MISSION HILL HEALTH MOVEMENT
Programs
Misson Statement
MHHM addresses the types of health issues that significantly impact not only our community but neighborhoods across the city and throughout the nation: obesity, diabetes, heart disease, air quality (and related health problems), mental health and depression. Other issues have been, and will be, addressed as they are identified as important to our membership and our community.
All program committees are open to any member of the community who would like to join us!
We also support the work of other small non-profit organizations by providing affordable rental space. Since 2004 we have owned a building at 1534 Tremont Street, directly across from the Mission Church. The building now houses four neighborhood-serving non profits at below market rents. Many other groups use our conference room and meeting space.
Air Quality / Asthma
The DSMG seeks to educate people with diabetes who are newly diagnosed as well as those who are dealing with the chronic, day-to-day challenges of living with diabetes.
Our meeting goals are to allow participants to explore ways to make their lives easier, relieving some of the stress that goes along with diabetes, thereby improving their health. By relieving stress, and gaining a deeper understanding of the disease and how to overcome it, one can avoid or delay secondary diseases associated with diabetes.
Our overall goal is to promote healthy life-style changes.
Healthy Eating / Obesity
In a collaboration between the MHHM and the Harvard School of Public Health, during the summer of 2007, six high school students participated in an air-quality survey. On a typical day, they went out on two two-hour shifts carrying instruments that measure different aspects of the air. For one of the hours in a shift, they walked a pre-designated route. For the other hour, they counted cars and logged traffic flow. There was also fixed site equipment that monitored the air around the Mission Hill Health Movement office at 1534 Tremont Street, and two automatic traffic counters that counted traffic in front of 1534 Tremont Street and on Huntington Avenue. Posters showing the results of this study can be seen at the MHHM office.
Health Education
Throughout 2010, with a Catalyst grant from the Harvard School of Public Health, the MHHM published a monthly column in the Mission Hill Gazette and presented a community workshop on a community health topic. We will be scanning and posting copies of those columns on this site. Beginning in the fall/winter of 2011, MHHM will again be submitting articles on timely health issues to the Gazette for publication, and offering quarterly workshops for the community.
Feet First
FEET FIRST meets every Thursday at 10 AM, rain or shine, at 1534 Tremont Street. Join us as we walk from Mission Hill through the Fens, to the Rose Garden, and back. Walks will terminate at the Brigham Circle Farmers Market from mid-June until the end of October.
Get healthy by walking and by eating fresh, local produce!
Contact us:
Office Hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM & at other times by arrangement.
1534 Tremont Street
Roxbury, MA 02120
Executive Director: Maggie Cohn
Email:maggiecohn@mhhm.org
General Email: contact@mhhm.org
TEL: 617-427-6919
FAX: 617-427-6920