by Julie Burns | January, 2021 | Press Coverage
By The Bay State Banner Growing up in the Roxbury and South End neighborhoods, Yahaira Lopez is one of many who has cut through Clifford Park to get to Target and Stop & Shop. Now, she can’t bear to walk through it. The last time she did this past year, Lopez was...
by Julie Burns | December, 2020 | RIZE News
By Miriam Komaromy, MD Mr. J.W. was in the sitting room of the COVID Recuperation Unit in Boston Medical Center (BMC) when I met him. He was a restaurant worker who had lost his job when the surge of COVID infections hit Boston last spring. The friends who rented him...
by Julie Burns | October, 2020 | Press Coverage
By The Patriot Ledger This three-day series looks at how the Quincy Police Department’s Narcan program continues to save and change lives. Today: The ongoing coronavirus crisis has overshadowed an epidemic that has been killing Massachusetts residents for more than a...
by Julie Burns | October, 2020 | Press Coverage
By Lowell Sun LOWELL — The Life Connection Center — a community center offering meals and other support for those in need in Lowell — will get a $45,000 harm reduction grant from a non-profit foundation working to end the opioid overdose epidemic. RIZE Massachusetts...
by Julie Burns | October, 2020 | Press Coverage
By El Planeta RIZE Massachusetts, a nonprofit foundation working to end the opioid overdose epidemic in Massachusetts, announced Thursday, October 15, that it will invest nearly $ 1.1 million in grant programs designed to improve racial equity in healthcare and to...
