Last month, we hosted our first meeting for the Massachusetts Community Healthy and Healthy Aging project. The meeting, which took place at Birdhouse in Amesbury Massachusetts, marked the beginning of a collaboration between Sahiyo, The US End FGM/C Network, and UMass Chan Medical School, and was held to discuss project aims, goals, and timeline for the first year of project implementation.
Through the funding provided by The Massachusetts Community Health and Healthy Aging project, our team will work towards building a comprehensive network of stakeholders and service providers who can implement a coordinated, systems-based approach to addressing FGM/C over the course of five years. Our goal is to improve health outcomes for survivors of FGM/C, with a special focus on survivors who are people of color. Additionally, we will work to prevent FGM/C among future generations by increasing resources to overcome obstacles we often face, such as lack of awareness among service providers regarding FGM/C.
Along with our partner organizations we’re grateful to The Massachusetts Community Health and Healthy Aging Funds for their support of this critical issue.
To learn more about this project, please visit: https://mahealthfunds.org/