The Grand Rising Workgroup Meets on the fourth Wednesday of every month from 3:30-5:00.

Minutes from meetings for 2021 onward and agendas for upcoming meetings can be found HERE.

Co-Chairs:

Shaundell Diaz
Matt Allen
Lee Collins-Lambert

Staff Contacts:

Kat Allen
she/her
kallen@frcog.org
413-774-3167, ext 119

Rachel Stoler
she/her
rstoler@frcog.org
413-774-3167, ext 121

What We Do

The Communities That Care Coalition’s Grand Rising Workgroup brings together coalition and community members with a common interest in improving youth health and well being for all youth and reducing preventable health disparities by race and ethnicity. 

The goals of the Workgroup are: 

• To ensure that the makeup of the Coalition and Coalition leadership reflects the makeup and experiences of the community we serve.
• To increase understanding among Coalition participants of the role that historical and current discrimination plays in health disparities.
• To identify and lead new coalition strategies to improve health and wellbeing for people of color from a systems level.