelsea HealthCare Center Urgent Care.
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CCHI Leaders' Trip to Uganda is Rescheduled
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CCHI leaders Joan Quinlan and Sarah Oo will be joined by Dr. Dean Xerras of MGH Chelsea HealthCare Center on a trip to Uganda sponsored by the MGH Center for Global Health. The CCHI staff will visit the Mbarara University of Science and Technology and the Bugoye Community Health Center to observe community health work on the ground and to teach on aspects of community health work from Chelsea and CCHI. The group's trip to Uganda in the fall was postponed due to an outbreak of Marburg Hemmoragic Fever. Watch for updates from the group on our
Facebook and Twitter pages.
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Greetings!
Presenting the January 2013 edition of CCHI Enews.
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Revere CARES to Sponsor Opiate Overdose Summit
 From 2002 to 2008, 4,500 Massachusetts residents died from opiate-related overdoses, and communities north of Boston have been particularly hard hit. The Revere CARES coalition, CCHI, the communities of Revere, Saugus and Winthrop and others will hold a free, regional summit, North Shore Opiate Overdose Crisis, to raise awareness and to share examples of community strategies to decrease opiate use and abuse. If you are interested in attending this summit on Thursday, January 31 beginning at 9:30am at the Kowloon Restaurant on Route 1 north in Saugus, please RSVP to cmsugarman@partners.org
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Parent Resources Available in Revere
Revere CARES has posted online resources in English and Spanish to help parents talk to their adolescents about drug and alcohol use. Audio conversations, transcripts, and expert advice on starting a conversation, setting ground rules, and what to do when your child needs help are available through http://reverecares.org/conversations-for-prevention/
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Drug Court Launches in Charlestown
A Drug Court, supported by the Charlestown Substance Abuse Coalition and staffed by CSAC community outreach worker Shannon Lundin, began operating in the Charlestown District Court. Drug courts sentence individuals convicted of drug violations to treatment as an alternative to prison. The sentence includes intensive court supervision, mandatory drug testing, substance-abuse treatment, and other social services as an alternative to adjudication or incarceration. A U.S. Department of Justice drug court study found that the program significantly reduces both crime and drug use.
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Revere Wins National Awards for Healthy Eating/Active Living
 Revere On the Move (ROTM) is a citywide initiative to make policy and environmental changes so that healthy eating and active living are easier choices to make. Recently,, ROTM's Julie DeMauro led more than 620 youth in this year's national Walk to School Day. In addition Revere won eight medals from the National League of Cities for work carried out in partnership with Revere CARES, Mass General Hospital and ROTM. Programs such as Adopt a Park, the Revere Beach Farmers' Market, the Revere Urban Trail, Revere's First Community Garden and Walk to School are all part of ROTM. ________________________________________________________________
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All Chelsea Elementary Schools Have Daily Physical Activity
Two more Chelsea elementary schools now have classroom-based daily physical activity breaks throughout the day. Teachers have been trained to build up to 20 minutes of daily physical activity in the first year, and 30 minutes in the second year. Working in collaboration, the Chelsea schools and the Healthy Chelsea Coalition aim for 75 percent of the elementary school classrooms to have 30 minutes of physical activity by January 2014. This initiative is funded by the Olivia's Organics Foundation.
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MGH Departments Offer Opportunities for Youth
This month the 10th grade MGH Youth Scholars are tracking their steps by wearing pedometers, through a program with the Partners Center for Connected Health. The 11th graders will take part in a training module with the MGH Knight Nursing Center and the Department of Anesthesia, and begin a 10-week SAT prep with Kaplan Learning Services. The 12th graders are putting the final touches on their college applications. We welcome 31 9th graders from Boston, Chelsea and Revere to the MGH Youth Scholars program. They will begin their inquiry-based curriculum with an introduction to MGH along with college readiness workshops.
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Healthy Beginnings Provides Home Visiting in Chelsea
 Healthy Beginnings
provides home visiting services to vulnerable, high risk mothers and families in Chelsea, and embeds child development specialists into well-child pediatric visits for newborns to 3-year-olds. In the program's first year, the home visitors and child development specialists visited 54 high risk new mothers speaking seven different languages. For example Fadumo Hirsi speaks Somali and Swahili. And in Chelsea and Revere, 800 first time parents met with a child development specialist at well-child Pediatric visits.
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