Vital Village Networks (VVN) works to solve intractable social inequities in health and educational outcomes by building local community capacity to promote health and wellbeing through peer-led, community-driven strategies, research, data- sharing, and collective action. The Vital Village neighborhoods of focus: Dorchester, Mattapan, and Roxbury have the highest percentages of children aged 0-5 years old, 20%, 11%, and 11% respectively, and have the highest concentration of children living in poverty within all of Massachusetts (42%). VVN place-based, community engagement network mobilizes collective investment from residents, community organizations and institutions to seed scalable and sustainable community change around child protection and promoting healthy social and emotional development in early childhood.

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