CCHE
What year was CCHE launched?
2019
What are one of the three buckets of Work?
Increase affordable housing
Improve rental conditions
Expansion of equitable homeownership
What town or city is the Intergenerational Social Connections project focused on?
Springfield
What is one source of air pollution?
Traffic/cars/planes/wildfires/factories/industry etc.
Can you name one of CCHE’s collaborative partners?
Arise for Social Justice, N2N, PVPC, PHIWM, Wayfinders, Common Wealth Murals, Blues Greens, Jazz Roots
Can you name one of TCI’s collaborative partners?
Square One or NNCC
Who provided the multi-year grant that funds the Intergenerational Social Connections project?
Point32Health
What placement on the list of Asthma Capital is Hampden County?
#4 Asthma Capitol
Can you state one of the ways CCHE achieved all their success?
Educating themselves
Speaking to city council members
Engaging the broader community
Collecting hundreds of signatures
What are one of the four areas identified in the CHNA?
Food Access & Security
Housing & Homelessness
Mental Health
Violence & Trauma
Which two age groups does Intergenerational Social Connections aim to connect?
Youth (middle & high school) and older adults (65+)
What does our air sensors measure?
PM 2.5
Can you name the initiative CCHE worked on that provided residents with an option of clean energy?
Community Choice Energy CCE – Green Municipal Aggregation
What are one of the four strategies used by the TCI committee in their work?
Access to Counsel
Springfield Housing Trust Fund
Office of Tenant Protections
Corporate Slumlord Accountability
What were the two most preferred activities across generations in the community survey?
Listening to music and spending time with family
Name one of the partners from the Healthy Air Network
LiveWell Springfield, PVAC, Yale, ReGreen, City of Springfield, City of Holyoke, Hitchcock Center, PHIWM, MAAP, HRIA, Nuestras Raices
Can you name one of the goals CCHE 2.0 set to achieve?
Supporting the full adoption of Community Choice Energy and educating the community about how it works.
Updating the Springfield Climate Action & Resilience Plan
Working with the City of Springfield to prepare for extreme heat and making sure community groups are part of the planning and response.
Hosting community resilience workshops on clean energy, extreme heat, and other climate-related impacts.
What is one of TCIs accomplishments?
Access to counsel
Springfield Housing Trust Fund
Housing resource fair
Fair housing & civil rights conference
Corporate landlord accountability
What month and year will the planning for a program pilot begin?
December 2025
Why are we at a disadvantage geographically for poor air quality?
We live in a valley