REACH Coalition & Steering Committee

The CDC requires the creation of a REACH Coalition and Steering Committee to guide strategies and activities, identify areas for greatest impact, leverage resources, and monitor progress. The REACH Steering Committee is comprised of New Haven residents, our sub-contracted organizations, community partners, and existing coalitions; including the Healthier Greater New Haven Partnership and the New Haven Food Policy Council and their respective working groups.

There are six major ‘aims’ of the REACH Steering Committee:

#1 Strategic Guidance.
Guide and provide strategic input into specific project activities of REACH.

#2 Health Equity Communications.
Build awareness and make the case for health equity in conversations, partnerships, and collaborations across New Haven.

#3 Health Equity Partnerships.
Synergize health equity work among and within organizations, systems, and communities across New Haven.

#4 Racial Equity.
Intentionally shift organizational culture to address racial equity for the purpose of health.

#5 Community Ownership.
Ensure the community [the people] who is [are] most affected are ignited and supported in the projects most important to them (under the umbrella of REACH Aims) has [have] a dominant role in making decisions.

#6 Sustainability.
Take a four-pronged approach to sustainability, including but not limited to finding new funding sources, for our collective health equity and racial justice work in New Haven.

STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

Cortney Ahern Renton*, Executive Director, CitySeed

Billy Bromage*, Director of Community Organizing, Yale Program for Recovery & Community Health

Giselle Carlotta-McDonald, Executive Director, Project Access

Darcey Cobbs-Lomax, Director of Community Connections and Social Impact, Yale New Haven Health

Kenya Cox*, CARE Community Research Fellow

Ann Greene*, Community Research Liason, Yale National Clinician Scholars Programs

Holly Hacket, CARE Community Research Fellow

Nancy Hamson, Director, Strategy and Community Health Improvement, Yale New Haven Health

Susan Harris*, Witnesses to Hunger and New Haven Food Policy Council

Doug Hausladen*, Director, City of New Haven Transportation, Traffic, and Parking

Brooke Logan, Health Programs Director, New Haven Health Department

Karla Linquist, Deputy Director, City of New Haven Transportation, Traffic, and Parking

Ashley Kremser*, Director of Operations, CitySeed

Jason Martinez, Community Impact Director, United Way of Greater New Haven

Mellisa Pensa, Clinical Lead- Health Equity, Fair Haven Community Health Center

Jacquelyn Pheanious*, New Haven Health Leader

Natasha Ray, Program Director, New Haven Healthy Start

Dana Rogers, Assistant Professor of Communications, Southern CT State University

Brita Roy*, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director of Population Health, Yale School of Medicine

Myra Smith*, CARE Community Research Fellow

Latha Swamy*, Food Systems Policy Director, City of New Haven Community Services Administration

Marquita Taylor*, CARE Community Research Fellow

Brian Weeks, Epidemiologist, City of New Haven Health Department

CARE STAFF & CONSULTANTS:

Alycia Santilli*, Director, CARE

Kathleen O’Connor Duffany, Director of Research & Evaluation, CARE

Tekisha Everette, Executive Director, Health Equity Solutions

Devin Avshalom-Smith*, Community Engagement & Project Coordinator, CARE

Tom Ficklin*, Outreach Liaison, Ficklin Media

Sarah Gordon, Communications Coordinator, CARE

Amelia Reese Masterson*, Breastfeeding Project Coordinator, CARE

*New Haven Residents