Moving forward in 2022, we will continue to educate communities and organize community-based vaccine clinics to ensure that children 5-11 years old are vaccinated and that all eligible people receive the vaccine through their booster dose. We will continue to partner with the City’s Department of Public Health, Boston Public Schools, Department of Health & Human Services and Office for Immigrant Advancement to reach all greater Boston immigrants and to build greater health equity in Boston.
While during Covid we have focused on Covid vaccine promotion, we will increase our work to provide other health equity supports to our communities, including voter registration, worker rights and policy initiatives, immigration advocacy and policy initiatives, housing advocacy, youth development support and health insurance enrollment, mental health supports and others. Groups provide these supports at vaccine clinics: staff that are experts in each issue attend clinics to provide education and support alongside the vaccine. They draw in families who seek the social or economic support otherwise to also get vaccinated.
We also want to promote the Covid and flu vaccines together – and supports related to them.