Randolph Community
Wellness Project

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In January 2020, the Town of Randolph and MAPC published a Community Wellness Plan—an action plan for improving public health in Randolph, based on data and community feedback.

Get Involved

Now it’s time to put the vision outlined in that plan into action. Join us to improve health and equity in Randolph, and to realize the wellness plan’s vision:

The future Randolph is healthy. All Randolph residents have the opportunity to be healthy and thrive without being disadvantaged by their race, ethnicity, income or other social factors. The Town’s residents, community groups, and leaders are engaged and empowered in acting together toward a shared vision of community health and racial equity articulated in the Randolph Community Wellness Plan. There is sustained capacity for coordinated and strategic action toward improving community health and health equity.

Join us! Interested in partnering us or joining a working group? Email us to learn more.

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Updates & Events

Rep. Ayanna Pressley Secures $1 million in Funding for School-Based Community Health Center at Randolph High School

The Town of Randolph will receive $1 million to support development of a school-based community health center through federal Community Project Funding. Funding will support renovation and construction costs to build the health center at Randolph High School.

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What Are We Doing?

We’re taking action on the goals and recommendations from the Randolph Community Wellness Plan, prioritizing three goals chosen as most critical by community members:

Community

Randolph is a safe and welcoming town that celebrates its unique diversity, encourages civic participation, and connects neighbors.

Community recommendations we are working on now:

Identify barriers, solutions, and pathways to increased participation and leadership by immigrant residents in municipal and school decision-making.

Institute municipal and school policies that promote a multilingual culture in all activities, ensuring that materials and communication are in Vietnamese, Haitian Creole, and other primary languages spoken in Randolph, in addition to English.

Establish programs to support resident-led, municipally-supported projects to make Randolph’s neighborhoods and streets more connected, safer, cleaner, and more vibrant.

Schools

Randolph Public Schools promote student and staff health and engagement.

Schools recommendations we are working on now:

Establish a wellness committee comprised of school, health, and community representatives that will guide the revision, adoptions, and implementation plan of the Randolph Public School Wellness Policy.

Ensure that students have enough healthy food during school, after school, and at home.

Develop school-based health centers that give students and the community access to health care at schools. This puts students in a better position to learn and overcome transportation barriers. This complements the health care and public health recommendations.

Health Care & Public Health

Randolph residents have access to affordable, accessible, and culturally competent preventive care and medical treatment.

Health care & public health recommendations we are working on now:

Facilitate development of a Federally Qualified Health Center.

Continue to build on the Public Health Department’s capacities and functions. Increase capacity through expanding funding and health department staff capable of enforcing health and other codes, providing inspectional services, and providing population and community health services. Sustain ongoing work in Environmental Health, Community Health, and Public Health Emergency Preparedness, and expand community health functions of the department to include facilitating the implementation of the Randolph Community Wellness Plan.

Support Mental Health First Aid training: Toward providing community support to individuals in Randolph with mental health issues, continue to support Mental Health First Aid training for Randolph Police and explore participation by the Randolph Police, Fire, Health, Veterans Services and other Departments in a program such as the One Mind Campaign, which uses coordinated training, partnerships, and response protocols to support individuals in mental health crisis.

How Are We Doing It?

The Randolph Community Wellness Plan explicitly seeks to meet the needs of those most impacted by chronic disease and poor health outcomes: immigrants, youth, and older adults. These groups will act as advisors to help guide solutions that promote health equity.

Backbone Partners

Provide overall coordination and administration.

Steering Commitee

Provide overall strategic direction.

Working Groups

Four working groups act to accomplish strategies around each priority goal.

Partner Organizations

Partner organizations will provide key insights into implementation activities.

Partner organizations will periodically provide support in their areas of expertise, which could include housing; transportation; education; food systems; open space, parks, and recreation; diversity, equity, and inclusions; community engagement and civic participants; health care; or public health. Partner organizations include Randolph-based groups as well as state and regional entities.

Click here to see our partner organizations.

The Plan

The Randolph Community Wellness Plan was conducted through a two-year planning process from 2018 to 2020. The Town of Randolph partnered with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council and worked with community members to identify community health issues, assets, and needs.

The plan included goals and recommendations in eight categories:

Implementation

Community

Health Care & Public Health

Plan Principles

Design and implement the initiative with a priority placed on equity

Include community members in the collaborative

Recruit and co-create with cross-sector partner

Use data to continuously learn, adapt, and improve

Cultivate leaders with unique systems leadership skills

Focus on program and system strategies

Build a culture that fosters relationships, trust, and respect across participants

Customize for the Town of Randolph.

Download Full Plan

Download Plan Summary: English

Download Plan Summary: Haitian Creole

Download Plan Summary: Spanish

Download Plan Summary: Vietnamese

The Data

Demographics

Most households (70%) in Randolph are family households

60% of Randolph residents are people of color, more than double the state average

Nearly one-third of residents are foreign-born, with Vietnamese and Haitian residents making up the largest portion of first-generation residents.

Randolph's median income is lower than Massachusetts and Norfolk County. Nearly half of public primary and secondary students are economically disadvantaged, compared to 32% statewide.